Doodling Doodles
Ice Ice Baby Arm Two, Tim Moore, 2011
Tim Moore hard at workTim Moore loves to embroider. And he has a very cheeky sense of humour. After completing a Bachelor of Three Dimensional Design at Brighton University, he had a brief foray in jewellery design (which made him unhappy) and then a stint graphic design. It was his love of doodling however that lead to embroidery. Forgetting his sketchpad and pens, on a long-haul flight he took to the sick bag with a sewing kit, and the rest is history.
He has an eye for the absurd, taking his inspiration from a stock of hunting, fishing and nudist magazines that tickle his fancy. His canvas of choice: vintage Sicilian or Irish linen, and he uses silk or metallic thread.
What’s the point of that?, Tim Moore, 2007
On the piss with Steve Davis, Tim Moore, 2007
Bande eccellenti del cavallo del hero, Tim Moore, 2008
‘They all come under the ridiculing eye of Moore, who likes to rub it in with his own love for puns with titles such as the Made up Fish series, which depicts fish with cosmetically enhanced eyes and lips. In the same vein, the Sew Natural series plays on the medium of sewing and the irony of sewing nudes on the very fabrics they shun. Hanging out at Lake Flacid (2010) depicts a pyramid of formation water skiers with their penises dangling from their trousers in happy but flaccid dashes of pale pink – there is variation between the penis sizes with the largest belonging to the flag waving top-rung skier.
Moore’s latest body of work, Ice Ice Baby Arm, depicts ice-skaters in compromising poses oblivious to the penises which dangle from the male’s tights. In Ice Ice Baby Arm 2 (2011) the penis, at first glace, charmingly appears to be part of the female skater’s hat. … There is also something of the utopian childhood joy associated with Moore’s depictions; after all, these are not the threatening phalluses of aggression, but playful sausage-rolls of insouciance.’ [From Tim Moore, by Gillian Serisier, Artist Profile Issue 15, 1 June 2011]
He says of his work, “I’m a dick doodler. It’s whimsy and fun. There might be some deep-rooted thing, but I don’t know. Maybe I should go and speak to someone. I just think whimsical dick drawings and dick doodles are generally fairly funny,” says Moore.
They are funny – after the first innocent perusal one blinks, then giggles. Visit Helen Gory Galerie for more.
Ice Ice Baby Arm Four, Tim Moore, 2011
A Tri Dangle, Tim Moore, 2011