Interest in my Thread of Life project is certainly gathering pace, although I still have a long way to go with my crowd funding campaign. This week I’ve been invited to BBC Radio Sheffield to talk about the project, and […]
The winner of the Visitors’ Choice award of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize is Juliette Losq for her painting Vinculum.
Reviewing the post I made after finishing my degree I’m struck by the fact that I’m still finding it hard to take my own advice to slow down. Life is so short; I have too much to achieve and worry […]
I need to stop enjoying myself so much. It has been a bit like being on holiday so far and that needs to stop at some point. Too much indulgence! I visited the Xiamen Botanical Gardens with Betsy. The best […]
Yesterday was the second planning session with Dan. I think we are almost ready now, in January, to hit the ground running, shoot the flag up the pole and see how it shimmies, type of thing…. (I need a bit […]
Asked a a man painting railings directions, whilst he was explaining I notice the label was sticking out of his high vis top. Befoere leaving him I said ‘hang on mate, let me tuck your label in, cant have you […]
I spent the weekend in london visiting galleries. I viewed exhibitions by Gerhart Richter and Ida Ekblad amoungst others. I particularly liked the work of Eddie Martinez which was displayed at the Timothy Taylor Gallery. An artist from New York […]
Evolving from my ‘St Giles’ video shown in St Petersburg recently has been a new series of paintings and prints. In a new series of paintings I have taken the octagonal motif of the video (distorted lights on a […]
As part of ongoing protests against privatisation proposals at the National Gallery, staff have organised their own exhibition of work inspired by the gallery’s collection.
Early sketches for the People’s Bank of Govanhill note
our go and see bursary experience has become a three part experience. today i am feeling that our third part is nearing completition. since part 2 in september i’ve been working to create the review of the whole experience. it’s […]
Taking on board some of the comments and my own ideas after the last group crit a clear direction of investigation came about last week. Screen-printing lends itself to quick investigation (especially if you are not fastidious about quality) and […]
In response to falling levels of participation in craft-related subjects at GCSE and in higher education, the Crafts Council has launched Our Future is in the Making: An Education Manifesto for Craft and Making, as a means to safeguarding craft education in the UK.
Last week our year group had peer group crits. We each in turn talked about our progress – one month in to the module – Resolution of Pracrice. We answered questions from our tutor and fellow students and in this […]
Here is some work I created in response to a photo of the landscape I took back home. I have been feeling extremely homesick in Ipswich, missing the beautiful mountain landscape. I have been trying to create my own landscape. […]
Here are some works from the previous academic year, I was much more focused on pattern making. I went through a bad creative block last year and became obsessed with pattern making using various recycled materials. My work was influenced […]
Time to prepare for the real world! This blog will highlight the work I am creating for my final year in preparation for the Degree Show. I will also feature some influential artists and works from previous years which I feel are relevant to my current practice
I have a theme running throughout my work, Clouds, moons and sunsets, why do I paint these? At first I didn’t know, because they are pretty, I would say. But now looking in to it further, in more depth I […]
Residence with WAAW, Saint Louis, Senegal, supported by Arts Council England I’ve been taking a lot of time recently to dig deeper into the history of witchcraft accusations. By looking at a wider span of time outside the great european […]
We’re standing halfway up a stairway that weaves it’s way sharply and narrowly from the leafy street through the modernist backside of buildings; we’re under a tall tree canopy, the rear of 19th C town houses stream away to our […]
Following the announcement that parts of the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation are to remain on display until the end of the month before setting off on a tour of the UK, artist Paul Cummins is to plant the final poppy at the Tower of London on 11 November 2014 to mark Armistice Day.
