Page 1103 – a-n The Artists Information Company

  This Saturday marks my late Nana’s birthday. Born on July 26th 1908, Nana reached the grand age of 102 years, before her death in September 2010. I always find anniversaries a powerful time – a time for reflecting and […]

  Continuing on my current theme (Dwelling Fusion) of reflecting on the day-to-day reality of living in two places, almost at opposite ends of the country, I have spent some time identifying and documenting areas of commonality. This work comprises […]

Throughout the 2014 degree show period a-n News covered a portion of degree shows. In some cases these were shorter versions of Twitter visits made to each show, some were first hand responses, others more investigative in to what constitutes […]

Sunday, noon. Catalan noon, which is certainly not 12, nor any time soon after. In fact I have time to make two successive trips back to the masia (one for insect repellant, two for water) before the priest arrives and […]

Update… Just seen a dog wearing a Tartan Snood.

I am a photographic artist, interested between the relationship between photography and archaeology. For this a-n New Collaborative Bursary project I am collaborating with Keir Stickland, an archaeologist working in the Department of Archaeology at Orkney College. Keir’s primary research […]

Even when I do something that I initially believe to be unconnected to the rest of my work, it turns out not to be after all. I find this hugely comforting but also exciting, liberating… because it means I can […]

For our third collaborative weekend we’d originally thought to go back to revisit places and objects we’d seen before to look at them again after a break and a period of reflection. The Ard near Port Ellen was a place […]

I was selected to take part in a five day Ideas Lab from 28 January to 1 February 2013, organised by METAL and hosted by Pacitti Company in Ipswich. This was a fantastic opportunity to learn about film editing, surround […]

During the winter 2012/13 my garage was lined and insulated to create a project space where I could make large work or set up situations for films. Although small the space had great potential for experiment where I could paint […]

We wanted any collaboration to emerge naturally through a growing understanding of each’s work and mutual trust. Over the next year we visited each other, saw our respective performances and exhibitions and discussed potential ideas for joint work. These quickly […]

I am procrastinating a little by writing this blog, but I do it while I drink my tea. I cannot drink tea and embroider… I get too engrossed in the task and forget it, then come to, a couple of […]