Sunday, June 07, 2015
Friday, June 05, 2015
Horse Chestnut Tree in Flower
under a horse chestnut tree
thirteen small rabbits
Paul Conneally
Ilam, Peak District, UK
May 30 2015
Ilam, Peak District, UK
May 30 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
LIAR - The Psychogeography Of Silent Reading
LIAR - Paul Conneally Avignon Festival 2008
In LIAR Conneally explores cities and other spaces through the act of reading in public places.
Silent reading as psychosplacist intervention.
Originally performed in Avignon as part of the Avignon Festival 2008 Conneally has gone on to read silently in many other locations exploring the line between where it's acceptable to read silently in public and where it is not.
What are the messages given out when someone decides to read to themself in a paticular place - home tube cafe shopping mall busy street sat down stood up top of a hill in a stream?
And how are the spaces and people passing through them changed by such reading?
LIAR Eccentric City May 2009 LIAR - Look I Am Reading - Paul Conneally - Extract from Eccentric City May 2009
Labels:
art,
Avignon,
Avignon Festival,
culture,
paul conneally,
psychogeography,
reading,
splacist,
street photography
Monday, May 25, 2015
Jobs Fair

She tells me she's tired. Her sandwich board is heavy and she's got three more hours of street pounding to complete before lunch. I see more and more young sandwich board men and women, often stationary at the intersection of two busy thoroughfares or roads, usually advertising one pizza chain or another, sometimes in fancy dress.
This young woman is kinetic, in civvies, not carrying a fast-food chain message but boards emblazoned with the slogan 'Jobs fair today - Free to attend - Hundreds of jobs'.
She smiles and walks on. I take her photo from behind and my mind rearranges the words to align with my thoughts:
Fair Jobs
TODAY!
Paul Conneally
May 21st 2015
Leicester UK
Labels:
Fair jobs,
jobs,
Leicester,
paul conneally,
politics,
street photography,
Text,
This Is England
Sunday, May 24, 2015
HELTER SKELTER - A Proposal To Alter Carillon Tower

HELTER SKELTER - Paul Conneally 1999
HELTER SKELTER is a splacist art work from 1999 where I faxed Charnwood Borough Council's Director of Planning and Technical Services, Jonathan Hale, a proposal to form a Helter Skelter for peace around Loughborough's famous Carillon Tower war Memorial.
The intervention was based around the fact that all planning proposals have to be responded to by the council. The piece generated several press reports and a number of responses from the public. Contrary to Jonathan Hale's view that the public might find it controversial and be against it many were broadly in favour of it, at least as an idea. The official Carillon player, who fisted out songs from the shows and such on the Carillon keyboard in among the bells at the top of the tower, told Loughborough Echo that it was a fun idea, the bells playing as Loughbohemians slid down the helter skelter in the name of peace and in memory of those who died in the First World War.
I'm now revisiting engagement with Loughborough's Carillon Tower, an amazing building and now on all the signs heralding entry to Loughborough by road. Watch this splace!
Extract from The Splacist Manifesto:
We will own this city.
We will take it back.
We will link and shift; across time, space, people, places and processes
We will weave throughout the fabric of people’s lives.
We will unpick it.
We will affect and be affected.
We will glory in the moment, the collage, the marking and then passing on.
We reject your shopping centre, your pavement, your cultural quarter;
We will undermine pre-defined spaces. We reject them.
We will reclaim the city, not for you, but with you.
We are you.
Splacism is a contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally. A new set of ideologies defined by Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh. A hop, skip and a jump away from phsychogeography and the works of the situationist international. Think space, place and splice. Developed empirically by whoever’s interested.
Paul Conneally
May 24 2015
Loughborough Carillon:

Loughborough Carillon Tower War Memorial, Paul Conneally, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The Visitors

