Project News: ALAS Residency

Today I started a residency at the Matt Roberts Arts Gallery in Vyner Street, East London. ALAS, the Artist-Led Art Society, has been established by Matt Roberts Arts as a means of sharing knowledge about professional contemporary arts practice. Successful applicants will attend lectures and receive one-to-one tuition while creating new work, which will be shown in an exhibition at the new Matt Roberts Arts Gallery (previously Nettie Horn / Vilma Gold) in November 2012.

Matt Roberts Arts is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 to create opportunities for artists in new locations and contexts. I will be pursuing this professional development programme on a part-time basis from June until the scheme ends in November. The exhibition, a group show of all ALAS residents' work, will open on Thursday 8th November 2012.

Sketches

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketches (2012),  Acrylic and Graphite

Sketches: Digital Drawings

Charley Peters, Untitled Digital Drawing (2012)

Charley Peters, Untitled Digital Drawing (2012)

These digital drawings are based on a series of intuitive drawings in sketchbooks that have been developing over the past months. Taking line drawings, such as those shown below, as a starting point, layers of colour and tone are built up digitally to mimic the process of painting over and around masked areas that has been explored in the studio recently.

Charley Peters, Untitled Drawings (2012)

Studio Views: Unique Inkjet 'Drawings'

Charley Peters, SEcretion (CMYK) (2012), Unique Inkjet Prints on Paper

Above are part of a series of 'drawings' made on an inkjet printer by scanning digitally drawn lines in cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The drawn lines are moved intuitively during the scanning process, causing movement and shifts in scale across the prints. Each colour is then printed systematically on top of the previous one, each output is unique and produced by chance.

Project News: A Message to... Marfa

Marfa, Texas, located at 30°18′43″N 104°1′29″W

TBC members Laura Davidson, Charley Peters and Beverley Bennett are currently working together on a collaborative project, A Message To... Marfa. Marfa is a town in the desert of West Texas, founded in the early 1880s as a railroad water stop. Marfa Army Airfield was located east of the town during World War II and trained several thousand pilots before closing in 1945, the abandoned site still being visible 16km east of the town. In 1956 the film Giant was filmed in Marfa, famously the last film featuring James Dean, who died before filming was completed. The city is now best known for housing Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation, occupying more than 10 buildings and permanently exhibiting work by artists including Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Richard Long and Roni Horn. 

A Message To... Marfa involves Peters and Bennett, in London, providing Davidson with a list of instructions for actions that she must undertake in Marfa. These actions will generate material that Davidson will send back to Peters and Bennett, which they will curate and interpret to generate a remote 'drawing' of Marfa. The project will be realised over the next two months, and published online shortly afterwards.

Sketch: Paint on Paper

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketch (2012), Acrylic on Paper

Sketch: Wood and Tape

Charley Peters, Untitled Sketch (2012), Wood, Electrical Tape and Wall