Updates!

Since many months have passed since the three Prov's were on display in the show in London it seemed about time got I got back to business. The show was great and it was a real pleasure to be part of it. The Prov's looked great but you might notice that for the sake of space and symmetry Blue Prov stayed in his box! I felt sorry for him a bit but since he is inanimate I realise that this is a bit insane ;)

The day after the private view I took Prov to see the Kurt Schwitters show at Tate Britain to educate him as to his place in Art history. Thanks to persecuted pioneers like Schwitters, I as an artist am able to use every material and freedom known to mankind, including spanners and concepts, to make a Prov. I came home charged up and inspired and made a self portrait on a tennis racket.

If you would like to help me with my project you can follow him on Twitter @provenanceman He will follow you back. Like him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/provenanceman and I will NOT spam you loads. If I did that he might have more likes already! 

If you are 'somebody' and everything you touch turns to gold then you could sign him and give me a photo for the archive. What is in it for you? maybe he'll become an art object that you'd be glad be associated with! like Duchamp's urinal. I certainly won't stop until he is! but I will not sell him at any price so I'm not going to make a profit. If you would like to make a profit on a Prov then you can! The three Prov's are currently for sale at £200 each. They are second generation and therefore made fitter and stronger than Prov. I remade them several times before the show to a high standard. They come with their own box, tags, merchandise and provenance. I value them much higher than £200 believe me and if the right buyer invests in one then the sky is the limit with the value. I might put the price up any time, I'm regretting it already! but I would like them out working it in the world. The project is an experiment into POTENTIAL value and they do not belong on a shelf. Consider this... remember Peter Blake's Sgt Peppers album cover? Do you know how much he got paid for it? I'll tell you: £200. Do you know what is the most valuable record cover ever?  http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/60196

Just sayin'

I have decided to put Prov to work and he has been busy in the Studio

He has a way to go but I have high hopes, so watch this space!

Prov page three

This is page 3 of a comic strip my dad did. It is very silly and Prov was not born in a garage but he is made out of a spanner. If you want to catch up on pages 1 and 2 see March and April. Other pages to follow..

21/12/2012

Pink Prov got so trashed at his hotel room on Friday that he's currently held together with rubber bands! This new generation of Provenance Men really know how to party. Now that they have lived a little and when I've fixed Pink Prov, all three will go back in their boxes and will officially go on sale to the public. At long last!

Website

If you are interested in my project 'Provenance Man' you might be interested in my other work too. For this reason I have created  a website Check it! Nice one k8 http://katefc.wix.com/imadethisforyou

Top of the Props

This is my top ten of my prize possessions in no particular order:

  Two biscuit tins designed by Mike Hill. On the right one if you look closely in the bushes you will see some dogs humping! (50p charity shop.) On the left one the man in the foreground is offering the lady a spliff! (£40 Ebay)

A traditional souvenir from Majorca from a holiday with Pam in 2002

A clay dog from a series about Laika, the Russian dog that went into space by Gill

A Scottish pound note from Pam

A charm bracelet from my boyfriend and my sister

A present from a friend

Ammonite pendant from Preston flea market 

A rosary also from the market. I like them because they are heavy.

My new colander shaped like an Angel fish

and Prov :)

The Street Art of Conversation

P3dro is a Liverpool based photographer who tracked down Prov on the internet and was one of the first people to follow him on Twitter. He was interested in the project and we had a conversation for his website: http://www.p3dro.co.uk/  We met up and I told him all about the Provenance Man project and he took this lovely portrait of Prov! He takes such gorgeous photographs of my work and It is really nice to know that someone is out documenting it so well. Thanks P3dro :) Make sure you check out his work everyone! k8

Tomo or not Tomo?

Me and my niece took Prov along to see the nominees of the Liverpool Art Prize at Metal situated in Edge Hill Station yesterday. They were all so kind to us! making me cups of tea and showing us around. We spent ages in The Drawing Paper's (Chris Carney and Jon Barraclough's) drawing room with loads of paper, crayons and endless things to draw. There are lots of ideas for drawings and if you put your pictures in the pigeon holes they may well be included in the exhibition! 