The Visitors
It's early May. Leicester City FC are hosting south coast opponents Southampton, The Saints. Both clubs need a win. Southampton are hunting a place in the Europa Cup and Leicester fighting relegation from the Premier to the Championship League.
Many of the Southampton fans are in shorts, some coupled with flip-flops. Maybe it's living by the sea, it's surely not shorts weather today here in the English East Midlands.
They arrive in coaches, buy burgers and drinks from the vans outside the ground and then make their way into the visitors' end. The atmosphere is good.
season's end
police share nods and smiles
with away fans
Paul Conneally
King Power Stadium
Leicester, 9th May 2015
Labels:
football,
haiku,
Leicester City,
paul conneally,
poetry,
Premier League,
soccer,
street photography
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Roll-up

Roll-up - Paul Conneally, King Power Stadium, May 10 2015
Two young Leicester City football fans have a roll-up, a cigarette, before City's fixture against Southampton. The Foxes (Leicester City) came out 2 nil victors and a step nearer towards escaping relegation to the Championship from the Premier League.
when Saturday comes
a pint a pie
and a game of two halves
Paul Conneally
May 2015
Labels:
football,
haiku,
haiku poetry,
Leicester City,
paul conneally,
poetry,
smoking,
soccer,
street photography
Monday, May 04, 2015
May Day
Labels:
Big Mac,
haiku poetry,
McDonalds,
paul conneally,
photography,
poetry,
street photography
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Loughborough Carillon Tower and War Memorial

'Loughborough Carillon Tower & War Memorial was built after WW1 to commemorate the men of the town who gave their lives. Unique in Britain, it is the only purpose built carillon tower.
Set within the beautiful Queen's Park the tower is also home to a museum, 3 rooms packed with military memorabilia. Including one room dedicated to the Leicestershire Yeomanry.
Above text from Go Leicestershire
In 1999 artist Paul Conneally proposed to Charnwood Borough Council planning committee that the Carillon Tower be turned into a Peace Beacon with the addition of a helter skelter slide around the external walls of the tower. The proposal itself was the artwork as Conneally knew, correctly, that the proposal would be rejected but would have to be considered. The proposal was made in the form of a poem and resulted in newspaper coverage and media discussion of the piece.
As Britain embarks on a frenzy of state funded events between 2014 and 2018 to commemorate 100 Years passing since the carnage of World War 1 Conneally will formally once again propose the transformation in some way of the Carillon Tower War Memorial into a more upfront peace proposing landmark whilst still remembering all those from all sides that lost their lives in the conflict, the war (Conneally will not call it the 'Great War') of 1914 to 1918 and all other wars too.
Photograph: Paul Conneally May 1st 2015
Labels:
Charnwood,
Conceptual Art,
Loughborough,
paul conneally,
peace,
photography,
poetry,
war
Monday, April 27, 2015
Curious Love Splash

Curious Love Splash
world summit to bring you weapons
a big fan not just of peace
these women never die grubby
once upon a future true heroes
finding joy in the gathering
curious love splash
blood and conservation make a bright ballet
seasonal monotone delights
poetic train giving tourists new voice
hand in hand a biting of words
Paul Conneally
11th april 2005
this shreadline piece was originally entitled 'a biting of words'' it was created out of cut up headlines from 'culture' a magazine funded by the uk arts council given away with tyneside newspaper 'the journal'
the artist picked his copy up in the swallow hotel newcastle-upon-tyne
the tuesday after easter 2005
Labels:
art,
chance versus causality,
dada,
paul conneally,
poetry,
text art
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Cinnamon
Labels:
Cats,
curry,
food and drink,
Indian food,
paul conneally,
pets,
pussy,
street photography
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Trees Spreading Their Arms

Two women sit on one of the water drop shaped metal benches in Thurmaston made by sculptor Richard Thornton with a haiku fragment written during the Charnwood Arts project The Sound Of Water workshops that I led with massive support from Jemma Bagley. The words we decided upon are laser cut into the bench, in fact they are cut out of the bench.
The words that these young Muslim women sit on are 'trees spreading their arms'. I'd like to feel that our communities across Charnwood are like these trees, spreading their arms to welcome new members into them, wherever they are from.

