Installation of "I'm Your Biggest Fan"...

So, this week I have been installing my final piece of work of my university course, and in my opinion, my best work to date. The work is concerned with not only the idolisation of the celebrity, but also the decline of traditional drawing techniques in contemporary art. The presentation of my traditional drawings of Dave is the contemporary aspect of my work, contrasted by the traditional drawing seen in my work. The piece has 208 drawings in total, which is a play on Dave's date of birth:

3/10/1983

310 -19 -83 = 208

Here are some images of the work...

Day 1- My Space

Day 2- Gum Strip

Day 3- New Wall

Day 4- Installation commences...

Day 5- Installation Complete

Day 5-

Day 5-

Day 6- Minor Adjustments

Day 6- Finished with painted floor...

Greestone 42

Here is my image and statement for the forthcoming exhibition- Greestone 42...

THE CELEBRITY + THE FAN + THE REMOTE BOND

“The celebrity is a part of the fan audiences everyday life and as remote as imaginable. The celebrity is thus both intimate and distant.”[1]

I create work focusing on my idol: Dave McPherson, through repetitive drawing to give the sense of the “obsessive fan”. Although each drawing is completed separately, it is when the drawings are all viewed together that they speak of this obsessive nature. The binding element of the work is Dave's music: creating an equation of three elements: Dave (the celebrity), me (the fan) and his music (the remote bond). The drawings then become an attempt-by the fan-to reduce the metaphorical and literal distance discussed by Nayar, while also trying to imply the construction of intimacy between the fan and idol.

[1] Nayar, Pramod K. Seeing Stars: 2009; 159

"I know you probably hear this everyday, but Im your biggest fan..."

So, above you can see that I have (partially) decided on a name for my piece. There have been many little logistical twists and turns in the background to this idea, and although the main concept is the same, and the drawings continue, I am still finalising things like how to present the work, how to install, and other issues.

Below I have posted some pictures trying to show this, and my most probable means of presentation. The idea here is that horizontally I will present the drawings that I did that day, next to that will be the drawings on the following day and so on. This then shows the daily influence of the idol on the fan that is discussed in my statement.