more Notes To Self coverage

I'd forgotten about this little preview.

Present Joys is a small publishing house based at the Lo & Behold gallery building.  They took some sneak preview photos of the great wall of post-it notes after we'd finished installing the work and gone home.

presentjoys.com/news/notes_to_self/

article about 'Notes To Self...' in OnOffice magazine

There is an article on my post-it notes piece Notes To Self: Stolen Time, March 2000-August 2006 in the May 2011 issue of OnOffice magazine.  You can read it online: go to www.onofficemagazine.com and click on the MAY 11 thumbnail to view.

press for Work/Work exhibiton + Notes To Self

Here are a couple of press-clippings about the Work/Work exhibition, and my artwork Notes To Self: Stolen Time, March 2000-August 2006.

There was a preview about the exhibition in the 3-9 March issue of Le Cool London.

I also found a mention of Notes To Self at helpgov.wordpress.com in their 101 uses for a post-it note section:

"No. 3 – Filling those long empty hours at work

It was only searching ideas for 101 uses… that I became aware there’s a whole sub-culture of Post-it art.

Some of it wouldn’t fit at all into 101 uses…. Lots of cars covered in the things, models (human variety) ditto, a portrait of Jimi Hendrix made out of Post-it notes. And so on.

But suddenly one of the Twitterati alerted me to Work/Work – a group research exhibition investigating how artists balance their creative work with paid jobs. The exhibition ran from 3 – 11 March 2011 at the Lo & Behold Gallery in London.

Dominic Bradnum’s Notes To Self was prominent in the exhibition

an archival artwork made up of approximately 1,966 individual post-it note “artworks” created over a 6 year period, whilst in full-time employment

Now that’s interesting – 1,966 notes drawn while in full-time employment over six years. By my reckoning of the normal number of working days a year that must be an average of more than one a day.

Were they drawn in work time? With the employers’ precious stationery supplies? It would be indiscreet to ask but a photo on the Work/Work web site suggests some at least were produced between 9 and 5. I especially like some of his raw material for the bigger work. Note the Post-it reading “AAAAAAAH! ANNUAL REVIEW”. Never did three words tell a story more effectively. Seems like he wasn’t looking forward to his annual appraisal. We can all sympathise with that one."

Exhibition press for I THINK OF YOU AND I SMILE

I just found this little preview for 'I Think Of You And I Smile', from the Brighton Latest magazine.

Exhibition press for I THINK OF YOU AND I SMILE

I've had a couple of features in the local press about my exhibition...

Following my interview the other day, The Argus have devoted half a page in today's edition

Meanwhile, The Source have given me a good write up: Mat Barker has compared my paintings to Jenny Holzer and Gerhard Richter, and I can't argue with that!

[apologies for the poor quality scans]

More exhibition press

I found a copy of February's GScene in Brighton the other day, so I've scanned in the little feature/preview they gave me. It's on page 52 if you want to see it in the flesh.

It's strange when you write a press-release about yourself then people quote it back at you. Suppose it would be worse if it was used against you, though.

Exhibition press

I've had a bit of local press for my exhibition at the Caroline of Brunswick.

There's a preview in this month's XYZ magazine


XYZ also gave it a mention on their blog
www.xyzmagazine.co.uk/blog/wordpress/?p=3783

GScene used my press-release as a direct quote from "the artist"
page 52 and
www.gscene.com/Exhibitions/Painted_neon_exhibition.shtml