Chrissie Todd

I have recently read Raphael Rubinstein's review* on Julian Schnabel, the American artist and film maker. Below are my key take-aways...

Here are some of the things that I have been puzzling through the last two weeks. How can I work with materials to reveal more of what...

Mid year assessment went well. I have a couple research ideas and feelings of knowing where I am heading. Theories I plan to learn more...

Working with salvaged wood and paint forces my hand to work with any flaws the material might have. The intention behind the choice of...

I have been thinking a lot about what I am planning to present for mid year and what I want the installation is going to look like. Here...

My studio mess. Lately I have been trusting the process of my making more. I have been trying to let the work evolve as it goes, working...

I've been thinking about what the difference is between my better works compared with my shitty works. I think the main thing is that...

I've decided that I am overthinking too much, so the aim for the next little while is to just make. There is a place for context, but...

A continuing problem in my work is how the material I've ben using as a painting surface has over-powered the image I paint on the...

There are so many types of paint. Not only are there many types of paint, there are many types of paint interactions with other paints,...

I've been thinking about what drives me to create. We had a lecture in the recent seminar about practice statements and how to break down...

Concepts and Constructs was the theme of the week. Our week was packed with artist talks, gallery visits and the the all important crits....

I really enjoy problem solving. Some of the fun of creating is working with the things that are going against you, and using them to...

At the beginning of this week there was torrential rain which flooded my studio. Thankfully most of my work was fine, although I did have...

At the moment I am exploring what I can do with hessian to make it an interesting paining surface, and what I can use as paint. Below are...

I was getting hung up on theory. I have a tendency to overthink, and that was inhibiting my creating. So for a little while I am...

Both Dystopia and Utopia exist. There is no separating one from the other. They are intrinsically bound. They are the western Yin and...

Imogen Taylor uses transparent primer. Her use of it may be rooted in her early employment at a professional art supplies shop, along...

I miss the textured feeling of Hessian. There is one major problem I find when I am painting Hessian. That problem is priming the...

Why a Cave? I've been thinking a lot lately about how humans today are basically the same physiologically as the first Homo Sapiens who...