TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS 2012-14… Things found to paint on, things thrown out , unwanted things left on the street…
Today’s “blank canvas”, a piece of packing case hardwood with a coat hanger peg on the middle and waiting in a skip with stripes in place. 10th Nov, 2012
Today’s “blank canvas”, a piece of packing case hardwood with a coat hanger peg on the middle and waiting in a skip with stripes in place. 10th Nov, 2012
Today’s “blank canvas”, a piece of packing case hardwood with a coat hanger peg on the middle and waiting in a skip with stripes in place. 10th Nov, 2012
July 19th, 2012 – Today’s blank canvas was a wooden packing pallet just waiting for me outside Cultivate
July 19th, 2012 – Today’s blank canvas was a wooden packing pallet just waiting for me outside Cultivate… one coat of white paint and
July 19th, 2012 – Today’s blank canvas was a wooden packing pallet just waiting for me outside Cultivate… one coat of white paint and an afternoon working on it outside on the pavement later we have a healthy layer or two of leaf growth and some work in progress…
21st June 2012, yesterday’s layer added, and now all finished…
21st June 2012, yesterday’s layer added, and now all finished…
21st June 2012, today’s blank canvas, a nice big piece of wood all ready for somSaturday afternoon white paint…
21st June 2012, today’s blank canvas, a nice big piece of wood all ready for some Saturday afternoon white paint, a bit of red paint (from a tin found in a skip) and a leaf or two…
21st June 2012, today’s blank canvas, a nice big piece of wood all ready for some Saturday afternoon white paint, a bit of red paint (from a tin found in a skip) and a leaf or two…
21st June 2012, today’s blank canvas, a nice big piece of wood all ready for some Saturday afternoon white paint, a bit of red paint (from a tin found in a skip) and a leaf or two… all waiting for tomorrow’s layer of growth..
26th July 2912, work in progress
28th July 2012, today’s blank canvas found out on the street..
AUGUST 1st 2012, where the Dirty Great Flower ended up
AUGUST 1st 2012, where the Dirty Great Flower ended up
On the Cultivate wall, November 2012
On the Cultivate wall, November 2012
On the Cultivate wall, November 2012
On the Cultivate wall, November 2012
The second packing case, on the Cultivate wall, November 2012
Today’s blank canvas beasts, two big canvas things left on the road with a note saying please take and use/ All nicely stretched and one painted green while the other is kind of Strawberry ice Cream colour, both about a 150cm square and now back safely in my studio waiting for a layer or two of new work
From unwanted piece of wood on the street to a painting with a home – November 2012
11th Nov. 2012
11th Nov 2012… the coat hook and the striped were already there
8th FEB 2013 – Today’s black canvas comes in the shape of two taxi cab drivers seats that have been painted brown and white. They have already been used as props in an art show, they were being thrown out by an art studio, so now they are by new blank canvas beasts ready to be painted next week…
3rd March 2013, a nice big piece of cardboard was today’s blank canvas to exclaim on
3rd March 2013, a nice big piece of cardboard was today’s blank canvas to exclaim on
3rd March 2013, that big pimk canvas is looking like this now
3rd March 2013, that big pimk canvas is looking like this now
3rd March 2013, today/s blank canvas, a broken wooden table top that has already been handed painted. Retrieved from a skip and,,,,
A whole pile of blank canvas things…. 20th March 2013
APRIL 18th Today’s blank canvas, side of a wooden package case thrown out of the sculpture studio up the road
APRIL 18th Today’s blank canvas, side of a wooden package case thrown out of the sculpture studio up the road
APRIL 18th Today’s blank canvas, side of a wooden package case thrown out of the sculpture studio up the road
APRIL 18th Today’s blank canvas, side of a wooden package case thrown out of the sculpture studio up the road
APRIL 24th, 2013 – Today’s blank canvas, a strangely-shaped broken wooden table top that has already been handed painted. retrieved from a skip and…. Now with a layer of red growth and up on the gallery wall
April 2013, found in the street. new wooden window-shape blank canvas, waiting for a layer or two
APRIL 24th, 2013 – Today’s blank canvas, a strangely-shaped broken wooden table top that has already been handed painted. retrieved from a skip and…. Now with a layer of red growth and up on the gallery wall
APRIL 24th, 2013 – Today’s blank canvas, a strangely-shaped broken wooden table top that has already been handed painted. retrieved from a skip and…. Now with a layer of red growth and up on the gallery wall (and sold)
12th July 2013 – rescued from a skip today
AUGUST 4th 2013 – today’s blank canvas, a skateboard deck found in a bin. waiting to be painted on
AUGUST 4th 2013 – today’s blank canvas, a skateboard deck found in a bin and now painted on
AUGUST 4th 2013 – today’s blank canvas, a skateboard deck found in a bin and now painted on
AUGUST 4th 2013 – today’s blank canvas, a skateboard deck found in a bin and now painted on
AUGUST 4th 2013 – today’s blank canvas, a skateboard deck found in a bin and now painted on
These two heads were given to me by a film effects studio, originally casings for moulds for latex zombies (or something like that, you get the drift), “We were just going to throw these out, but then we thought you” said the guy who brought them in to Cultivate, Vyner Street. And so they were quickly tagged, their mouths made red, and on the plinth they went for the opening of that night;s Two show. One of them how now been sold and has a home to go to, the other shall be left on some wasteland or on a canal ban k or a garden when nature can take her course, now where shall I put it?
One of the two heads….
