Blogs - a-n The Artists Information Company

an account of my a-n Artist Bursary professional development

Hortus is a project which involves research into early practices of collecting and cataloguing as exemplified by the sixteenth century botanic gardens and libraries of Padua (IT) and Leiden (NL).

My lens-based artist practice had led me to discover a new way of merging video with reality. I wanted to find out what I could do with this this new invention and learn the digital skills I needed to make work with it.

I will develop making my work accessible to children using an extract from my performance Unknown Statue integrating Makaton language to communicate signs & symbols within the work. Supported by a-n bursary 2019 programme supporting self-determined professional development.

Bringing together ideas about growth, transmutation and evolution in a period of rapid social, political, environmental and technological change.

Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not

  The increasingly intense exploration of drawing… and the threads between words, music and a bundle of old clothes…

New Year, New blog charting progress in 2019

Developing the use of everyday choreographies, movement, gestures, performative texts, and encounter as process for translating into peripheral and public spaces.

About being a disabled artist late in life

How on earth to continue a practice with no income??? Dealing with financial abuse and neglect.

Dwell time: The time a train spends at a scheduled stop without moving. Typically, this time is spent boarding or alighting passengers, but it may also be spent waiting for traffic ahead to clear, or idling time in order to get back on schedule.

I have a great NEW STUDIO. Can’t wait to move in and push more boundaries in paint.

out and about with the Fruit Factory Network based at Humber Street Gallery; encountering, reflecting, acting…

A collation of my research into rural arts, what it means, the challenges and what others have been up to in this area.