Written After completing a 3 month artists’ residency in Berlin March to June 2014
Some things I have learnt
1. I will again never apologize for using the male nude as the major
subject of my work. In the history of art it has been one of the most important
subjects across the Greek Roman and Renaissance times and through religious art
in such subjects as the Crucifixion, The Baptism of Christ and the
Resurrection.
2. I will go multimedia, go mixed media - keep drawing keep
photographing but exploring video and written narrative
3. I will comment more on the process of what I do, demonstrate the
process, play with the process, explore the process, subvert the process -make
explicit the controversial and edgy aspects of my work for example the sexual attraction, money,
body image, exhibitionism and shame-overcome of the model procurement process
4. I will bring all my history, all my skills and knowledge from social
work business and literature from whatever discipline I have worked into my work
5. I will not be afraid of eroticism in my art but I will transform it
into something more than porn!
6. From now on my exhibitions will be different, they must include a
performative element and a multimedia one. I must signal that I am to be taken
seriously as a contemporary artist, even as I reference the history of art and
religious imagery
