following a winter spent in a wheelchair after a back operation, I decided to change direction in my art practice. I needed to redefine my spacial awareness ; I have come to relate the restrictions of my condition to the […]
I am currently working on a project titled ‘Imperial Leather’.
What an opportunity; I am to visit Florence and Siena for a day each in early June. Is it possible to find an artist or artists with whom I could collaborate on a public interaction or intervention in 2 beautiful […]
I thought I’d do a blog just here from home. Just working away with what I do on a day to day basis. I know I will begin to shape it for audience, how that will be shaped I’m still […]
To co-incide with ArtsFest held in Birminham this September – a group exhibition featuring Birmingham and Bordeaux artists will exhibit at the Works Gallery. The show hopes to foster greater collaboration between the artists working in these cities. The featured […]
“Water is the eye of the landscape” Water holds a lens up to the world through which one can experience it differently. It is an element easily entered but within which one cannot survive without adaptation. How we adapt and […]
I am planning a solo exhibition about subjectivity in our choice of art. The first part is about individual choice, when members of the public will be invited to make their personal selection from a retrospective of 30+ years of […]
What happens when you paint every day?
So I know it isn't New Year, but my new venture started with the New year. I decided to make a commitment to myself and to the 'What I should be doing' part of my life. I would like to […]
This project has enabled me to use drawing to explore the process of development: the growth of interrelations and connections between shapes, objects and people within their environment.
The Degree Show countdown has begun….., the kids have achieved more fine art upon the walls than I have managed to apply to canvas, my partner has lost half a stone and the twins are nearly feral, but hey – […]
The Art & Anatomy “Student Selected Component” in Medical Humanities at Keele University Medical School was inaugurated in 2010. We offered four academic modules plus life classes for 3rd year students, and ran the course for two years. The modules […]
The BUILD residency has provided me with the opportunity to research and produce work in an industrial location with specialist departments in manufacturing and the built environment. This blog will chart my experiences and the subsequent changes in attitute to […]
This summer term I will be working in collaboration with artist Faga Cooper Keeble on a project that questions the integrity of emotions within an educational setting. We hope to enlist a group of pupils from a North London boys […]
How creative can an artist be when working with a traditional museum? I have been artist in residence at the Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley since March 2008, and we are now on the eve of opening a new exhibition, […]
Origination emerged from our interest in genealogy, and family stories of migration. In 2009-10, we embarked on a journey by ship, retracing the route of our ancestors from Eastern Europe to South Africa. In 2011, we were in residence in […]
I have been selected to work on 3 residencies over the next year in the UK, Poland and Finland. You've heard about Capitals of Culture? Cornwall wants to be a European Region of Culture. My first residency in Poland starts […]
The process of making work as part of the ‘The Shape of Things’ programme, including The Gifts, a textile installation for Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, and new work for a group show at Flow Gallery, London.
The children have both started at school, giving me hours of creative time a week; the computer business I started, to make ends meet, now makes a reliable profit; many of my friends have forgotten that I was ever an […]
I am in the process of moving out of "The Shed", and moving into a proper rent paying (space) studio of my own. This is scary stuff, leaving behind my free shed, and forcing myself at a point of economic […]
This project aims to explore who we are, where we’ve come from and where we’re going – as individuals and as communities. Specifically looking at how work patterns have changed from the 20th to the 21st century. http://www.ourworkinglives.org
A blog about the Revolutionary Arts Group's network of artists and arts organisations using empty shops to create temporary pop-up shops, community spaces and galleries
After finally stepping on to the first rung of the 'artists ladder' by graduating, exhibiting work, having poetry published, and teaching. I was buzzing. Then unforseen events (including a RTA and having a baby) knocked me right off path. Now, […]
I’m exposing myself to find community in the journey… I feel like a slow starter, stumbling around in the dark working out what it means to call myself an artist &always questioning whether I ‘qualify’.
Earlier this year I was contacted by a research student at the University of East London and asked whether I would be willing to take part in current research into creativity, creative individuals and creative experiences…
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