
Bulb experiments
Recently I’ve been exploring making domestic objects useless as their intended purpose. I’ve had lots of fun with the project so far and I still have more work to come, but this has been a new way of working for […]
Recently I’ve been exploring making domestic objects useless as their intended purpose. I’ve had lots of fun with the project so far and I still have more work to come, but this has been a new way of working for […]
Presented at the ‘What Is? Collective’ event, Heads Up Festival, Hull, March 2018.
Following an artist-led community engagement intervention on the Trees Estate, Preston
I’m slowly figuring out what exactly it is that I want to convey through my work. I’m finding it difficult because I work quite intuitively with materials, so I tend to reflect on what it is I’m trying to say […]
Reflecting on the experience of opening a gallery in an area simultaneously denigrated, marred and celebrated for its unique political history,
Something I’ve been really considering with my work this term is how to display pieces. My degree show is coming up really fast and it’s forcing me to consider different ways to display my work. For this piece in particular […]
XSexcentenary appearing at Glasgow International 2018. Register for our events, make alternative mourning clothes, be part of the Necropolis procession and more……
Professional Development Bursary 2016
Study of foil placed on window- exploring it’s colour and reflections, studying the way in which it can be transformed as a material.
This body of work explores the collaborative relationship between Emily Hartless and Anna Rogers.
A project I have planned coming soon, using petri dishes, was influenced by Sonja Baumel’s work where she lays her body into a large petri dish (acting like the canvas) and lets the bacteria from her body grow (acting like […]
I really enjoy working with organic materials in my practice. There’s something almost quite wrong about it, as though I’m breaking some kind of rule or something. Hair is something I’ve found myself working with this year. This is one […]
In my adolescence, I visited the artist, my father, in his London flat. There was a room designated for the studio; I could not smell turps or white spirit; I could not see a Francis Bacon tsunami licking the prosaic […]
I’m currently in the last term of university at Carmarthen School of Art, and this term I’ve been focusing on working with domestic, every day objects. My aim is to experiment with them and try to make them useless in […]
During 2018 to July 2019 I am one of ten artists working as part of a project, ‘Surrey Unearthed’ across the Surrey Hills. I am an artist and papermaker and work by walking, collecting, interacting with people and making.
Reflections on what turned out to be rather life altering.
Observing and recording the everyday, the landscape changing constantly, my journeys through each day present new experiences for me to note and capture: moving images; macro images; moments in time. All inspiring me to reiterate through my work, using video, […]
Thank you to RD1st for delivering such amazing training and enabling a supportive network to thrive afterwards. Thank you to A-n for offering the training and enabling me to take part in such a life changing experience – I wish […]
I have found it difficult until now to know what to write for on my coaching blog. I don’t really use social media so putting my voice online I find a tricky thing to do as I am not sure […]
An artist struggling to create art in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Reflecting on the ‘Maggie monument’ debate and commemorative arts as an artist working today
How things map out is so often purely coincidental. Here I am, sitting at a farmhouse table an hour’s travel outside Saskatoon, a place I had never even heard of. The sun is hot, a gentle breeze and the ticks […]
A diary of art making and influences for a year.
The artistic, social and political challenges of working on three ceramic art projects.