Thinking about:
• Audience
• Philip Taaffe.
The quote above reads:
Taaffe recognizes that his art is caught in the tension between the public and the private, the accessible and the inaccessible. As he tells Brakhage:
‘I often find myself poised between two poles of thought. The one, as Matisse said, is to make a painting as a luxuriant armchair. And then on the other hand you have Georges Rouault saying, I don’t care if anybody ever sees what I do, I m creating purely as a form of prayer, a private visionary meditation, and that is all.’
Source: ‘Philip Taaffe’ by John Yau.
North by North
Flowerfield Angie and Cheryl in Portstewart are chatty and helpful. They provide me with information on how I might approach the Flowerfield Centre for an exhibition. We talk about the new (ish) borough of ‘Causeway Coast & Glens’ and none of us can quite agree on...
