#questions In process. Exploring ways of untesting is for me about blurring the line between the straightforward and counterproductive. There are always questions we find odd, unrelated or predicative of a standard reply. I started taking questions out of their […]
Post 5 Writing up the visits for the blog and for the use of other artists. I have now had 3 of my 1.1’s which I have happened in quite quick succession, therefore, the studio has been in a very […]
Post 6 Francesca Gavin – 21/May/2014 Francesca understood the work and the motivation behind it straight away – making interesting links and picking out associations. In addition, she commented how I am almost drawing with paint, which I completely recognise. […]
Things are appearing in my workspace now. The exhibition is starting to have a physical presence rather than just existing in my head. Plinths have been built, although being me, they weren’t a simple ‘four sides and a top’ plinth. […]
Exciting times are here again! Early on Monday morning I’ll be jumping on the train to get to the NAEA – unfortunately by then the AN website will be closed for update, so I have set up a mirror blog […]
On Saturday the 14th of June I will be embarking on a journey with 12 nervous BA Fine Art students who have acceted the challenge to go into the Wilds of Yellowstone Park to meet and work with fellow Fine […]
Western Wilds – an international book arts collaboration by Wirral Metropolitan College BA Fine Art and Brigham Young University, Utah. Twelve students and staff from Wirral Met are embarking on an adventure to make artists’ books responding to the wilderness […]
The painter George Shaw has been announced as the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist and will work in the gallery over a period of two years.
I’m back to painting in my studio again. Painting is really difficult. I am of the mindset recently that I need to make work that is really good and if it’s not really good it’s not worth making. If the […]
Today I’m fully in the present. The responses to my last post have stretched my safety-net to far corners and I want to share with you how moved I am by the generosity, compassion and creative spirit I have encountered. […]
Yesterday’s conversation with a neighbour who’s about to go back to work after maternity leave has got me thinking again about my own situation career-wise and what a different experience I’ve had since becoming an artist. After many years of […]
Got side tracked by the stories people told me when sitting down at my table. I have come to the conclusion that the actual project of building this house is importand in the dialogues and I have to focus more […]
I am packing up at school. The place is almost completely disserted and it feels as though term has truly ended, though I went to a rather interesting, if sparsely attended, lecture this morning. The workshops are silent and even […]
Turf Projects PUTT PUTT #2 Commission I was delighted to be asked to make a playful new work for this years PUTT PUTT #2 crazy golf course in Croydon. For those who don’t know about the wonderful work of Turf […]
My drawing is going well. I am using different black inks on primed paper. Ink is a very direct medium and I enjoy the challenge. As I have only 2 weeks to make the drawing I have to be decisive […]
I get my results today. Trying to calm my nerves, I’m finishing off work for the Degree Show. Its not working- I’m still anxious but I have printed a group of photographs for the show. My plan for installing the […]
