A year or so after leaving art school and then having to leave my home in the forest I moved into a council estate in nearby Thetford.

As a young artist at the beginning of my career, and with the whole vast world to try to make sense of, I would collate drawings, photographs, drawings on photographs, texts, cuttings etc on A5 index cards. Whatever I was making, an element of it would have a life on an A5 card.

This was, of course, long before the digital revolution. Some work would grow beyond the confines of A5 and I also made individual A4 box files - all of which were, in themselves, 'the work'.

'Index Cards' - Newsboard - May 1975

Index Card / photograph (5" x 8"/ 127 x 203mm) illustrating Newsboard May 1975 -  made within, and as part of, an art exhibition in the Guildhall, Thetford, Norfolk. 'Newsboard'  is in the form of a calender with 31 segments representing the 31 days of May 1975.  Each 'picture of the day' was a photograph taken from the news media of the day - depicting a starving person.  On each day of the month a small drawing was made on graph paper - composed of 10,000 dots . . .

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'Index Cards' - a waste of time

Index Card (5" x 8" / 127 x 203mm) with pencil drawing    

17/03/1980    3.15pm - 4.36pm                                                                                    

18/03/1980  11.56am - 4.20pm 

19/03/1980  11.45am - 4.50pm

20/03/1980    2.10pm - 5.15pm

21/03/1980  11.35am - 6.06pm

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Dartmouth Park Avenue

A sheet of drawings made at my lodgings in Highgate, London during my final year (studying Fine Art) at St Martin's School of Art.

Exhibited:

2019   'Drawn from Life' - a solo exhibition at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria

2018   'Drawings by Alan Stones' - a solo exhibition at Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria, Carlisle

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