Catalogue
Southport Weekender Archive
I have been dancing, - and drawing The Dance - live at Southport Weekender since I first visited at it’s original location at Pontins, Southport in year 2000, through the Minehead Butlins years, to it’s current location at Butlins, Bognor Regis (via it’s satelite festival Suncebeat in Croatia). That’s 23 years of drawing/painting live on location in real time. What began as a bunch of ‘live art’ experimental drawings has been transformed by the project’s longevity into a robust visual archive evoking the spirit of the musical-dancikal event whilst also marking and celebrating it’s persistence and development.
Josie At Southport Weekender
The Curtis and Josie artworks were commissioned by Josie at Southport 2022, - and come out of a long process of ensuing dialogue via Instagram messaging between the commissioner (Josie), and ‘commissionee’ (me). The original pastels are small, and meticulously drawn with close reference to the iphone snaps which Josie supplied. Much of the background scenery with Jazz Dancers, and the Dancefloor crowd, is invented from my memories of previous Dance sessions and live drawings. Though only in A4 -size I designed these drawings to be expanded as giclee prints to A1-size, amplifying emotionally heightened colour and tone.