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
OCT 6th 2013 – An old book cover rescued
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
OCT 6th 2013 – THE TAXI CHAIR
12th Oct 2013 – “SHORT HISTORY OF BRITAIN to 1485” Found book clover (Oct 2013)
2ND NOV 2013 – An unwanted empty frame found in a skip full of building rubbish on the wall waiting for attention
3rd Nov 2013 – The big empty frame found in a skip full of building rubbish is now on the wall after an afternoon of work in the gallery
3rd Nov 2013 – The big empty frame found in a skip full of building rubbish is now on the wall after an afternoon of work in the gallery
5th Nov 2013 – Today’s Blank Canvas – A rather crude hand made bar sign left on Vyner Street after September First Thursday by the people who ran the illegal pop up street bar and brought down all the council and police attention on the galleries of the street
5th Nov 2013 – Today’s Blank Canvas – A rather crude hand made bar sign left on Vyner Street after September First Thursday by the people who ran the illegal pop up street bar and brought down all the council and police attention on the galleries of the street
5th Nov – Sean Worrall 5 November 2013 · Edited the book cover has now left the building, sold to someone who wanted ot bind a book with it.
6th Nov 2013 – The big empty frame found in a skip full of building rubbish is now on the wall after an afternoon of work in the gallery bits of things hanging around, unwanted pizza flyers painted on, old pie boxes exclaimed on, old newspapers used on the gallery floor while I’m working, all thrown together rather and thrown in a frame that someone didn’t want, rather than thrown away… nothing goes to waste
13th Nov – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – A cracked mirror found in the street
13th Nov – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – A cracked mirror found in the street
15th Nov – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – A cracked mirror found in the street, and now on the gallery wall ready or tomorrow’s WHAT PRICE ART show where everything is for sale at whatever price YOU wish to pay
15th Nov 2013 – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – A cracked mirror found in the street, and now on the gallery wall ready or tomorrow’s WHAT PRICE ART show where everything is for sale at whatever price YOU wish to pay (it sold for a pleasing £20)
In the gallery, Nov 2013
13th Nov 2013 – An old Labour election sign used as a canvas – “WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER” is the name of the piece, and you can find it on the gallery wall ready or tomorrow’s WHAT PRICE ART show where everything is for sale at whatever price YOU wish to pay
15th Nov 2013 – Today’s blank canvas was a big piece of wooden packing case that has been waiting to be painted properly for ages…
Today’s blank canvas things – an avocado box from Chili and a small plank of wood (November 17th, 2013)
17th N ov 2013 – Yesterday’s blank canvas, some pieces of broken up hardboard left outside a Vyner Street gallery.
17th Nov – Yesterday’s blank canvas, some pieces of broken up hardboard left outside another Vyner Street gallery, exclaimed on today, ready to be left out on the street again
Today’s blank canvas thing – a small plank of wood found in the street (November 17th, 2013) , The piece of wood later on in the day… (and sold a couple of days later)
17th Nov 2013 – A piece of green wood found in the street
17th Nov 2013 – A cardboard box found in the street
24th Nov – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – One of those generically dreadful Ikea “canvas style” prints people insist on violating their walls with and then throw out as they come to their senses
24th Nov – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – One of those generically dreadful Ikea “canvas style” prints people insist on violating their walls with and then throw out as they come to their senses
24th Nov – TODAY’S BLANK CANVAS – THE MYSTERY OF THE WET PAINTING. Last Saturday evening, just after I had locked up Cultivate, somewhere around 6.30pm. I found a painting. There it was, just lying there in the middle of the road, a substantial canvas, lying there face down on the cobbles in the orange streetlight, waiting for the next vehicle along to crush it….
JAN 9th 2014… Today’s blank canvas, well canvas to work on, was found on top of bin at the side of a wasteful East London charity shop, The 50cm x 80cm canvas has a rather bad painting on it at the moment, but the marks are interesting and it is demanding some new layers of growth
Jan 2014 – a pink vinyl 7″ record found in the street after Broadway Market (Hackney) had closed
26th Jan – Today’s blank canvas, a nice big piece of wooded packing case found lying in Vyner Street and now tagged and waiting for attention..
Jan 2014 – a pink vinyl 7″ record found in the street and painted on…
Feb 1st 2014. growth on that piece of packing case from the Congo via Tilbury Dock, found in Vyner Street last week… Probably heading for a car park in Soho tomorrow and the Chinese Open… something like 100sm x 80cm
Feb 1st 2014. growth on that piece of packing case from the Congo via Tilbury Dock, found in Vyner Street last week… Probably heading for a car park in Soho tomorrow and the Chinese Open… something like 100sm x 80cm
7th Feb 2014, today;s blank canvas, a pile small wooden pieces left by Limewharf’s bin…
7th Feb 2014, today’s blank canvas, a pile small wooden pieces left by Limewharf’s bin…
7th Feb 2014, today’s blank canvas, a pile small wooden pieces left by Limewharf’s bin…
7th Feb 2014, today’s blank canvas, a pile small wooden pieces left by Limewharf’s bin…
March 2014 – Blank canvas – after
March 2014 – Blank canvas – before
March 2014 – Blank canvas – after (sold)
March 2014 – Blank canvas – after
March 2014 – Blank canvas – after (sold)
March 2014 – Blank canvas – after
March 2014 – Blank canvas – before
March 2014 – Blank canvas – before
March 2014 – Blank canvas – after
March 2014 – on a Channel 4 television documentary
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