Yesterday we installed Gris Gris at the Newbridge Project, and it think it went rather well. So if you’re around Newcastle this afternoon, why not pop into the Newbridge Project Annex for tea, or a glass of fizz – both […]
Who I am and what I do.
I finished the first painting in the series that I am doing at the moment. I am really happy with the outcome it was a little different than a planned as I had planned to paint the middle on the […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In my last post, I wrote of the state of flow… The ultimate creative state. In this post I write of the least creative, the most frustrating and yet the other end of the duties […]
Urgent whispers ricochet in skull&ribcage, hissed missiles: Why do you bring me back, over and over again? One moment it’s my father speaking, who I drag backwards&forwards in time, without a by-his-leave; the next it is I, compelled to return […]
Today I went to see the Warhol show at Tate Liverpool. I have watched a documentary on Warhol before so the show was pretty much what I had expected but it was enjoyable to see so many of his works […]
On tuesday we had the external examiners in to talk to us and I had the fortune not to be one to be selected for interview, but apparently it means there is more than a chance at the end of […]
Today, after a long break we have our first day back at university. I started the morning by going to visit the Artist and the City exhibition at the Potteries Museum to see my painting in situ. I do feel […]
Joseph Mallord William Turner: Fishermen at Sea: (1796) Media: Oil on Canvas: Support: 914 x 1222mm: Frame: 1120 x 1425mm x 105mm Location: Tate Collection Image available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime I like the dark brooding sky in this painting. It is […]
while in belper parks on tuesday, our regional catalyst from the eden project opened my thinking to placemaking. as we stood and looked at one edge of the area we’ll use for the art walk i could see her excitement. […]
My large cross-stitch pattern is now finished, and I’m looking forward to starting to stitch it. You may remember that it’s inspired by Byzantine Church domes, and so the layout of the design corresponds with a traditional dome, but with […]
It was less than a year ago , maybe six months ago, I can’t remember, fairly recently though…… ish. I noticed a lot of plant machinery and trucks etc working in a field between the A2990 and Molehill Road, with […]
Our busy Events section features events and exhibitions posted by a-n members. In the second of a new weekly series, we pick five highlights from the next seven days.
Excuse the hop over to the UK.. I’ll take you back to Senegal next blog post, but I would very much love to invite you to my exhibition opening at the Newbridge Project Saturday 24th Jan. Senegalese teas will be […]
It’s hard to concentrate in the cold! But new work coming on apace. This is a time of planning and thinking. I love being in the studio but sometimes feel that I do too much playing and not enough focussing […]
So, the need to extend one of the basket objects means that I have had to come up with a way to attach a ‘filler’ segment without any surface area to glue it. So far so good. Then try to […]
Day off. By 8am this morning, I’d gone through my diary and tried to set up a date for a meeting. Erm… I can do a week on Monday, other than that it’s the following week on a Wednesday… or […]
The winner of the sixth Artes Mundi prize is the American artist Theaster Gates.
Since my opening I have been travelling in China and I’m still on the go, but I wanted to get photographs of the work in the exhibition and some from the opening on the blog as soon as possible, so […]
I have decided after a long time to finally take the plunge and buy a sewing machine. I love making my own t shirts so i really needed one to explore more ideas, i cant wait to use it :) […]
Philosophical thoughts on society.
In the end, at the beginning of the week, I cut my roll of Chinese paper with a fine hacksaw blade; it worked, although the remainder of the roll is a little squashed by the pressure I had to apply […]
Initiate your own peer sessions. In 2014 I joined contemporary art group ARTEL, we exhibit annually on a theme. Last year: ‘Raw – reflections on the aftermath of war’. This June – ‘Possessed’. Our first peer critique will be 29 […]
