Sophie Molins

• Music box- Sophia Berrick (wedding present) - monkey  music box.
• Commission on animals roles in the household.
• Regency cartoons - first research point.
• Mothers possessions - photographed them (shoelaces and shoes).
• Made shoes into butterflies - symbolises the soul.
• Mother loved horses - http://www.deepdowndarkhorse.com
• Climate change charity - don’t forget the monkey website (where have we come from and where are we going to?).
• Another web world (based on monkey music box).
• House - separation of females and males. http://www.sundialinmoonlight.com
• Regency sexuality.
• ‘He’ - book about masculinity.
• St Bernards monastery - inspired a project (photographic only currently, wants to make a film).
• Web work lasts forever unlike exhibitions.
• Successful courtesans - men wanted to share them (culture was less monogamous and more playful).

http://www.sophiemolins.com/

Dawn Mellor

• Time in relation to an object: Michael Jackson and other men (Book)
  

  
  

  

Teenage years 1980’s (13-16):

• Magazines were the only source of info/reference for the drawings.
• Holding onto the connection (Can’t play YouTube on repeat!).
• Race riots across the country - music videos such as ‘Thriller’ were used as scapegoats for the violence.
• Trying to understand what was going on - political ignorance? Upon reflection looks like an american celebrity obsession.

Adult Years:

• Constructed personas (120 people)- endless transformation of yourself into various characters.
• Derail good/bad misconceptions (Political: Right wing and left wing).
• Dorothy paintings - Iraq war based (Trying to demonstrate conflict), the complexities of hating the war. Is it self created (hatred)?
• Children represent innocence usually.
• Paint first, problems later!
• 16 Painting series - gallery asked for but she did paintings of women in films.
• Horror film idea - used architecture to enhance the exhibition.
• Introduced female queer idea - galleries didn’t like it.
• People interpreted images badly - feminist concerns.
• Lost enjoyments - pushed away from what she wanted to do by gallerist.
• Chose to leave the gallerist.
• Service imagery - ‘teddyboys/teddygirls’.
• Not shown in many public spaces (such as the Tate)due to age restriction? (Female artists have this problem more than men. Antifeminist?Sexism?).
• The shock factor (controversy) didn’t occur to her.

Time - Introduction

• Michael Gladwell - You need 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of anything and everything.
• Making art is a love affair.
• It is entirely normal to feel despair.
• If you make an exhibition of your failures you will probably pass.
• Being nostalgic is a disease.
• The future is on hold, we are getting the 20th century repackaged in HD. It is not progress!
• Thinking ahead not behind.

Painting Time - Gary Simmonds

• Jane Harris - Recognising the amount of work that goes into someones work.
• “Slow, Fast, Modern” - Neon Dayglow paint