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In October I’ll be starting a yearlong residency with Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. It’s going to be a cross-stitch based project in two parts: I’ll be creating a large scale cross-stitch myself based on the mythical Ancient Greek Moirai […]

I feel like I’m talking and no one is listening. I send thoughts, words and work out into the world to little response or reaction. Do I have anything to say others wish to hear? Perhaps this is an inevitable […]

Today we made it across to Swona in a cute yellow boat called Sheila C, captained by two lovely chaps both called Magnus! The crossing from Burray Pier to The Haven at Swona took about 30 minutes and was really […]

After a long break spent working and being distracted, one of the big projects I have been involved in was the conception and realisation of an exhibition exploring drawing in contemporary art practice. I’ve written a bit of a review: […]

Weird day. Probably shouldn’t post on a weird day, in case I say something I later regret. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. I have angst. I am in the midst of a crisis of confidence. I […]

Talking to Paula, the archivist at the baths about how she catalogs items and how I might mirror her process to create an archive of the future Looking at objects from Paula’s archive. What will the equivalent objects be in […]

A lesson in writing in Arabic There are so many languages spoken here I’m hoping to have text translated into at least three languages: Urdu, Slovakian and Romanian The men at the local mosque kindly gave me a crash course […]

Waking up to Glasgow sunshine, I was transported by my generous hosts to the world of The Black Wood of Rannoch – away from the city, from books, research questions; away from mentalism to direct experience of this forest field-site […]

This is the initial piece in what hopefully is destined to be a new series of work rather than simply an idea that peters out and dies. I’m aware I’m possibly working on too many things at the same time. […]

When investigating the social costs of the fashion industry the first thing that tends to spring to mind is the unfair deal workers are often  getting – overworked, underpaid, exploited –  whether in the garment sewing factories of today’s Bangladesh […]

Artists need a balance, well several balances – no matter which aspect of creative life I think about there is always a point at which a balance has to be found.  Between reading/researching and actual making;  paid work and studio […]

Yesterday the sea was still too rough for us to make a crossing to Swona. Both mornings we had psyched ourselves up – packed the kit, food supplies, dressed in warm layers of clothing and head-to-toe waterproofs – and arrived […]

More amazing people and tasty food today. Making soup and canelloni with Govanhill Grub and a community barbecue on a tiny patch of ground recently transformed as a veg garden And a caramel wafer