Another day… another wrinkle, stronger foundations, beautiful people. I am the carnival, the flame of a wild fire, that turns my life inside out, up and down. I see you, I hear you and I wonder, how can’t you not […]
Women. Society. Fragmentated. Body parts more important than them as women. Sexuality. Is it okay to show or not to show? Are Miley Cyrus, Rihannna provocative clothes and performances okay? Is she really harming young girls self esteem as they […]
my luxury today was a sausage sandwich and a coffee in a quiet corner watching the world go by. a simple pleasure was all i needed for lunch after my three days on site at the derbyshire eco centre. the […]
28 April 2014 This weekend was the Dance Digital Festival in Bedford where I presented a pilot research-in-progress exploring some interactive elemebnts in a set within which family audiences were invited to participate. I asked a lot of questions. And […]
Very briefly… Repetition, playfulness, arrangements, compositional, geommetrical, study for drawings, colour composition, perspective and patterns. As I still need to catch up and move on. I sent my dissertation “draft” last night, not really a draft but only some ideas, […]
Some collages using the pictures from the buckets in previous post. Human figure and animals. Domestic identity. I seem to refer to animals constantly in my work. I represent mostly birds, chickens and cows… It is worth a little essay […]
The Pop up Blossom Studio events at Quad, Derby were thankfully successful. Firstly the blossom workshop on the Friday for artists/teachers and community workers was enjoyed by all. After sharing the outcomes of my project they created some wonderful blossom […]
I’m started to draw more but it is easy to let it in the side specially when there is so much to do! I love drawing, it is the first mark on the paper from your thoughts, like illustrating what […]
More drawings… same as before, illustrations of thoughts and feelings along the journey, studies for future sculptures and drawing from sculpture. Must move on…
I’ve been thinking for a while about taking some of my found objects outside of the studio. In this particular case, my collection of china swans – out onto a pond or lake, setting them free to swim or whatever […]
Last time I was talking about how progress isnt linear – and in the light of recent activities I reckon its much more like a spider diagram in fact! I’m preparing for an Open Studio as part of Powys Arts […]
Over the past few weeks I have been so focused on my seaside etchings that I have admittedly neglected my blog. With the Degree Show looming I am starting to panic slightly that I have no concrete ideas about what […]
When we look at our art practice, are we bogged down with how we think we should be doing it? I went through the first dip last year. Aside from feeling like I was way too close to the edge, […]
Sarah Laing: I am looking forward to our next meet-up as I suspect we have broken off down many different thought-paths individually from when we last met. I think the challenge right now is to get as much imagery out […]
Following a successful application to KARST’s Artist Residency Programme, I am spending a week developing a new video piece in an individual studio space at KARST. KARST is a non-profit contemporary art venue in Plymouth, which comprises a public gallery […]
Over the course of our collaboration we’ll each be posing ongoing questions to each other that relate to our work, individual and collaborative. Firstly Sarah Laing responds to three quesions I asked her after our first meeting. Q.1 Please outline […]
ON THE BLURRING OF ART AND LIFE Last month I blogged about the difficulty of running physical space in London, because of the property values and the sheer expense of it. In the last few months there been some very […]
In an effort to get this blog off to a flying start I’ve decided to cheat – chopping up bits of a blog post I did last year about beta games. Though I suppose the fact that I’m cheating is […]
Progress…
Yesterday I went to London to see some shows. Matisse at Tate Modern, Marvin Gaye Chetwyind at Sadie Coles HQ, Pangea: New art from Africa and Latin America at Saatchi Gallery and Dieter Roth, Arnulf Rainer – Collaborations at Hauser […]
We have moved. And we have begun to ready the space for the exhibition. Here is the facebook page with info about the event… LAST ONE TO LEAVE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS But incase you can’t access that link, here […]
A blog tracing the development of a new series of works exploring the movement of objects through ludic co-ordinates.