Paul Conneally
April 2015
Labels:
architecture,
art,
Charnwood Arts,
community cohesion,
haiku,
paul conneally,
photography,
poetry,
public art
Friday, April 24, 2015
Car Wash
Labels:
blue,
car wash,
cars,
erotic poetry,
haiku,
haiku poetry,
Loughborough,
paul conneally,
photography,
poetry
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Eddie Izzard hits the Labour Party campaign trail in Loughborough

Matthew O'Callaghan and Eddie Izzard in Loughborough Market Place UK
Comedian Eddie Izzard hit the streets of Loughborough in the heart of England to show his support for local Labour Party candidate Matthew O'Callaghan in the UK's 2015 general election.
O'Callaghan could oust sitting Tory MP, Nicky Morgan, from the Loughborough seat which she holds with just a 3,700 majority at the moment. Izzard urged everyone in Loughborough to get out and vote and when they do to vote Labour, vote O'Callaghan.
Izzard is touring the whole of the UK supporting the Labour Party. He volunteered to do the tour to show his personal support for Labour.
Loughborough was bathed in sunshine for Matthew and Eddie's town centre walkabout and they both stopped to have selfies taken with locals out shopping and workers from local shops and businesses.
Paul Conneally
April 22 2015
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Spring Fixture
Labels:
football,
haiku,
paul conneally,
photography,
poetry,
police,
soccer,
street photography
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Parade of Life: Poems Inspired by Japanese Prints

Parade of Life: Poems Inspired by Japanese Prints, came out of my work as haiku poet in residence at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in 2002.
The book publishes poems written by a wide range of participants alongside the Japanese woodblock prints that inspired them.
It was a joy to work with the museum staff and participants over my time with the exhibition and particularly with fellow poet Alan Summers who worked with me in the selection of the poems to be published from the hundreds that were written.
Paul Conneally
April 2014
Friday, April 17, 2015
Carpet Talk
Labels:
Carpet,
Leicester,
magic carpet,
photography,
street photography,
talk,
talking,
UK
Kerb and Tyre Mark - The Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York Group April 2015

The collating / collaging of Colin Murphy and Paul Conneally's long series of photos of the IP kerb and tyre mark by the Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York group and we are back with John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg and their 'Automobile Tire Print - 1953' where Cage made a voluntary tire print for Rauschenberg by driving a car with paint on its wheels along a strip of stuck together sheets of paper - our tyre mark was involuntarily made by some driver or another and spotted by Colin Murphy opposite New Parks Library.

'Automobile Tire Print' Robert Rauschenberg 1953
'Involuntary Painting' is a term first coined in this context by New York based artist Millree Hughes and further developed by Hughes with British artist and poet Paul Conneally.
'Imagine an alien lands on Earth with all the knowledge of modern painting but never having seen one. What might they mistake for a painting as they walk around?'
'Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York' is a project / work conceived by Hughes and Conneally for and with Soft Touch Arts,New Parks Library and local community adults and children in Leicester UK. The project received support from Arts Council England and Leicester City Council.

Members of the 'Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York' work to collage the Involuntary Painting photo series of a kerb and tyre mark by Paul Conneally and Colin Murphy
Leicester April 15 2015
Labels:
art,
Arts Council England,
dada,
Millree Hughes,
New Parks,
New York,
painting,
paul conneally,
Soft Touch Arts
Saturday, April 11, 2015
The Albion Inn - Loughborough

The Albion Inn, Loughborough
The Albion Inn is a traditional English canal side pub.
It's on the canal bank in the heart of Loughborough. To get to it by car requires driving up a single track road along the canal bank itself. Not for the faint hearted at night.
It's a small pub. It doesn't come with many frills.
The pub generally has four ales on sale and food available most days at lunch and in the early evening.
Paul Conneally
April 2015
Labels:
canals,
England,
fishing,
food and drink,
Leicestershire,
Loughborough,
paul conneally,
photography,
pubs,
The Albion Inn
Friday, April 10, 2015
Spider-Man in Loughborough

