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."

video from Work/Work opening night

Here is a film from the Work/Work & Black Weekend launch party.

Work/Work Exhibition FINAL DAY = Friday 03 March

This Friday 3rd March is the FINAL DAY of the Work/Work exhibition.

The gallery is open 10am - 6pm.

Address: Lo & Behold gallery, 2b Swanfield Street, London, E2 7DS

nearest tube is Shoreditch High Street (overground).

The grand removal takes place on Saturday.  It will be a sad event, returning them all to their box.

Notes To Self: Stolen Time, March 2000 - August 2006

Notes To Self is 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.  

The piece was first shown in Work/Work - a group research exhibition investigating how artists balance their creative work with paid jobs.  The exhibition ran from the 3rd to the 11th of March 2011 at the Lo & Behold Gallery, Swanfield St, London, E2 7DS.

Work/Work Exhibition opening night

Work / Work - a group research exhibition

Work/Work is a research exhibition exploring how artists manage the balance between creative work and bill-paying second jobs; the work/work balance.

Opening Night: Thursday 3rd March, 6pm - 9pm
Lo & Behold Gallery, 2b Swanfield St, London, E2 7DS

Exhibition continues until Friday 11th March 2011
Opening times: 10am - 6pm

Exhibiting group

- Dominic Bradnum
- Pippa Koszerek
- Sam Curtis
- Olga Hoffman
- Sarah Matthews

- Exhibition by Avenir Projects.


opening night performances from

Drums of Death
(Greco-Roman)
Flora Yin-Wong
(Dazed Digital)

http://www.workworkexhibition.tumblr.com/

Installation of 1,966 post-it notes

I've spent the past 2 days at the gallery installing my piece Notes To Self: Stolen Time, March 2000 - August 2006. The piece is made up of approximately 1,966 post-it note “artworks” created during full-time employment over a 6-year period.

The installation process took about 19 hours in all, and is documented on the work/work exhibition blog, today I feel like one great big ACHE.

Half of me feels like a proud father.  The other half feels like I've created a monster...

Thank you to those who helped with installation, you know who you are.

Work/Work Exhibition

As I've already mentioned a number of times in passing, I will be taking part in an exhibition in East London during March.  I will be showing an archive of approximately 1,966 post-it note "artworks", created whilst in full-time employment between 2000 and 2006.

The opening night/private view is Thursday 3rd March, 6pm - 9pm.
The exhibition runs until Friday 11th March,
opening times 10am - 6pm.
Address: Lo & Behold gallery, 2b Swanfield Street, E2 7DS [map]


Work/Work is a research exhibition exploring how artists manage the balance between creative work and bill-paying second jobs; the work/work balance.

http://workworkexhibition.tumblr.com

...According to statistics*, only 6% of artists in and around international creative capitals London and New York make their living from their practice alone. So how do artists resist the stifling of creative impulses at work, maintain their practice in limited free time, and balance the need for income and time to create? What strategies do they employ to survive in the office? In what ways can employment distinct from creative practice provide source material and inspiration to artists?

Between November 2010 - March 2011, a temporary collective of artists will meet regularly to discuss the theme of the exhibition, and contribute research, thoughts and ideas to this blog. A collective essay will be edited from the findings, and an exhibition of art works developed throughout the process will open on 3rd March 2011.

*Abbing, Hans 2009