Danny MayCreativity uncertainty. By Ben Lloyd. Last summer in Danny May’s shed-gallery installation at the Centre for Alternative Technology, we had found ourselves discussing art process rather than product, and agreeing on non-objective creative tasks for ourselves. Our aim was to freely experiment, to see what happened and where that took Continue Reading »
Newfangled Spanner This artwork considers the experience of an ordinary person. This person, imagined in a garden shed or toy-room, tries to make sense of the world through his drawings and toy-like assemblages. These hobby ‘projects’ enable him to better cope with and relate to the technological and incomprehensible objects Continue Reading »
Each construction was based on play with a loose direction, then the installation was photographed and dismantled and we started again from scratch. The whole process took part in this shed purpose built by Danny and installed in the grounds of the Centre for Continue Reading »
I’m looking forward to this exciting trying-it-out stage and have load of questions. In this post I aim to come up with questions that may help realise the project more successfully, they don’t necessarily need answers. As I understand it, you have made a small wooden room in which to stage a Continue Reading »
This blog-post forms a part of an Arts council funded ‘Research and Development’ project. The artists involved are Daniel May, working in collaboration with the artist Ben Lloyd This project is sponsored by The Arts Council of Wales
The constructed containing space of the cage or cell of modern art is what comes to mind following your blogposts ‘Portable gallery’ and ‘The Frame’ Danny. I know you are really into Louise Bourgeois so it got me wondering why you are into her art and in particular why she made Continue Reading »
A cube, seen as a room or cage or frame surrounding or containing something is a common device in art. Perhaps originally it stems from a desire for control over chaos. A frame is an ultimate series of straight lines. Nature ‘framed’ is generally more appealing than wilderness. The parts Continue Reading »
I have spent the last week building a demountable and portable gallery / play room / cell. One more week then it will be completed. Next, what to fill it with.. This blog-post forms a part of an Arts council funded ‘Research and Development’ project. The Continue Reading »
My main intention during this project is create something that is able to versatile, able to change. An art ‘vessel’ which is not just a statement or an end in itself, but which can be used as a tool to consider new ways of making and presenting work. A important Continue Reading »