Spider-Man in Loughborough
The independent supermarket franchise, Nisa, has taken over the only pub in Shelthorpe, Loughborough, The Hunters Moon, and turned it into a shop. Today they were out touting for business with men dressed as Spider-Man standing on Park Road waving to the passing traffic.
Paul Conneally
Loughborough
April 2015
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
SAVAGE NUNEATON - Colin Murphy 2015

'SAVAGE NUNEATON' - Colin Murphy 2015
'SAVAGE NUNEATON' is a frottage piece by Colin Murphy made as part of Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York in New Parks, Leicester.
The piece is one of a number of pieces made by the IP1NPNY group during a session where they met through artists Millree Hughes and Paul Conneally, the work of Max Ernst, then explored and identified 'involuntary paintings' in the area around Aikman Avenue shops in New Parks, near New Parks Library where the group is based, then making frottage, rubbings, of and from them.
The works were made on the day before King Richard III was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral and are collectively called 'The King Richard III Municipal Services Memorial Collection'. Many of the memorial collection feature sewerage manhole covers and other service access plates.
It is a voluntary artwork out of a feature initially identified as an 'involuntary painting'.
The New Parks community involuntary painting group is linked with a group of artists in New York who exchange comments and encouragement with them via the internet.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York is a project conceived by artists Millree Hughes (New York, USA) and Paul Conneally (Loughborough, UK) with and for Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library with support from Arts Council England.
Note: Involuntary Painting is a term invented and coined for use in this context by Millree Hughes and further developed by Hughes with Paul Conneally:
'If an alien landed on Earth programmed with all the knowledge of modern art and painting what might they as they wandered around mistake for a painting?'
These mistakes are what Hughes and Conneally call 'involuntary paintings'. Surfaces and objects marked by time, mould, human and natural activity as stand-ins for the pigment, ground, support etc of voluntary painting, voluntary art.
April 2014
Labels:
art,
dada,
frottage,
involuntary painting,
Leicester,
Max Ernst,
Millree Hughes,
NUNEATON,
painting,
paul conneally,
Soft Touch Arts
Monday, April 06, 2015
Post-War Ceramic Tile Mural St Aidan's Church New Parks Leicester

This mural, our New Parks mural at Saint Aidan’s Church, showing the story of St Aidan, is truly a hidden treasure. Leicester has rightly been excited at the discovery of King Richard III and his reburial in Leicester Cathedral and all the time we have had this King, King Oswald, and a Saint, Saint Aidan, weaving their magic through the great ceramic tile maker and muralist William Gordon. The mural was designed in 1958 and installed in 1959 when the church, designed by architect Sir Basil Spence, who also designed the famous Coventry Cathedral, was completed.
When great culture is sited in over looked or looked down on, working class communities and housing estates it becomes sometimes invisible, it’s worth negated.
Here we see members of the 'Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York' group standing by the mural, one of the greatest surviving post-war tiled ceramic murals in the country.
http://www.c20society.org.uk/murals-campaign/17-william-gordon-ceramic-tile-mural-1959/
After visiting the mural and viewing it, mediated by a photograph of an involuntary painting sent specially to the group, along with a video message, from New York based photographer and artist, Lucien Samaha, the group returned to New Parks Library to decorate tiles of their own.
The New Parks community involuntary painting group is linked with a group of artists in New York who exchange comments and encouragement with them via the internet.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York is a project conceived by artists Millree Hughes (New York, USA) and Paul Conneally (Loughborough, UK) with and for Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library with support from Arts Council England and Leicester City Learning Services PSHE and Citizenship Advisory Service (PCAS)
Note: Involuntary Painting is a term invented and coined for use in this context by Millree Hughes and further developed by Hughes with Paul Conneally:
'If an alien landed on Earth programmed with all the knowledge of modern art and painting what might they as they wandered around mistake for a painting?'
These mistakes are what Hughes and Conneally call 'involuntary paintings'. Surfaces and objects marked by time, mould, human and natural activity as stand-ins for the pigment, ground, support etc of voluntary painting, voluntary art.
April 2015
Sunday, April 05, 2015
REDIFFUSION - Mandy Pegg 2015