Robyn Woolston's Room is full of recycled plastic forks and knives which crunch under foot

in a really satisfying way. They surround a recycled tree under a neon light. I really enjoyed it and so did the baby! 

Alan Dunn is a sound artist and his room was filled with cabinets of his inspirations and souvenirs from his travels collecting sounds. There are computers and headphones to listen to sounds including poetry to pulses from space. There are four CDs of sounds to take with you.

At first when we headed up two flights to Tomo's room, I thought he had drawn the short straw but I took it back when I got up there.

It's a lovely room and the headquarters of Tomo Securities! On his desk an old photocopier which he has used to print his forms.If you fill one in and put it in the box, he will send you an original screen print to put your window. He is such a generous artist and so modest, you just know he works for the joy of it. I think his skills as an artist go beyond nice pictures because they are combined with clever ideas.

Vote Tomo for peoples choice!

Also my niece would like to point out that if you  look out of the windows you will see PURPLE TRAINS! and bunny rabbits.

Don't miss it 

x

Scream if you want an old master

A Copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream is expected to fetch $80'000'000 dollars in an auction at Sotherby's this Wednesday. The highest price they have ever estimated. There is four versions made by the artist between 1893 and 1910, two painted in Tempera, one with crayon and this one is done in pastels. All the other copies are in museums but it is predicted that only a private individual will be able to afford this gem.
Although their are a few wealthy Munch collectors out there with their hands in, there a others who will bid for it purely as a status symbol. It is so universally recognised and iconic that to own it would to be gain a bit of it's glory by association.

Unlimited Edition

If you want one of these brand new original, unlimited edition, hand printed portraits of Prov, Please 'like' him on Facebook, Follow him on Twitter or follow this blog and send me an e-mail or a private message with an address and I will send you one! I am very generous so the envelope will probably end up packed with goodies :) The earlier the date on your print the more it will be worth, I'm sure of it!

Prov. Page two, by Bob Cousins

Follow Me and I'll Follow You (and we'll go in circles ;)

Help make Prov the most famous sculpture on Twitter! He has just reached 600 followers, lets add some zero's! also don't forget to 'like' him on Facebook, no sculpture ever went down in history with 23 likes ;) Prov also wants to follow you too, unless you're a Spambot !

Head and shoulders above the rest

This is Prov meeting Moai Hava from Easter Island. He is made from Basalt and weighs two and a half tons. It was collected by the crew of the English ship HMS Topaze, under the command of Richard Ashmore Powell, on their visit to to Easter Island in 1868 and is on loan from The British Museum to The World Museum, Liverpool. Provenance is all about the interesting history an object has, so just imagine what this feller has seen in his lifetime! He is like a stone celeb to Prov :)

Prov, page one.by Bob Cousins

Richard and Jealous!

Yesterday I took Prov to see 'Richard and Famous' at the Open Eye Gallery, Richard Simpkin has had his photo taken with many a famous face. If he had his own Provenance Man imagine what it would be worth! We would also like to recommend Henny Acloque's show at Ceri Hand Gallery. The last show before it moves to London :(  

A wretch invades!

Prov, you little Wretch! It's a good job he's full of Forgiveness ;)

(Artwork by Bob Cousins)

Provoking debate

If you have followed Prov from the begining, you will know that Prov is a twin. This weekend I took his brother to London to hand him over to his new owner. Every experiment needs a control which does not change and that is Provs brother. He will kept out of the limelight and will be given no provenance and therefore can be used to compare with the value of Provs provenance. Here he is checking out the protest at St Pauls Cathedral. The Provenance Brothers are capitalist by nature because socialist sculptures would all be worth the same! We had a nice time looking around and meeting a few lovely folks while we had our lunch. I then took him to Tate Modern to see his place in art history before he is put on the shelf for good.

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Prov