Stig Evans, Derek Jarman and Sudoku: True Colours

There is a short video of Stig Evans's work at the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton on YouTube. You can watch it by clicking here.

Image: Colour Sudoku by Stig Evans.

Here are a couple pictures from Stig's event True Colours at Fabrica on 13 May 2010:

In this picture: Stig, Mark, Janet and me in front of Stig's colour sudoku game and print. Between three of us we managed to complete the colour sudoku board in about half an hour. When I was playing it I noticed that I was mostly concentrating on the horizontal arrangement of the colour blocks. Other players seemed to have a preference for vertical lines. Another friend looked over my shoulder and was able to scan all individual squares containing 9 colours each in an instant.

Stig also noted that a lot of people seemed to enjoy "touching colour", playing with the painted wooden blocks.

This is Stig's colour stage box, where a handful of very small people look at a colour chosen, described and re-named by one of the festival visitors every day. It is playful, intriguing and reminds me of  Derek Jarman's last film Blue, where the viewer looks at an entirely blue screen for most of the film.

Derek Jarman in front of Blue (1993)