REDIFFUSION - Mandy Pegg 2015
REDIFFUSION is a frottage piece made by Mandy Pegg as part of 'Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York' in New Parks, Leicester, March, 2015.
It forms part of The King Richard III Municipal Covers Memorial Collection produced by the New Parks contingent of IP1NPNY after first engaging with works by Max Ernst. The IP1NPNY project also includes a group of artists in New York who exchange comments, involuntary paintings found in New York and encouragement with and for the New Parks group.
'REDIFFUSION' is a frottage piece, a series of rubbings essentially of service covers for cable television services. It is not merely a straight rubbing, Mandy Pegg chooses to place two rubbings together and to use more than one colour wax, red and black. We see the 'RED' of 'REDIFUSION' highlighted in red over the black. It is a voluntary artwork out of features, metal service covers, initially identified as an 'involuntary painting'.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York is a project conceived by artists Millree Hughes (New York, USA) and Paul Conneally (Loughborough, UK) with and for Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library with support from Arts Council England.
Note: Involuntary Painting is a term invented and coined for use in this context by Millree Hughes and further developed by Hughes with Paul Conneally:
'If an alien landed on Earth programmed with all the knowledge of modern art and painting what might they as they wandered around mistake for a painting?'
These mistakes are what Hughes and Conneally call 'involuntary paintings'. Surfaces and objects marked by time, mould, human and natural activity as stand-ins for the pigment, ground, support etc of voluntary painting, voluntary art.
April 2015
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Half-Time Chatter

Before the match a burger and a programme are essentials.
Getting the burger and the programme mixed up would be a disaster.
A mouthful of the first eleven centrefold is unpalatable and no matter how strong your spectacles, making literary sense of a beef burger is nigh on impossible.
half-time chatter
a missed penalty
and a repeating gherkin
Paul Conneally
The King Power Stadium
Leicester April 2015
Labels:
football,
haibun,
haiku,
Leicester City,
paul conneally,
photography,
poetry,
soccer,
sport
ROAD OSWALD ST - Carl Alex Tincknell
'ROAD OSWALD ST' is a frottage piece by Carl Alex Tincknell made as part of Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York in New Parks, Leicester.
The piece is one of a number of pieces made by the IP1NPNY group during a session where they met the work of Max Ernst, explored and identified 'involuntary paintings' in the area around Aikman Avenue shops in New Parks, near New Parks Library where the group is based, and then made frottage, rubbings, of and from them.
The works were made on the day before King Richard III was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral and are collectively called 'The King Richard III Municipal Services Memorial Collection'. Many of the memorial collection feature sewerage manhole covers and other service access plates. This particular work 'OSWALD ROAD ST' is from the road sign for St Oswald's Road directly opposite New Parks Library. On maps, and when people speak of this road it is as St Oswald's Road but the road sign is missing an 'S' hence just 'OSWALD'. Carl decided to alter the order of the words during the rubbing, the frottage process and to move it from an horizontal to a vertical reading.
It is a voluntary artwork out of a feature initially identified as an 'involuntary painting'.
The New Parks community involuntary painting group is linked with a group of artists in New York who exchange comments and encouragement with them via the internet.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York is a project conceived by artists Millree Hughes (New York, USA) and Paul Conneally (Loughborough, UK) with and for Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library with support from Arts Council England.
Note: Involuntary Painting is a term invented and coined for use in this context by Millree Hughes and further developed by Hughes with Paul Conneally:
'If an alien landed on Earth programmed with all the knowledge of modern art and painting what might they as they wandered around mistake for a painting?'
These mistakes are what Hughes and Conneally call 'involuntary paintings'. Surfaces and objects marked by time, mould, human and natural activity as stand-ins for the pigment, ground, support etc of voluntary painting, voluntary art.
April 2015
The piece is one of a number of pieces made by the IP1NPNY group during a session where they met the work of Max Ernst, explored and identified 'involuntary paintings' in the area around Aikman Avenue shops in New Parks, near New Parks Library where the group is based, and then made frottage, rubbings, of and from them.
The works were made on the day before King Richard III was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral and are collectively called 'The King Richard III Municipal Services Memorial Collection'. Many of the memorial collection feature sewerage manhole covers and other service access plates. This particular work 'OSWALD ROAD ST' is from the road sign for St Oswald's Road directly opposite New Parks Library. On maps, and when people speak of this road it is as St Oswald's Road but the road sign is missing an 'S' hence just 'OSWALD'. Carl decided to alter the order of the words during the rubbing, the frottage process and to move it from an horizontal to a vertical reading.
It is a voluntary artwork out of a feature initially identified as an 'involuntary painting'.
The New Parks community involuntary painting group is linked with a group of artists in New York who exchange comments and encouragement with them via the internet.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York is a project conceived by artists Millree Hughes (New York, USA) and Paul Conneally (Loughborough, UK) with and for Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library with support from Arts Council England.
Note: Involuntary Painting is a term invented and coined for use in this context by Millree Hughes and further developed by Hughes with Paul Conneally:
'If an alien landed on Earth programmed with all the knowledge of modern art and painting what might they as they wandered around mistake for a painting?'
These mistakes are what Hughes and Conneally call 'involuntary paintings'. Surfaces and objects marked by time, mould, human and natural activity as stand-ins for the pigment, ground, support etc of voluntary painting, voluntary art.
April 2015
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Sizzle and Spit

