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A Fussy Ball of Intensity: Chloe Cumming thinks about how to be a painter
http://chloepaintings.squarespace.com/
Chloe sifts the culture she encounters to reveal purposes for painting. She likes wrestling, cartoons, old computer games⦠sheâs not into having her canon of knowledge dictated by institutions. Painters she likes include Samuel Palmer, Rembrandt.
- Added on: May 17th, 2006
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Recent Posts
The Suede Project Continues Somewhat
Further Suede thoughts This I wrote in a the comments section of my other blog, accidentally leaking out the thought I was trying to save for later: 'A funny part of the charm of Suede is that they WEREN'T 'originals'... they were hailed as heroes ...
Writing hastily about Suede.
Hello. I am pregnant, and I haven't got a job any more. I am a pregnant artist, and maybe I'll do some writing. I have no real obsessions at the moment, I'm a bit emotionally normal, but I have been thinking on the power of memories, not least for...
An email I sent to Sarah
Hello Sarah, You said to say something about my life just now. My job is quite a nice break from the intensities of being an artist and the pressure I put on myself sometimes, and it's nice to be out in the town with the other people a...
Meeting Mick
So, in late November last year, exactly more or less a month before Christmas, I trundled off by myself to Birmingham in order to meet Mick Foley. And I have intended to write an account of it ever since. It was bitterly cold that morning, and I w...
A groped-for mesh of entanglements in search of love and light
So following on from the last one... I suddenly realised it was quite ironic me being all cynical about the elevation of obsession as an arbiter of value, because my work, and my arting mind, is pretty consistently obsessive. Even if I'm not 100% obs...
Being obsessive enough to win a prize
I made this positive decision to enter the Jerwood Drawing Prize. When I think about my raw abilities, I think: I could win one of those bastards, and it's worth a shot. But then when I began to try and calculate the best approach to take to register...
