OK, so 2012. What happened? Why did I start writing about my residency in Cataluna, and not post any further updates? No good reason. Blogs were drafted as I continued to research the monstrous feminine, and the […]
Responding to Sam White’s postcard which was an oblong with ‘onand’ machine stitched onto it in red thread (top) and black underneath. Her words on the back of the card are ‘ whether we like it or not – Life […]
A fabulously nonsensical launch of The Owl and the Pussy-cat and the Turtles of Fun, a new book containing Matt Black’s Prequel and Sequel to Edward Lear’s famous poem, illustrated by Pip Hall, the evening accompanied by Jonny Fill’s Nonsense Orchestra.
Day 1 of LOAF14 is over, and it went well I think… The art exhibition is looking good, I’ll post a few pics tomorrow maybe, if I get time to take some. The quilts look bright and beautiful… true craftswoman-ship […]
I have several threads to what I do. My practice is currently concerned with: ~ a postcard exchange project in which I’m responding to others work in postcard form and they are responding to mine. ~Intuitive painting, often quickly done […]
Two weeks of talks, research and focus. I’m shattered. I wasn’t expecting a huge outcome as I concentrated on animation and you can’t do that in a hurry. Also I was using PremierPro which was totally new to me. However, […]
Photograph by Ken Taylor I’m hoping there’s a picture here for you to see, as I’m trying to get the hang of adding pictures in this new a-n website…..After a meeting with my collaborators and separate discussions of my singing […]
If one year equals 7 dog years; Me and Cosmo embarked on our middle age together, and I looked to him for inspiration for a new body of work!
Last night was the opening of our Colonize Revisited exhibition at Arena Gallery and I’ve been so tired today, all I’ve done is flitted from one thing to another, unable to focus for more than ten minutes at a time. […]
London can be an expensive place to be an artist, but what are the advantages of basing your practice outside the capital, and how are those that choose to stay in London making it work? Pippa Koszerek reports from Standpoint Gallery’s recent MAP Symposium.
Artist In Residence at Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas, Cataluña 2012 2014 ‘tomorrow I move back to the magic mountain’. Post. I’d previous remained incognito about my imminent return to Paradise. Pinning the words to my Facebook […]
A new publication by US-based choreographer Andrew Simonet is a call to action for artists to harness their creative know-how to create an economically sustainable lifestyle.
My first day in Anglesey at Halen Mon has passed by in a blaze of glorious sunshine. As an artist trying to utilise the outcomes of science within my work, my primary aim for today was to discover just how […]
I’m still trying to work out how to manage this new blog set-up and have just managed to lose loads of things that I wrote after trying to add a picture…alas i’ll have to start all over again. The video […]
“On sustainability: it is a kind of discourse that implies a different kind of social relation. What I mean is, instead of doing philosophy, one is doing ecophilosophy, not in the environmentalist sense, but as the philosophy of a possible […]
Currently watching: The Mafia Is Trashing Italy… Literally (2009) VICE Film footage shows the mountains of garbage bales with commentary on the scale of the issue in Naples and the surrounding Campania region. Interviews with farmers from the affected regions […]
‘Welcome! Drawing your attention: to spatial metaphor and mythopoeic laboratory’ I am here to reflectively ponder about my current research project where I use myth and permaculture to explore the many facets of Sustainability and the nature/culture continuum. I will […]
Meeting 2 The moment Dr Carolyn Rando saw the rabbit still had a face, she gave a gasp of delight. It’s a Sunday and we are spending a few hours in the suburban back garden of Charlotte’s parents’ house. Charlotte […]
