ARTISTS TALKING

# 4 [5 January 2009]

As my working methods are very much based on research, much of my residency was used for this purpose and it is first now I have returned to London that I have had time to start editing my other result from the Jeckels Foundation Residency.

It is a short video picture which initially was supposed to be based on a artist party from a well known painting from the area but in a winter setting with local artists from the area but ended up being called The Crisis Meeting and being inspired by the difficulties I found in trying to collaborate with the other artists and the curators at the local art museum in the area as well as a heafty dose of the Credit Crunch and its effects on artists in the comming year. Hence I ended up posing for all the parts.

So my piece is quite start in its outlook and hence the HD video is in greys.

It was also inspired by a book of local photographs taken at and around the historic Jeckels Hotel in the late 19th and early 20 th century, which was where I stayed in a hotel flat with an adjacent studio.

# 3 [24 December 2008]

I created a performance video which at the moment have the working title of MOLTERN STATES.

It is inspired by the the meeting seas and the fustration I have felt when the people you were relying on lets you down, but then I am sure this happens for most artists in residencies.

# 2 [23 December 2008]

At the moment I am am working on a performance video with a working title of MOLTEN STATES.

It is inspired by the seas but also a certain amount of fustration I have felt in regards to people that promished to assist me in another project I was creating and then didn't but I am sure other artist have the same experiences often.

# 1 [23 December 2008]

. There is unfortunately no artist colony there today just a museum to commemorate them and some of the dwellings they inhabited have been made into museums.During my residency I will be creating a video pictures and new body of sculptural work