Each painting measures 1 metre x 1 metre, acrylic on canvas. I. The Summer of The Three Investigators. Balanced on the threshold of realisation. II. People will Think we’re Twins, or They Know of Us, but They Don’t Know Us. Voyeuristically we watch the children from afar. Their expression prevents us from engaging with...
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Rachael Adams is an artist, predominantly a painter. Soon after graduating from Brighton (Fine Art, Painting) in 1986, she expanded her practice to include typography, photography and graphic digital media. The subject matter of her work focuses on the social, class and personal labyrinths we exist in; conventions which we are conditioned to inhabit....
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Scrutineer’s Investigation into Narrative Project #001: Schematic Sequence A Fine Art Project made up of 49 canvasses, each measuring 1 metre x 1 metre. The Artist seeks validation through a process of reason and example. The construction of a narrative through a series of single images. The grid: Seven Rows of paintings, with seven columns. Forty-nine...
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Rachael Adams: Designer, Illustrator, Archivist, Website Creator and A Best Chum to Mr Watkin Sadly, the remaining copies of David’s autobiography were destroyed after probate to his estate was granted. Designed, produced and published by Scrutineer’s. Preface: David Watkin’s life has been an uncanny fusion of luck and intelligence, and at no stage has...
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Commissioned during the Construction of St Pancras International… Short animated film commissioned by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Written, directed & animated by The Scrutineer Scrutineer’s, in association with CORBER, URN & RLE, present a short history of the station commonly known as St Pancras. With comments being made for an alert workforce, on...
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The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ US, 1958, 108m, Metrocolor, MGM/Avon, directed by Richard Brooks. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, & Burl Ives. The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for this film reveals a portrayal of family conflict in layers and depth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof conveys Tennessee Williams’...
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BTEC AT NORTHBROOK The Scrutineer tutored in Fine Art & Design at Northbrook College, Worthing for 10 years (often under the guise of Studio Support). Teaching a 16-19 year old is surprisingly satisfying. One minute their annoyingly sarcastic and gobby arrogance has you sending them off to the canteen for fear they’d end up...
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Example: Portrait Project Monday to Friday, 10:00am-4:00pm, February 2008 Fairly ad hoc, with two students: All singing, all dancing, Barry Martin (stage name: Barry Heywood). New media graduate Sita Vickery The Scrutineer cracking the whip and only revealing each task as the day begins. Barry and Sita relatively new to this kind of observational...
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Banter & Bustle was reviewed in The Telegraph by Andrew Baker, saying of Jeff Scott: “(Banter & Bustle)…will also one day fascinate football historians. He has photographed Sunderland fans, home and away, but the book should appeal beyond supporters of the Black Cats. He has a great knack for making the banal look compelling...
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Shale Britannia: a Sideways Glance at Speedway A Poignant Photography book by Jeff Scott, who teamed up with designer and fine artist Rachael Adams to produce a unique pictorial record of British speedway. Waves of nostalgia regularly sweep our cultural lives, as we search for a more idyllic time in our recent past –...
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Screenshots of an early Flashy driven web-sight… Tweet
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The Scrutineer designed a series of six posters for use in Waitrose stores throughout the country. They were displayed behind the scenes, in storerooms, warehouses, canteens and staff common rooms. Commissioned by Brighton based multimedia production company Partners WM, who specialised in the production of training and internal communication products for Waitrose. See the...
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HP Corporate Business CD-Rom The Scrutineer designed screens for Hewlett Packard’s intranet, training CD-Roms + packaging, SellDesktop campaign, annual sales conferences, (logo’s, powerpoint slides & marketing material) and presentations Tweet
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The Scrutineer, like a cross between the Child-catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a cross-hatching Mother Goose, has begun an Annual Project… The Advent Street Tweet
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Scrutineer's published this famous cinematographer's autobiography 'Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag?'. Unfortunately the stock of books, which were kept at David's home, were destroyed by his beneficiary after his death.
