This book forms part of my long-term project ‘Waiting and Drawing’. This began life when I would spend many frustrating minutes waiting for the computer to load. Now that I have fancy Windows 7, I no […]
Walking through this engaging retrospective at the Tate is like seeing someone’s purpose come into focus and then slowly dissipate again. A slightly overloaded first room shows Malevich trying out various styles of his time including Impressionism, Fauvism and Symbolism. […]
Right then. Yesterday I watched some of my Songwriting Circle buddies perform as part of the mac birmingham (their lower case trendy insistence, not mine) open day for the new term’s courses. I could have joined in, but chose not […]
Port of London Authority said ‘no can do’ to my proposal of placing my work in the creek, and to be honest, discussing with the DeptfordX peeps, keeping it simple and showing only the large concrete tower turned bug hotel […]
so I’ll see you in 26 hours. 3am. no exchange of number, and did I catch his name correctly? Was I really thinking about climbing Magic Mountain, in the dead of night, with a someone I just met? The […]
The deadline was extended because there was a “line-side fire” affecting trains heading to London Bridge from Sunny South London on Friday afternoon which meant delays & cancellations. He was all swaddled in bubble wrap and ready to go, too. […]
This week’s must-see shows range from White Albums in Liverpool to a celebration of the tiny things in life in Southampton.
This year’s Arts Development UK survey of local authority arts investment shows the number of authorities with no direct arts service continues to grow, while budgets are once again on the decrease in real terms.
I’m working with collage and finding it really versatile and refreshing after a few months of intently painting. Seeing Matisse’s Cut Outs at Tate Modern motivated me to work with collage. The initial simplicity of his schemes reveals itself to […]
I’ve been invited to participate in the ‘World Congress on Solid Waste Management’ in São Paulo, Brazil, from 8th – 11th September 2014. What follows is a response.
Sunday. I haven’t had a Sunday off for ages, so this is quite a novelty. We have to work 15 weekend days in 12 weeks at the gallery, so I usually do the Sunday rather than Saturday, as it’s less […]
in preparing for the bursaried visit thanks to a go and see bursary from a n, i find myself again being reflective of the journey to this point. in thinking about what to write down, i find myself considering writing […]
Strange day today at ArtSpace… not a single person walked through the door… the town was very quiet, and not many even walked past, let alone looked through the window. I usually get in about an hour before opening, to […]
I’m departing in a few hours for the final leg of my Danish-British ceramics project. Since the Fantastic Tales show at The Ceramic House and the exhibition at the Regency Townhouse ended in May, I’ve spent the summer working on […]
In this blog entry I wish to give informative details about my Arts Council funded project and to clarify the direction my research and thinking is going in so far. As a part of my research project I am doing […]
So I have officially started work on my residency work at Cuckoo Farm Studios. Ill be arriving at the studios next Friday, just in time for there open studios that weekend. Ill be arriving with a piece of work along […]
