Cole Pauls photographed by M. Thom Smith

passing-strangers:

Edward Wadsworth (1889 - 1949) was the most prolific Vorticist printmaker, making more than 50 woodcuts between 1913 and 1921. He also contributed to the Vorticist manifesto BLAST no.1 in 1915. From 1916 to 1917 Wadsworth served as a naval intelligence officer in the Aegean, and on his return to England, he supervised camouflage programmes for shipping in Liverpool and Bristol, and these themes would feature in his work.

Wadsworth’s prints fascinate me, as they demonstrate the effectiveness of the woodcut technique, in their precision and detail. His prints are very striking and bold, emphasised by the high-contrast monochrome, and echo the dynamic style of the period in his own distinctive way.

(Pictured: ‘Liverpool Shipping’ and ‘Black Country’, both 1919)

Daily dose of Vorticist inspiration.

M. Thom Smith | Copycats

Acrylic on canvas, installed in the entranceway of the Yukon School of Visual Arts.

2012.

torpedoorchrons:

handed in art coursework at the end of this week with a project that ended up focusing on mourning in Judaism and particularly the traditions of sitting shiva and cutting the tzitzit (tassels) from the prayer shawl of the deceased. final outcome was a large painting (acrylics) on a ground made from scrap fabric and a textile sculpture of an oversized tzitzit loosely inspired by the work of Eva Hesse. Here’s a few photos of the piece with details of both sculpture and painting. there’s also a massive semi-abstract drybrush of a close-up of the sculpture but I don’t have any photos of that at the moment/I imagine it’s about ten times more striking in real life anyway. 

Helena Ross is amazing and you should all love her.

stills/installation shots of my animation/installation piece As The Crow Flies

M. Thom Smith 

Dawson City, Yukon