Chris Barham, with my assistance, is creating an interactive installation. Our interest lies within the terrain of self-generated audience participation. Can an artwork or environment present a situation in which the viewer feels safe enough, or enticed enough to engage […]
is an evolving site-specific installation based on construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of an expanding lexicon of objects and assemblages. The process is rooted in one prototype collage that I make into actual objects which I assemble onto each site. I […]
Advocating better working conditions for artists. Following on from where ‘Getting Paid’ left off.
As the visual arts officer in Halton, based at the Brindley Arts Centre in Runcorn, I manage a wide variety of projects, curate exhibitions and work with many interesting artists. There’s always so much going on that it’s difficult to […]
A space for review and reflection of my own practice and others.
Hidden Landscapes Project is an Arts Council funded research and development project. Focusing on the fringes of the town Letchworth Garden City in North Hertfordshire, the project will involve individual research, collaborative engagement and a discourse with the town, its […]
My next performance will be concerned with the seemingly opposite actions, drawing and running. I will over a week run between 5 venues, some arts based and some non-arts based whilst drawing. This is planned for May in 2012 the […]
In 1981 I made a video called ‘when was NOW’. All these years later I am making Version 2 of this video. My concerns were initially with the inherent contradiction of what we regard as the ‘here and now’ – […]
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‘Time to think’ I find myself returning to a dream that I had many years ago, whose meaning escapes me, but which was so ‘pure’ that perhaps it’s now time to excavate it a little. In the dream I see […]
Notes on work, working, making work, and all the stuff that goes into being an artist
The ‘Pariah Temperament’ (Alethea Hayter) has started the basis for recent printwork and book design projects. A now part-time MA student studying Art, Design & the Book currently deciphering what Action Research means to artists and in terms of my […]
This blog will be a record of learning a new language, Spanish, as a beginner. It is an attempt to understand the significance to my art practice of my background as a linguist through the activity of learning. It will […]
A blog to show my works in progress, ideas as they formulate and just some of the things I get up to.
Recognising the value of artists sharing knowledge and information with their peers, I will record conversations with artists and arts organisations. Putting the show out as a podcast. It will create a valuable new archive.
I am an East Coast Canadian currently on sabbatical in Wales completing my MFA at Cardiff School of Art and Design. ‘Gone Postal’ documents my exploration of on-line and material archives and the interplay between virtual and material worlds. A […]
This blog will document my 3 month Asialink Residency, based in China. I hope to further research the impact of globalization on emotional expression in china.
This blog follows and explores my Artist Residency at the Bond in Birmingham. THe residency is for a year and I will be creating a body of work, living and working on site and exhibitng along the way.
Sometimes it’s a desert in there. Spending a lot of time alone in the workshop……… ‘The Cooler King’ doing more time in solitary with no one to affirm or deny the validity of thoughts or actions.
Having recently graduated I am now starting out as a professional artist. I have started this blog to chart my journey as an emerging artist or you could say as a little fish flying into the wind.
Paul Evans discusses ongoing work for the Origin011 project. This blog will act as an online sketchbook and reflective journal for work in progress on a series of ambitious drawing projects that he will be undertaking during 2012.
Interviews with artists Attentive dialogue is real magic. Listen. Speak. Voila.
A public billboard commissioned by Trinity ∴ viewable 24/7. As part of Add To My Library pays tribute to John Latham’s book relief sculpture which penetrates the window fronting Flat Time House. Trinity ∴ 310 Creek Road, Greenwich, London SE10 […]
In 1986, the year before I was born, Hannes Leopoldseder wrote Ten Indications of an Emerging Computer Culture; in this text she highlighted ways in which computers were about to change society. They now have. My work tends to be […]
This blog will look at my life after graduation and I will be telling you all about what i been up to.
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