Andrew Reeve

Developing ideas into art for everyone

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Jesus Fucking Christ

I saw the cross raised above the horizon. Rags of thoughtless bones slumped against the mounds were easily remembered and drawn by thoughtless drones. Christ; every day, every fucking way and every fucking way the thieves seek salvation. And the Bishops stare with greedy recognition of expectation. Doomed; the feasting viewers unknown to their fate amongst thieves and rags and the corpse on the…

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Knowledge is...

Knowledge is…

Whilst complicated situations continue to present the world with increasing uncertainty about how to successfully and peacefully resolve situations without the need for sustained military involvement, I can’t help but feel despair towards proposed cuts to budgets allowing many people from various socioeconomic backgrounds the opportunity to question their history, and position in this world…

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No Shelter: Mother without Child

Found object, hand-cut canvas

This work was made in collaboration with Lavanja Thavabalasingam for the Correspondence exhibition held alongside and in response to the Moore in Focus: A Friendship in Letters exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2014.

Henry Moore made a number of drawings of people sheltering in the Underground during the Blitz and his more well-known sculptures depict a mother and child. He also holidayed at Happisburgh where he discovered stones with holes in them on the beach, which led to his sculptural works taking the forms that are synonymous with his work.

No Shelter: Mother without Child was made using similar stones from Happisburgh. This work depicts the aftermath of an airstrike; there is no shelter and the child is missing. The hand-cut canvas depicts a cloud of smoke from an airstrike in the form of Jasmine flowers. Damascus in Syria is known as the City of Jasmine.

I did hope the work would be confined to history and not suddenly become immediately relevant today.

No Shelter: Mother without Child

No Shelter: Mother without Child (detail)

No Shelter: Mother without Child No Shelter: Mother without Child Found object, hand-cut canvas This work was made in collaboration with Lavanja Thavabalasingam for the Correspondence exhibition held alongside and in response to the Moore in Focus: A Friendship in Letters exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2014.

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PAiNT Exhibition - Undercroft - Norwich

PAiNT Exhibition – Undercroft – Norwich

We are privileged to be alive at a time when painting is not dominated by one single movement, at present we see the flourishing of many different styles, techniques, subjects, and themes. We have a wealth of artists of various backgrounds pushing at the boundaries of painting. Paint is an exhibition of over 22 artists all working in their own individual style, all very different but all…

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Autumn Skies...

Autumn Skies…

I sit here while you sleep after working hard again. Today you wept because you felt you might not be good at what you do. I didn’t know what to do, so I hugged you. Every morning I feel guilty when I’m still in bed and you get up in the dark. I get up a few minutes or so after you’ve left. I try to make something of the day so I hope you feel we’re both working hard. My efforts don’t translate…

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Working Tax Credits and Art

Working Tax Credits and Art

In 2007 I was lucky enough to be accepted onto the Access to HE Art & Design course at City College Norwich. I’m not joking when I say I had to hold back the tears when the course leader, Brenda Unwin mentioned the delicate lines in some drawings in my sketchbook. The Access course was affordable and also paved the way for me to go to university; the first in my family to do so. Two years later,…

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The Secret on the Reverse

The Secret on the Reverse

Recent news in the art world involves the coming to auction of Picasso’s La Gommeuse created during the artist’s blue period. Of course there is huge interest in this work and not simply because it is associated with a well-known period in the artist’s life, but because the reverse of the canvas features a secret painting which has never been publicly seen before. I laughed at this. Not because I…

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I think my name is Torbian

I think my name is Torbian

My name is Torbian I work for you. Before I forget the story I’m supposed to say, I’ll mention my credentials: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… “They don’t quite fill the page” …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Give me a wrench and I will twist your kiddy-widdy bedrooms, Hang shitty-bitty paintings, Rescind sex; agree with Conservative policies. Fuck poetry, fuck…

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Automatic Transmission during Rush Hour

Automatic Transmission during Rush Hour

Enticed X-rays Impact Trustful Decisions Obstructing Obvious Reactions. Empathy Not Theological Exclamations Refine Caricature Arrested Reformations. Jewelled Utopia, Nobody Connects Tomorrow, Instead Origins Neglect Turns Reaching, Accepting, Forever Father, I Cradle: Love. Instead Golden Hubristic Torment Sears. Brave Radiations Ignite Dilligence; Great Excitement. Degraded Explosions Slow…

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#Ism

For a long time it’s been clear it will be difficult to suppose another “ism” in art that is universally acknowledged. I guess it’s simply because the world and everything happening in it can be accessed as quickly as it is forgotten. There’s a dating website where people flick through possible suitors as if they’re on a supermarket shelf. I mean, that’s really not cool. Why anyone would…

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When I slept surrounded by racing cars and dreams of exploring space, I kept a pot of cress on my windowsill. Amazed at the extraordinary result of watering this metaphor I continued until it died.

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Satisfaction

You don’t fucking know what I sifted through. I held someone’s insides and knew they belonged to me. I knew nothing until that particular fucking point. I still don’t. You confuse me. You are so certain; a sliver of doubt never slices your eyes but I wonder how you’d feel if it did. You know everything Armchair Commandant.

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Exhibitions

PORTRAIT Until 18th October The Bank 2 Castle Street Eye Suffolk

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The ability to think without government advice....

The ability to think without government advice….

There’s a poisonous idea that still, unbelievably, permeates rational thought amongst many clever people. Drugs are bad. No. The drugs aren’t bad. Overdoing them is bad and how you use them could potentially be. So, clearly, rational non-sensational education about how drugs may affect a person and cause effects is necessary. Smoke pot. It’s fine. Drop LSD. It’s fine. If you, ever, want to fly,…

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Nothing on avenues

Yes, I’ll raise an eye, Not because I have to, she wants sublime, Television crimes and radio and no-one knows where to go, Maps and shops confuse the historians, Even the delivery driver knows nothing of yesterday’s news. Have a balloon friend, pull up your socks and whistle granddaddy’s dead tune, Coffee shops and cobblers, nail bar saloons, Sugar sweets and littered streets of preachers cheeks…

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Dirty Al'

Dirty Al’

Goin’ down the window, Face on glass, Goin’ down the window, Recognitions pass, Goin’ down the window, A piece of ass, Equinox shabba, Dabba, dabba doo. Steel cars and avenues and, Pot holes and truth, Sewer covers  / and a  / man on the roof. Kerbside jazz and balustrades / we walk too A man taking hope / without truth, Not on a tide or even with a / pretty wife. Stuck on a flimsy ship. Stuck on…

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Norfolk 2000

Norfolk 2000 is a project exploring the benefits of immigration to the region over 2000 years.

As one of five selected contemporary artists to be commissioned with creating a unique one-off artwork responding to workshops organised by the project, it has been an interesting, and thoroughly enjoyable, experience.

More details can be found by visiting http://norfolk2000.co.uk/

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