Katie Rivers

Stalking Joe. A series of photographs from when i stalked my...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:25:00 -0400

Stalking Joe.

A series of photographs from when i stalked my housemate for a month. I managed to get him very drunk one night and allow him to strip for me while i took hundreds of photos. He only became aware that these images existed when he saw them on the wall at uni. Fortunately he took it well and consents to them being put on the internet.

Photo

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:19:15 -0400

Photo

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:28:21 -0400

part of Aveugle Chienne Dans Un Béret portrait of a male, 25....

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:55:00 -0400

part of

Aveugle Chienne Dans Un Béret

portrait of a male, 25. Writer. Oil on canvas. 35cm by 12 cm.

Part of Aveugle Chienne Dans Un Béret Portrait of a Female, 18....

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:14:00 -0400

Part of

Aveugle Chienne Dans Un Béret

Portrait of a Female, 18. Psychology student. Oil on canvas. 35cm by 12cm

Aveugle Chienne Dans Un Béret - A performance done in...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:21:00 -0400

Aveugle Chienne Dans Un Béret -

A performance done in collaboration with Pixie. 10 times at Brink gallery in Kenilworth.

For this piece of work Pixie took on the persona of a psychiatrist and asked willing members of the audience vague, non intrusive questions, while i stood dressed in an artists smock, silent, blindfolded listening to the responses. In the time it took them to answer all the questions i created an abstract portrait each of them based on my first impression.

Hopefully i will be able to do about 20 more and have enough to put them in different groups and demographics based on the individuals responses. In the end creating a whole graph of paintings that will maybe show some correlation of the different characters we have interviewed. Or maybe it won’t.

Henri - 3rd and final layer. Oil on canvas

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:57:18 -0400

Henri - 3rd and final layer. Oil on canvas

Guilia - 3rd and final layer. Oil on canvas.

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:13:31 -0400

Guilia - 3rd and final layer. Oil on canvas.

Carolin - 3rd and final layer. Oil on canvas.

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:57:25 -0400

Carolin - 3rd and final layer. Oil on canvas.

Henri - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 2/1 ft by 2ft.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:02:00 -0400

Henri - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 2/1 ft by 2ft.

Guilia - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 1/2 ft by 2ft.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:23:29 -0400

Guilia - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 1/2 ft by 2ft.

Carolin - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 1/2 ft by 2 ft.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:40:00 -0400

Carolin - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 1/2 ft by 2 ft.

Matt - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 1/2 ft by 2 ft.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:37:00 -0400

Matt - 1st layer. Oil on canvas. 3 1/2 ft by 2 ft.

Human Buckaroo - A performance done in collaboration with Pixie....

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:50:55 -0400

Human Buckaroo - A performance done in collaboration with Pixie. Three times in Talisman Square, Kenilworth and once at the Brink Gallery in Kenilworth.

Using the basic principles of the children’s game Buckaroo myself and Pixie came up with this life size game where we chose members of the audience to compete against one another in trying to pile as many objects on me as possible. After each object was placed on one the hooks on my outfit i attempted to walk across the balance been and back again. The looser would be the person who put the final object on that would unbalance me enough to make me fall into the ball pit.

For me this piece of work reflects how i see myself in almost every relationship i have in my life at the moment. A passive person who gets pushed around and bullied a bit.