Another Delay: I don’t want to turn this blog into another one about waiting. My other blog called ‘The cooler King’ www.a-n.co.uk/p/1583194 was all about waiting…….Waiting for this project to start, and I describes in a veiled way the reasons […]
Process I thought I would tell you a little bit about the process I am using to produce my letters. I am using Microsoft word, and I randomly pick different typography’s for different leters. Examples of the different fonts are […]
Three questions that Sarah posed to me regarding my practice and working processes as part of our New Collaboration Bursary project. Q1. I almost always work individually in the studio and have rarely collaborated until now. You had a strong […]
Meeting 1: There was something on the jawbone that appeared to be soft tissue, though on closer inspection it turned out to be a pulped remnant of the brown paper bag Carolyn uses to store the pig skull. The pig […]
No to £650 consists of four vignettes that focuses on different types of invisibility. 1st vignette was created in 2012 inspired by the Ralph Ellison book ‘invisible man’ * 2nd vignette created after days attending the Maggie Hambling talk The […]
My main focus recently has been trying to find a main focus. Blessed or cursed with a wide variety of different creative endeavours, finding one on which to build my new career has been difficult. This is not helped by […]
I’ve been back from Southend for nearly 3 weeks now, and the time and space that I had at METAL for thinking about the work has disappeared into a flurry of adult education teaching, family art workshops, supporting the local […]
To explore why how this incident occurred I will use the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu theories of cultural capital and field theory. Glossary of terms Habitus – “A structuring structure, which organizes practices and the perception of practices. eg people […]
Over the past few days I have been working on a collection of smaller paintings depicting the landscape. They are of an abstract nature where I used a roller and acrylic paint to create the background. I then left the […]
Construction Project Day #23 Referencing the painterly even more than on any other day, I made a simple balancing construction from postal tubes and painted aluminum. The colours reflected in each metal sheet as they were positioned one on top […]
Quotes from Skinning the Paint by Emily Braun, a key text in contextualising my project. I will reflect back on this and try and more clearly pair parts of this text with my work. ‘In the history of art, Titian […]
A few weeks ago I responded to the images of my swollen flesh. I was particularly interested in the fact that in this changed state my face had become a trace of my emotions. My emotions had temporarily scared the […]
Phase II of ‘a little bit of austrai’ involves planning a house for the land in Austria. For that I am setting up an office like framework in the gallery of S1 Artspace where I am continuing my work as […]
Finally today I could get into the gallery space at S1 Artspace and start setting up. The table looks a lot smaller in the space than I thought. I have started painting the seven stools black. They will be positioned […]
I have been busy working on my sculpture/drawing for the PAPER show at the Barnaby Festival. I am one of the two artists making a larger work – the other one being artist Phill Hopkins. I am making a sculpture […]
Just in the depths of the busiest week bringing the app together but my side of things in terms of handing over the content is almost done… I just hope that what seems to make sense to me, actually makes […]
Stay on the case. I have been lucky enough with this project to find plenty of bang on context, with many major contemporary artists dealing with the same issues or working in a similar way. British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare addressed […]
What happened to the Agencies? Having ran into difficulties finding suitable models to paint from life I was glad that I had not put all my eggs in one basket. From the outset I intended to paint also from found […]
