105 drawings made during the performance ‘Drawn from scratch’ in ink gouache and pen on scraps of paper/card found and collected. The images chart the flow of the performance over a 2 day period and reveal a wealth of trance induced imagery. They would make an amazing publication as remnants of a process based live work. I am seeking funding to produce a book of high quality reproductions of these drawings.
Shaun Caton and Nicolas Gonzales present the almost impossible: photographed dreams. 27th March to 19th April at the Viewfinder Photography Gallery, Greenwich. Visit the Viewfinder Photography Gallery website to find out more.
The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 14th and 15th February 2009. A performance over 2 days in 2 parts. Drawing in a trance induced state. Drawing with coloured light reflected from hand mirrors. Drawing with shadows in red/green. I made 105 drawings on scraps of paper. Performance soundtrack composed by brownsierra and GSB. Photographs by Beth Greenhalgh. See the images…
bookartbookshop Hoxton, presents the rich and densely layered dream diaries and recycled book art of local visual artist, experimental poet/performer Shaun Caton. Thickly encrusted pages heave with a tumultuous glut of collaged photographs, delirious word fragments, unintentional Rorschach ink stains, found urban sound poems, copperplate insignia, lost and found imaginary letters, recordings of dreams since the 1980’s whilst undergoing voluntary pharmaceutical testing as a means to funding life as a jobbing performance artist, frenzied ballpoint and crayon drawings, effulgent melting autographs of invented personae, catalogues of the curious and outré, grotesque anatomical anomalies, Polaroid manipulations, over painted cartoons, chronicles of a hyper active consciousness teetering on the ragged edges of concertinaed pages, sandwiched, slashed, and pasted from discarded 19th century tomes, the plethora of thumbed and fading snapshots scrawled with muted utterances from beyond the grave…Caton’s books are an absolute visual delight and evolve over extended time periods; a page may take several days, a week, or a month to ‘ realise ‘. Working on a variety of themes in his traveling and makeshift studio, from prehistoric imagery derived from numerous visits to cave sites in France where he has studied ice age paintings and signs, to voluminous and truncated journals that encapsulate the minutiae of his daily experiences, these are iconic books, collated and collapsing with text and bizarre imagery. (more…)
An exhibition of hand made journals and recycled book art by patients from the RNRU at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.Bookartbookshop Hoxton, presents for the first time an inspiring selection of hand made journals, copiously collaged, and interactive recycled books created by long stay patients with acquired and traumatic brain injuries from the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit at Homerton Hospital. (more…)
This was my first live performance for a period of seven years. I had a year and a half to plan and ferment the idea of the performance, which was a part of a huge international festival of performance art in the United Kingdom. The Trace Gallery is unique (possibly in the world) in that it only presents the work of time based artists. The Director, Andre Stitt, invited me to use the gallery space and knew my work from the 1980’s and 90’s and encouraged me to re-evaluate my position. My performance used real ice age fossil animal teeth, sculptures made from found materials and objects, powder pigment, a curious enclosure made from sticks and tape (upon which I stuck many poems, drawings and words). (more…)