Ideas about practices
Blog about everyday struggles in artmaking practice
Blog about everyday struggles in artmaking practice
Am preparing footage and packing techy gear for my trip to Australia where I will be developing my ‘Sounds of Space’ project in collaboration with the Australian National University in Canberra
I am a member of Centrepieces mental health arts project (based in LB Bexley), which is a charity that helps adults in their mental health recovery through art. Centrepieces provides the resources for people to participate in art workshops and activities and to exhibit and sell.
What a time to be alive, my friends! Shinichi Sawada Untitled (72), 2018. Photo by Ellie Walmsley, from JenniferLaurenGallery.com The internet was not around when I was just a grubby urchin clambering through the rock pools of Hunstanton, […]
Making a piece of work for art/archaeology
Exploring the work during my first Artist Residency at CFCCA in Manchester.
Artist residency at Limbo Project Space, Margate
The Circuit – A Movement Scenario
Scaling up from small twigs to tree trunks
An update on the internet research I have been doing about the care facilities within Fylde, Blackpool and Wyre.
Small Town Inertia by J A Mortram inspires hope at the Workers Gallery
This blog charts my 2019 a-n Bursary trip in The UK looking at Automata models and movements, and learning new wire skills. It’s a physical journey, but also a time of movement and change after illness and travelling towards a new artistic practice.
Why aren’t there female leaders who identify as neuro-divergent in the arts and academia? Who are the gatekeepers? What needs to change?
These latest ceramic pieces are inspired by my fascination for the elements- Wind, water, fire… I am a huge fan of Chinese healing medicine, taoism and the shamanic practice of ancient China. They share the same principles. That are the […]
Introduction to a new practice pilot project.
As a twenty-year-old working-class lad from Hull, I looked into a mirror in the back bedroom of my parent’s council house and drew myself (above). Capturing a moment in time with a simple pencil. It wasn’t bad. It showed some […]
8 years ago my life crashed. I’ve been rebooting ever since. Just about coming on line again now, logging in, ready to get to work.
As a teaching artist, I am always looks for ways to improve the quality of their drawing and painting skills, as well as their well-being.
This blog is part of a series of posts documenting my experience on Essential Digital Skills for Museum Professionals, a Mu.SA (Museum Sector Alliance) course. Mu.SA is an EU network of museums and cultural organisations. Over the next eight weeks, I […]
A Technical Report on Drawing as Octochronoplasmantic Evidence || Meta-Neuronic Design for Impossible Theatres
A continuation of my theme “Resistance in the face of Aggression”, these pieces are based upon nuclear bunkers, primarily the Secret Bunker in Fife, Scotland which I visited and took sketches and photographs as the basis of my paintings, which are all oil on canvas.
This post is about an interdisciplinary event held last October at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, KCL. It enacts and is part of #MagicCarpet, an Unlimited Commission funded by ACE, and aims to irritate prescribed notions of (an)normality and wellbeing.
As an artist, photographer, writer or creative entrepreneur there’s nothing we understand more through our working life than resilience. And what is this resilience?