To investigate and expand on ideas that emerged towards the end of my postgraduate research; the presence of the body, a desire to explore materials more fully and the importance of space- to think, move, and make intuitively


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Again its been an excessively long time and it makes me wonder, why blog if not consistently? I like the idea, yet so many other things seem to be the priority, making work for a start-I’m continuing on with my series of drawings and am now up to 49, which doesn’t seem many given that its only 13 drawings since April. I guess teaching, having a garden makeover to accommodate a new and slightly bigger studio all sinks time. The build starts this weekend, sounds grand, it is to me, a space to draw and make without falling over stuff…


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I am still here honest, I’ve been continuing with my drawing and I think by number 33 in the series I seem to be making my mark…

I think this one is number 19 though I’ve found that I am very inconsistent in my tracking/recording and need to find a simple way to organise the photographs and detail shots-what is the best way to do that?

Also been out and about rather a lot seeing exhibitions and going to talks, most recently Psychoanalysis and Art Process with Grayson Perry in conversation with Valerie Sinason, Freud Museum http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75386/psychoanalysi…

and Richard Deacon in Conversation with Lewis Biggs Tate Britain http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/talks…

And this is what I’ve been looking at, check them out:

http://parasol-unit.org/canan-tolon

http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/event/displays-simon-fujiwara/

http://www.beerscontemporary.com/exhibitions

http://london.korean-culture.org/navigator.do?menuCode=200903170054&action=VIEW&seq=51618&promImg=&subImg=

the last one was curated by Serge Martynov with innovative use of display and props

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2071/ellen-gallagher-new-work/view/

http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2094/dieter-roth-arnulf-rainer-y-collaborations/view/

http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/miroslaw_balka_die_traumdeutung_2531m_amsl_masons_yard_2014/

http://www.pacegallery.com/london/exhibitions/12614/james-turrell

http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/futuremap

I also went to WW Gallery


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I’m not going to make any excuses for not blogging. I’ve just been busy with the other stuff of life, even had a mini holiday in Truro where I took lots of photo’s of dilapidated boats. Funny how the boat form is a recurring interest perhaps I should make one?


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Its been ages I know. I’m developing the garland idea through drawing and when I’ve satisfied I’ve followed through on the drawings I’m going to make some more garlands. I may skip the framing because of the difficulty in maintaining them in the frame as they deteriorate…


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It really is tricky maintaining art practice, talking about it on your blog and underpinning it with research. And despite promising that I would keep my online presence up-to-date I am nevertheless finding it exceptionally difficult…

I can see that others find aspects of practice difficult too, whether it’s how to bring work into being, show it, have an audience engage with it-or not- and pursue the right ‘opportunities’ with often lengthy applications

I feel I am discerning with my applications yet they seem to take an awful lot of time to complete and when I select images I fret at how long it is since I actually ‘practiced’ anything!

So this week I’m going to plan my studio days, stop procastinating and make sure I spend the allotted time actually playing around with one of the many ideas on my list

In the meantime here’s some images of fairly recent work…


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