Come rain or shine the 'Tasty Treat To Eat' burger wagon is to be found somewhere in Loughborough Market Place.
When business is slack it's time for the chef to sit down and catch up on some reading.
sizzle and spit
the smell of fried onions
through spring drizzle
Paul Conneally
Loughborough
March 2015
Labels:
burger van,
fast food,
haibun,
haiku,
hot dogs,
Loughborough,
paul conneally,
photography,
poetry
The Loughborough Echo Building

The Loughborough Echo Building
For a small town in the centre of England it's good that Loughborough still has its own weekly print newspaper 'The Loughborough Echo'.
The paper is no longer written and produced from the wonderful Art Deco building that carries its name in the centre of Loughborough town. The street level shop fronts in many ways ruin the effect of the building with no attempt made to fit in with the architecture and design of building. It's only when one raises ones head and looks up above the estate agents and holiday company fronts that the beauty of the Loughborough Echo building comes into view.
It's tiled front looks a little worse for wear but stand back in the now pedestrianised high street and the whole building is worth stopping at least a few moments for reflection. Letters proudly spell out 'The Loughborough Echo' and at the apex of the building a decorative horseshoe shaped motif with 'Loughborough' spelled out in the horseshoe shape itself with 'The Echo' in the centre. 'Est.' to the left and '1891' to the right prop up the horseshoe reminding us of just how long The Loughborough Echo has been reporting the news to, of and from the people of Loughborough and the wider area of Charnwood, the Leicestershire borough in which Loughborough sits.
Paul Conneally
March 31st 2015
Paul Conneally
The Good Shepherd
Labels:
architecture,
buildings,
Christ,
church,
churches,
Jesus,
Loughborough,
psychogeography
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Changing Landscapes - Walk the Line - Kings Norton
Changing Landscapes
This video shows people of Kings Norton 3 Estates taking part in Changing Landscapes 'Walk the Line' a Public Artwork comissioned by Birmingham City Council.
Artist Maurice Maguire with Rob Colbourne surveyed the route of the Wast Hill canal tunnel that passes under the Kings Norton 3 Estates Birmingham UK and marked it with blue on the surface. Residents were then invited to meet and join Maurice, Rob, Paul Conneally, Rob Hewitt and others to 'walk the line'.
During the walk participants were encoraged to engage with their surroundings and the canal below them via short talks from Maurice Maguire that gave an insight on the history and importance of the canal tunnel below the estate on the landscape and spaces of the 3 Estaes today. Paul Conneally introduced walkers to haikai ways of seeing everyday things, writing haiku and sharing them back with others in the Kings 3 Cafe after the walk.
Changing Landscapes is an artist led project conceived by Maurice Maguire
Changing Landscapes is curated by Maurice Maguire and Rob Hewitt.
Video and images: Paul Conneally
Music: Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
Labels:
art,
Birmingham,
Changing Landscapes,
England,
haiku,
Kings Norton,
paul conneally,
public art,
Rob Hewitt,
splacist
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
'Kerb and Automobile Tyre Mark St Oswald's Road' - InvoluntaryPainting1 New Parks : New York

