I stretched the tracing paper, and it was surprisingly absorbent, and VERY fragile. Then, when it had dried, I tried painting on it again. The same image, which is interesting to me, but might be getting a bit dull for […]
A new YouTube video from the street artist Banksy shows a series of new works in bomb-damaged Gaza.
Below is an idea I decided on as a take on the work Table, 1969 by Allen Jones. Initially I had intended to start by setting the image against a very plain background in order to centralise the focus on the ‘table’. […]
Does anyone know anything about this on line gallery/agent. I am thinking about signing up, but would like some views on it before I do. It all seems a bit easy, but when you read the small print of the […]
I’ve been invited to participate in a 10 day conference and research residency at Pompidou Centre, Paris from 1st – 10th July 2014. The topic we will will be discussing is the exhibition ‘Magiciens de la Terre’, which is now […]
A short blog this week after last week’s tirade. The emperor has found his clothes at the George Chakravarthi exhibition presently being held at the Vane/Globe gallery, in Newcastle. After all I said last week this show makes me eat […]
A new report commissioned by the Arts and Humanities Research Council argues that the UK’s cultural sector operates like an organism rather than a mechanism – it is an ecology of culture. John Holden, the report’s author and Visiting Professor at City University, London, explains.
Experimenting Vase Print Outcome and Artist Research As part of my process for making Chinese style stencils to use for printing, I decided to do a little research in artists that have done similar methods and styles in printing or […]
I post the link to this event on the 1st March 2015 here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1527993604147783 My creative response in the form of an Art Ofrenda for those killed and those grieving can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7TBAIb68mY&feature=youtu.be
this piece is all about the capitalist economy and how it drives on money and growth. It is the start of a series about the west and its ignorance to the isis threat
It should be relatively simple to set up some workshops, but there’s been unnecessary and frustrating delays. Mainly Out Of Office replies to emails – like revenge because I set my emails to OOO during half term, and the art […]
For the first time, the V&A, in partnership with RIBA and supported by RBKC, staged a community-based artist residency. My studio at 7 Shalfleet Drive was attached to the More West housing development. This is the first housing development in […]
The west of England sculpture trail has announced it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2016 with a series of new temporary and permanent commissions.
I took the last piece of art work down from my studio wall on Thursday. Moving out has been a major undertaking – much greater than I’d imagined – and there have been many times over the past few weeks […]
As my children’s half term was last week and I took the time out of college to be with them I compensated by going into college the week before in reading week! The place was very quiet but it was […]
I was thinking about saints and goddesses, and came across an article on living goddesses “The Kumari”meaning virgin or unmarried girl) she is dressed in the finery of the goddess. She may leave her residence- the kumari Chen- only to […]
This work was influenced by a reading I attended at University based on Artist Andrew Bick and his work ‘Memory Club’. I used a ‘sandblaster’ to deprive the viewer of areas of paint and confuse the order by which layers […]
