In the future I will continue to work on large canvases, but maybe not quite as large as 2m x 2m as this size is very inconvenient to transport. I will continue to work from the unconcious and attempt to […]
Is God a Girl? This is a article I found Interesting and thought provoking. Bettany Hughes is a expert in acient History and questions whether god is a girl? Bettany Hughes challenges the belief that women cannot be priests, she […]
The Stuff of Life. (Part 2.) The previous post has for some reason truncated my list of “stuff.” So I have added the missing bit at the bottom. Also, Elena Thomas’s response to previous post, got me thinking and needed […]
Today was the first day of my short residency at the Angears Centre, Lakeside. I am making a 2m drawing in ink on primed paper. I’ve made bigger drawings and I’ve primed paper on a large scale but never this […]
Two weeks in, three weeks until install. Today I’ve spent another day working with dancer Sophie Tickle. We’ve been playing with hand gestures that convey a sense of displacement and with gestures that create a refuge. Thinking about how this […]
Representation and culture, part whatever (this one’s gonna run and run, I fear … ) and so the culture wars begin … actually they have been pretty quiet wars, but they are on nevertheless. I started writing about the way […]
The w20 Studio website is an active sketchbook and a place for both artists to gather and reflect on the work in progress.
This blog post is dedicated to my beloved boyfriend/partner (depends if I want you to think I’m older than I am, or younger) who let me take his car to Northumberland because mine broke at the weekend. It turns out […]
After a year of chopping and changing on the Spike Island sublet merry-go-round, I finally have a permanent space. I am very pleased to be in studio 26, sharing with artists Rich Broomhall and Helen Grant. Every studio and every […]
Well, here we are – nearing the end. I’ve just spent what has to be one of the better/more rewarding weeks at university, setting up my degree show in and around the Black Space. It’s been a joy to see […]
I just haven’t got the time to write here too… This crazy, I think the course needs to be re-scheduled as it doesn’t work for full timers. It’s all fun, that’s all I can say. Going to go to bed […]
The Story The story is incredible! I can only give a small flavour of it here: “The Rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia, the mountain ash, the traveller’s tree; a laughing pioneer, it grows where other trees dare not go – further […]
Falling This painting started with a photograph of a building in the middle of being renovated, a very large tarpaulin covering it. I wonder where on earth one could find such a huge swathe of material? It covers like a […]
The Stuff of Life A conversation on here with Marion Michell, (see comments under previous post) about a shared love for researching the origin of words provoked, as it so often does with her comments, a flood of connections in […]
Invitation to talk.. Such stillness today, that I have to crack the air to make something happen.. I prepare and edit streams of images to project on a stone wall. An invitation to give a talk here, to a new […]
And it’s UP! I finally finished the hanging on Friday.
Images of the final pieces selected for my end of year show. YAY!
For quite some time now, I have resorted to using a sketchbook rather than my blog in order to keep track of my thought process as I have progressed. As much as I have found the blog an interesting and […]
Wednesday 7th May. Today, was the first time that I have been able to test my sculpture in a clinical white space. I am still not 100% sure as to wether or not it is the correct context to display […]
My work is finally up. Looking around the studio there is so much fantastic work- The Degree Show on Thursay night should be good!
Wednesday 14th May As the degree show soon approaches, I find myself constanly thinking about my project, and the journey it has gone through over the last year. Looking back, I now realise how literally I was trying to portray […]
I have said that I want to continue with this current project after I have left university and in my sketchbook I have been thinking about the things I could look at in the future to push my work to […]
The hanging is finished!! It looks exactly how I envisioned it and more. When you eneter the space everywhere you look around there is something to look at so there’s an intimate feeling when you are inside. Curating the space […]
So anyway – here’s the last post prior to the art being marked – but not the last post, as I’ll pop back to update on the actual degree show; it’d be daft not to. My project has evolved & […]