Birmingham
steve coel
Birmingham
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going, as they say, with the flow
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Painting + Photography Projects/Proposals - Steve Coel. Selected images on rotation: Ingot Studios (Gallery), Birmingham.
Solva - Croft Series
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Photo Book and Postcard Book - POA.
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Ingot Studios
Birmingham
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Postcard
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Poster
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brics sigledig
lying around in the studio, as you do
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time in the studio is always time well spent.
always.
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put on rotation this week.
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Documentary Fiction Photography - UnEven Street
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an empty street. empty community.
no-one left to be nostalgic.
so it doesn't even exist as a memory anymore.
in the studio we talk about this a lot.
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Anwastad Strydoedd [ UnEven Street ]
Documentary Fiction Photography
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Ingot Studios
Birmingham
Ingot Studios
Birmingham
Cais Archif
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These pictures are examples from two of my previous extended
series of abstract urban picture projects.
I still like to keep several on rotation in the studio.
In large poster format [ AO ] they quite effectively work in a
wide range of unusual, even 'alternative', internal and
external environments.
Thanks for the request.
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arbrofion gweledol / lliw - 2015 / 2016
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picture making = spontaneity + intuition + improvisation +
experimentation.
the street art manifesto plays a role here too.
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arbrofion gweledol / lliw - 2015 / 2016
Penarth [ Diptych - 2015 ]
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Penarth [ Diptych - 2015 ]
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two v. large pictures.
possibly the starting point for the current project.
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arbrofion gweledol / lliw - 2015 / 2016
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'...recent studio work has become focused on tensions in my
images made by marks, smears and motifs that emerge
during the picture making process.
...these I then more often or not, remove and remake.'
images made by marks, smears and motifs that emerge
during the picture making process.
...these I then more often or not, remove and remake.'
[ interview: steve coel, 2016 ]
sometimes, it seems to me, i feel i am saving pictures rather than
creating them.
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Ynys-Lochtyn : ogofau mor [ 2016 ]
Ynys - Lochtyn : ogofau mor [ 2016 ]
1 [ 2016 ]
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4 [ 2016 ]
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without quite knowing why, i sometimes lock onto an abstract idea
and just keep returning to it.
west wales can do that to you.
west wales can do that to you.
these really large sketches are part of a series that i'm using as
i prepare for an even larger picture.
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more is less [ 2016 ]
more is less [ 2016 ]
anwastad strydoedd [ illustration ]
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i'd guess that practically all the art seen by most people today
are reproductions of the original and that most of that is seen on-
line.
this question of encountering the original is not new. but seeing
the original through posters, books, postcards etc., asks questions
about the experience.
in my pictures i focus primarily on reproduction and an expectation
that my audience recognise this.
lavernock point / penarth [ 2016 ]
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this to other artists?
the process of picture making has changed in the last few decades
and so has the audience.
reproduction is now the original experience of the picture by the
audience.
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less is more. An 11.59 Publication
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less is more.
having spent a period creating pictures that i increasingly
felt uncomfortable with i felt i really needed to break away and
make pictures that were more spontaneous, intuitive, abstract,
even improvised.
struck by both the attitude and approach to creativity of Billy
Childish, it got me thinking.
so recently i've been trying to remove the possibility of a
narrative in my pictures. this is a very difficult thing to
achieve. in the studio we discussed the possibility of removing
titles to pictures and using numbers only.
but what about the sequence created?
episodic ideas?
even having a working title Stryd Fawr / Stryd Uchel [ 2016 ]
would inevitably, it was felt, conjure up a framework for
interpretation, no matter how the pictures were made.
so, like Billy Childish, i'll work within the limits i create,
not others.
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where have all the people gone?
Where have all the people gone?
Hapus Cwm
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i've previously created pictures focused on emptiness caused
by dense communities. pictures of fragile existence lived on the
edge.
often just a state of mind, recently i've also noted the marks
made by people who leave their communities across the globe.
so how is this emptiness possible?
is it ever possible to seek conclusions through pictures?
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for me, something seems to be very broken.
something is not quite right.
something needs fixing.
The pictures in the Stryd Fawr / Stryd Uchel Project [ 2016 ],
are all about the journey needed to find answers.
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hapus cwm
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' you can see how big this house is, but how big is the picture?'
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i sit in the studio surrounded by my addiction to creativity.
new pictures, old pictures, new music, old music, books, notes...
it all makes me think.
it forces me to ...do something new...everytime.
***
a cousin of mine has recorded a cd of ten new songs and monified
each song, one of which has gone viral.
70,000 and counting.
the other songs, almost zero.
what do people do with the track?
put it in a mix?
use it as a soundtrack?
my cousin won't know unless he starts receiving royalties i
suppose.
a similar thing is happening with e - short stories and flash
fiction, download a favourite, their use?...your guess.
reading? performance? recording?
and what of pictures posted on on-line galleries?
go ahead, download some that you like, and then?
are they used as teaching tools?
printed [ A0 / A1 ] to put up as decor?
reduced to A5 for use in promotions?
artists such as, for example, koen lybaert, joerg meister,
marilyn kirsch, beth fletcher are, along with many others,
creating what appears to me, to be challenging, consistently
thought provoking work.
and publishing on-line.
but what their spectators, audience, buyers do with it is, let's
be candid here, out of their control.
and this ultimately may be the whole point.
so when asked; how big is the picture you have posted on-line?
maybe the answer has to be: i don't know, that's really up to
you, not me.
steve coel
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