Simulacra And Simulations
My work conflates the real and the imaginary within a multidisciplinary practice, including digital installation, comics, animation and sound art. #payingartists
My work conflates the real and the imaginary within a multidisciplinary practice, including digital installation, comics, animation and sound art. #payingartists
This residency offers me a free studio space at the newly renovated Harrington Mill Studios. The one year residency sponsored by Erewash borough council in conjunction with the University of Derby and Harrington Mill Studios is a unique opportunity for […]
A Grants for the Arts funded period of research and development. Time, space and funding to unravel years of experience raising a large family, to lay out the dissected pieces of my past working practice, take up the bare bones […]
a mythological character, an insect and a folk tale protagonist meet in a live art performance set in a city and in a countryside location.
I am on a journey investigating the sub conscious mind and a primordial relationship with trees. This project does link in with Heritage and Psychology. I am particularly interested in developing healthy pathway's for people that do not feel competent […]
The journey starts at Loweswater and meanders back in a generous flourish across the Lake District to Gurnal Dubs near Kendal, linking twelve tarns and lakes . The stretches of water swum in between might be thought of as the […]
I have been the Artist in Residence at the John Henry Newman School in Stevenage since September 2008. I have been spending the time developing my own practice as well as running art sessions for the staff and pupils at […]
The road from amateur artist to professional artist is a somewhat precarious and intimidating process. In this blog I aim to discuss my experiences of the journey and invite other artists on the same road to share their experience of […]
L.I.F.T. stands for Leeds intimate film theatre, the name that describes our latest interactive performance installation.It was an idea that came to my colleague when we were looking for a venue in Leeds for an installation for Leeds light Night. […]
I have recently been working with Open City on a collaborative phase of research and development. Open City is a project involving Andrew Brown, Katie Doubleday and Simone Kenyon which aims to explore how we live in and experience the […]
I am currently frustrated with my "art practice" so I have decided to address my circumstances by changing my surroundings. For the next five weeks, i will be an artist based in "the West Bank". These are my adventures……
What do Middleport, St. Radigans and probably Kemsley have in common? 1) They all got old range rovers resting on piles of bricks, fridges or broken plastic goal posts in the front gardens. 2) I am working or going to […]
Fluid dynamics removes the connection between artist and art, surrendering creative control to machinery, blurring boundaries between art and science. This project uses machinery to apply the scientific principles of fluid dynamics into an artistic context, where science and art […]
As artist animateur at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, 3 October – 16 November, I am considering my own and other people's responses to Thomas Hirschhorn's work 'The Incommensurable Banner'. The exhibition is part of Brighton Photo Biennial 2008. I welcome your […]
Pigeon Hole Art Interventions In Leominster I provide a handy perch- a small shopfront to show new ideas, interventions and reactions. The first show is Pigeon, Naughty or Nice. It's my own work to pilot the space and see how […]
An artist practising again and finding it tough, hard and bloody exciting
Projects and Preoccupations is an updated title. I started this blog as an experiment: an alternative to a studio, a gathering space for ideas and images to help with consistency and fluidity in my work. Three years on..I’m still finding […]
The brief from the Academy is challenging. I will be conducting research in the Utopian community of Christiania in Copenhagen as a 3 week artist residency. I leave in two days.
Musings on Art education from the inside
This is a space for me to share the progress of Open To Arts A creative arts, busines and community social business. I want to have the chance to gain feedback on the onoging process of running an organisation that […]
Coming up to a year since I graduated from Nottingham Trent Uni, I am exploring where I am now and how things are progressing.
This is a blog about the 2 month residency that I am taking up in Berlin. At Oxford Brookes University, one of the “creative stratagies” that we give to our first year students is to go for a walk. My […]
In June 2008 Gordon Flemons and I started a second collaboration, set in Basildon with open ended timescale, focus of interest, media and outcomes. Would it work? In autumn 2007 we formed our first collaboration "Caught in the Act" which […]
An account of the process of conceiving, developing and producing a 2 week interactive textile installation commission for Origin: The London Crafts Fair, Somerset House, London this coming October.
"The trials and tribulations of working with museums in Leicester". Or perhaps "the exhibition that never was, changed three times and then was again in a lasting but intangible sort of way"…read it, you'll understand…