Guest blogger 3: Matt Tucker
Our first guest blog should be posted on Thursday, but for now we've still got two more bloggers to introduce. Our third is Matt Tucker. Here's what Matt has to say:
"I'm a 25 year old blogger who writes about the Charity Sector and the Arts, as well as any news items that are crying out for a comment. I like to think of myself as a creative person; I completed a degree in Creative Writing where I wrote short stories, screenplays and poems. I believe we all have a novel inside of us, some of us have a few - it's just a case of quitting the day job and getting down to it! My day job is a Technical Clerk for an Engineering company in Reading and I used to work for an Educational Non-Profit Organisation.
Photography is one of my favourite hobbies; I have a darkroom set up in the garage, with the car parked in the street. Even in the current age of digital imaging, I don't think we should forget the old-fashioned chemical and silver nitrate techniques. For me, manipulating images in a darkroom feels more artistically satisfying than clicking a mouse. When I'm not developing photos, I like to swim and jog along the canal next to my house.
I love to travel, including a recent trip to New York, where I spotted some great potential locations for a 'One & Other' plinth, like Times Square and Central Park. There is of course one New York Plinthian who is a little hard to upstage - the Statue of Liberty! On my tour of Liberty Island I learnt that her plinth cost as much as the statue itself. Also, in 1885 funding to build the colossal plinth dried up, and Lady Liberty was nearly left with nowhere to stand. That was until publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the Pulitzer prize, stepped in to whip up media interest and the plinth was finished just in time.
In my view, 'One & Other' brings together lots of developments in Art and society: public involvement, the Internet and New Media, a democratic and unpredictable representation of humanity, and most importantly the idea that everyone can (and perhaps should) express themselves artistically. Andy Warhol said that everyone would have their 15 minutes of fame, Antony Gormley is giving us 60!
I hope to see some great characters on the Fourth Plinth and I'll be glued to the 'One & Other' website and the Sky Arts coverage.
Looking forward to blogging for 'One & Other' readers!
Matt"
"I'm a 25 year old blogger who writes about the Charity Sector and the Arts, as well as any news items that are crying out for a comment. I like to think of myself as a creative person; I completed a degree in Creative Writing where I wrote short stories, screenplays and poems. I believe we all have a novel inside of us, some of us have a few - it's just a case of quitting the day job and getting down to it! My day job is a Technical Clerk for an Engineering company in Reading and I used to work for an Educational Non-Profit Organisation.
Photography is one of my favourite hobbies; I have a darkroom set up in the garage, with the car parked in the street. Even in the current age of digital imaging, I don't think we should forget the old-fashioned chemical and silver nitrate techniques. For me, manipulating images in a darkroom feels more artistically satisfying than clicking a mouse. When I'm not developing photos, I like to swim and jog along the canal next to my house.
I love to travel, including a recent trip to New York, where I spotted some great potential locations for a 'One & Other' plinth, like Times Square and Central Park. There is of course one New York Plinthian who is a little hard to upstage - the Statue of Liberty! On my tour of Liberty Island I learnt that her plinth cost as much as the statue itself. Also, in 1885 funding to build the colossal plinth dried up, and Lady Liberty was nearly left with nowhere to stand. That was until publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the Pulitzer prize, stepped in to whip up media interest and the plinth was finished just in time.
In my view, 'One & Other' brings together lots of developments in Art and society: public involvement, the Internet and New Media, a democratic and unpredictable representation of humanity, and most importantly the idea that everyone can (and perhaps should) express themselves artistically. Andy Warhol said that everyone would have their 15 minutes of fame, Antony Gormley is giving us 60!
I hope to see some great characters on the Fourth Plinth and I'll be glued to the 'One & Other' website and the Sky Arts coverage.
Looking forward to blogging for 'One & Other' readers!
Matt"
1 Response
leave a responseIt sounds wicked.
I'm looking forward to read more about it.
Good vibes to you all.
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