I’ve now added a layer of blue, cut-out words and find it is distracting away from the form. Using different colours isn’t helping me to see the gap between meaningful and random writing.
Saturday afternoon was spent in the Project Space as several artists brought their work in – it was great to meet the artists with their work. I took advantage of the space to test the video piece in the show […]
I Started work on another piece today. I have reused canvases that I was not pleased with and put them together like pieces of a puzzle. I think that its important to try and keep as much out of landfill […]
The last few weeks have been busy busy busy. Handing in the official blog on the deadline, gave me a chance to stop stressing and get back in the studio for the final half a term of making art and […]
i’m still really not firing on all cylinders today yet. i’d like to be as i really need to add some details here as to what i started over the weekend at the Derbyshire eco centre. one aspect i’d not […]
The nature of obsession in art…. Can there be art without obsession? And if there is obsession without art, is that when the trouble starts? Being over here in the US has given me time to reflect upon this. My […]
Getting my pay slip on Monday, reminded me that there are many pros to working for someone else. I’d only spent a few days of the month in work, the rest of the time I’d been off travelling…exploring…exhibiting…meeting other artists, […]
As my work becomes increasingly about deterioration in line with how remembering can be flawed, I have begun to take this further and consider complete absence of memories. From the start of my project, from when I presented my project […]
Big Bangs & Black Holes Mental health illnesses are a huge part of our modern society. All around us we hear stories of young people killing themselves or of schizophrenic patients murdering their support workers. But what is the reality […]
Started my residency yesterday. I have keys to a studio for the first time since making use of my incubator space at Exeter Phoenix in 2010. I can’t afford a studio and it works OK for me at home – […]
Academic Irit Rogoff concurs with our daughter’s verdict that ‘Art’s just chatting.’ We happened to click onto the e-flux journal and found an essay by Rogoff. In it she examines ‘the educational turn’, describing how, in the wake of Documenta […]
Another busy day and late night today. I have managed to do some work which I’m not sure about it but at least I have tried to create something new from scratch. Today I bought around 2200 Minky multipurpose cloths […]
Eight international projects are in the running for the £30,000 award to create a future-facing artwork for Bristol and beyond.
This week we take a walk to Walsall for a career-spanning survey of Richard Long’s prints, head for London to explore themes of image manufacture and exchange with Andreas Gursky, and catch Dan Dubowitz and Alan Ward’s exhibition in Manchester charting the recent refurbishment of the city’s Central Library.
Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since I last put together a blog entry – not because I’ve been holidaying in the Bahamas or anything; far from it! In the first week, I visited my studio space at uni […]
Week two of my Easter period shenanigans (last week) was spent on such a vast variety of creative activities that I’ll really have to leave it ’til tomorrow to divulge more. Suffice it is to say that I have been […]
I dont feel so guilty now I read Claire Eastgate’s new blog: www.a-n.co.uk/p/4558498 What she says about working as an artist for money and the satifaction that brings or does’t bring is something I have wrestled with on and off […]
Back blogging after a break! I have been really busy, showing work, giving a talk in Germany and organising workshops. I really must thank Ruth Geldard for her great piece capturing the feeling of the artist-to-artist workshop I organised recently […]
Week 72: 27th January – 2nd FebruaryIn developing my understanding of collections studies and the ways in which it might contribute towards my research, I decided to focus on the work of Susan M Pearce, Professor Emeritus of Museum Studies […]
I’ve put together a series of ‘community chest’ style cards that bring together the statistics on housing. I’ve tried to channel the instructive nature of the cards, with the idea that they can effect a movement. They are only a […]
During meditaion i am often drawn to chant, sometimes a mantra often the OM and often SHIi. Chanting or singing vibrates the human body and frees the breath and therefore energy – releasing tension and harmoniously calming & cheering the […]
