i’ve been holed up with a cold over the weekend and today am really pleased to be feeling better. i’ve celebrated this by getting my arduino out and playing some more. today it’s been with a 7 segment led display. […]
Having re-primed the canvas I have an idea that I will paint a female figure that is “wrapped” in clothing Re Think I researched on the web, in magazines and books and have come up with several images that I […]
Over the summer break I decided to make and paint a large canvas (1.8×1.2m). I researched for my dissertation the work of past old masters and in particular a painting by Velasquez. Diego Velasquez, Rokeby Venus, c. 1647–51. 122cm x […]
Investigating the shape of the body and its surroundings using only black and white oil paint was a real challenge. I found the extra life painting classes at uni a great opportunity of improving my painting technique. Kathryn Raffell, 2015, […]
My thoughts in this week’s blog go to all those who were killed in Paris last week in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices. I pause for a moment. I would describe myself as a ‘pacifist anarchist’; I am […]
Skull-pain so severe I’m ready to disembody. The world shrunk to an airless site of sensation, an outcrop at the side of my head. The labour of breathing carries on. A relief when pain moves after a day or […]
I’m finding myself waning a bit in enthusiasm for carving the same shape and pattern over and over again with the basket heads depicted in these new works. I probably shouldn’t say that! But it is pretty tedious work, 11 […]
Nine months ago I made the initial version of To accrete n.05 movie stills which transfers a collaged physical artwork into a series of still shots. It fractures viewing into small slices that gradually reveal a whole, an exercise both […]
Project to stop lecturers at Grantham College art department from having to wear a dress code November 2014 – Present These are some of the photographs that i took during the photo shoot. In this shoot i had 6 models, […]
The work went up, guests arrived, we popped some corks and I was carried away in a sea of people – all asking questions, all showing interest in the story of my father’s exile. One even held my hand while […]
As we all try and combat the January blues (again), I find it a useful pick-me-up to reflect on the previous year hoping that it will serve up some interesting revelation. 2014 was a productive year for me; I entered […]
I had a much needed break over Christmas and New Year – no studio work and very little other work – which gave me time to recuperate from a kidney infection which I’m sure I got from being run down […]
Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have been nominated in the Best Documentary category of the 2015 BAFTA Awards for their film highlighting a fictitious day-in-the-life of musician Nick Cave.
The Earl of Clancarty is to lead a debate in the House of Lords on government support for artists.
Showing work at Metal provides an opportunity to try out different ways of installing the films Darren and I have been working on. I’m editing Tea Break I & II on a split screen with the idea of projecting them […]
Two more canvases made…
The sacrifice of food to Mame Coumba Bang has held my interest, appealing to my fascination with turning every day items into tools for ritual and transformation. I’m certain I want to use these sacrificial food stuffs in my own […]
This week’s selection includes the UK premiere in Manchester of a major piece of Chinese animation, an artist-led exploration of wireless technology in Croydon, and contemporary ceramic art in Gateshead.
The Museum of Object Research is delighted to open the New Year with a gleaming post from artist Neil Armstrong, which demonstrates the beauty, depth and power of the object as both symbolic talisman, and vessel of complex histories in […]
We do this really useful (and seemingly simple) thing at college – our tutor asks us to sum up what our practice comprises of in one word – that’s actually really tricky! We were having a group crit last week […]
Stained Glass and Fused Glass Art Studio
A small illustrated book written by myself while on an educational trip to Cumbria. I was really happy to be given this Angry orange as my object to document while we were in Cumbria. I decided to write a story […]