'Kerb and Tyre Mark St Oswald's Road'
Millree Hughes & Paul Conneally with Colin Murphy
March 2015
This work comes out of work by artists Millree Hughes and Paul Conneally as part of their project 'Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York' with Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library supported by ACE in New Parks, Leicester, UK.
Local resident Colin Murphy working with Paul Conneally identifies a section of kerb slabs and a tyre mark that runs it's length as an involuntary painting.
Together Colin and Paul photograph the identified involuntary painting in sections using Paul's iPhone.
The tyre mark reminded Colin of Robert Rauschenberg's 'Automobile Tire Print', a voluntary work, which he made with composer John Cage in 1953 and which Hughes (via video link from New York) and Conneally had introduced to the NEW PARKS : NEW YORK group in New Parks Library before they hit the streets around the Library to identify and photograph involuntary paintings.
A series of prints that will be 'stitched' together to form a long roll up image of the kerb and tyre mark is also being constructed by Colin, Paul and Millree with the New Parks IP1NPNY Group, echoing Rauschenberg's 'Automobile Tire Print - 1953'.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York
March 2015
This work comes out of work by artists Millree Hughes and Paul Conneally as part of their project 'Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York' with Soft Touch Arts and New Parks Library supported by ACE in New Parks, Leicester, UK.
Local resident Colin Murphy working with Paul Conneally identifies a section of kerb slabs and a tyre mark that runs it's length as an involuntary painting.
Together Colin and Paul photograph the identified involuntary painting in sections using Paul's iPhone.
The tyre mark reminded Colin of Robert Rauschenberg's 'Automobile Tire Print', a voluntary work, which he made with composer John Cage in 1953 and which Hughes (via video link from New York) and Conneally had introduced to the NEW PARKS : NEW YORK group in New Parks Library before they hit the streets around the Library to identify and photograph involuntary paintings.
A series of prints that will be 'stitched' together to form a long roll up image of the kerb and tyre mark is also being constructed by Colin, Paul and Millree with the New Parks IP1NPNY Group, echoing Rauschenberg's 'Automobile Tire Print - 1953'.
Involuntary Painting 1 New Parks : New York
March 2015
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Note: The term 'Involuntary Painting' was first 'invented', coined and used in this context by artist Millree Hughes. He used it to describe marks on objects, walls, buildings made by the weather, ageing, persons, animals, graffiti, abuse and other means, that he came across in his travels around New York, that seemed to him could be and were similar to modern paintings found in galleries and museums across the world.
Hughes, working with the poet artist and psychogeographer, Paul Conneally, developed the idea further, and together they came up with a simple way to describe what an involuntary painting was in the hope that by identifying and sharing such involuntary paintings they might encourage the reexamination of what painting is, has been and could be.
"Imagine that and alien lands on Earth programmed with all the knowledge of contemporary modern art but never having seen a painting. What might this alien mistake for a painting? These things, never intended as art, as paintings, are what we now propose as involuntary paintings" - Millree Hughes and Paul Conneally 2014
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Waiting For The Chips
in the Supreme Fish Bar
banter and batter
Paul Conneally
Supreme Fish Bar
Loughborough
March 2015
Labels:
England,
fish and chips,
food and drink,
haiku,
Loughborough,
paul conneally,
poetry
Friday, March 20, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
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