Captured my video today. It’s very simple and took just one take. Working with my old DV camera positioned on the floor surface, objects were introduced to the frame one by one. Clear plastic tubs, red oversize brandy glass, navy […]
As I got off the train last night it struck me that if I am serious about wanting part-time teaching then I need to make myself more relevant. It was a somewhat sudden and unbidden thought and I am wondering […]
Yesterday was a busy day, sorting out spaces to place our final degree show, which is just over a month’s time. We discussed spaces that would be available to be used, and listed my name in a couple. just incase […]
Alex Wednesday 30th April I had a really encouraging first meeting with Josh today. We want to get the ball rolling and talked in some depth about possible interactions and approaches. I am nervous to share ideas normally but we […]
Throughout this whole degree project I have focused largely upon the production of dry point etchings which make up a large percentage of my body of work. Given the time I have put into these prints I think I made […]
Josh Wednesday 30th April Having met with Alex today, it seems that we both have enough ideas for a series of projects. We can now begin to single out our thoughts and put them into practice. During our conversation, there […]
Paper Savagery.
At the start of this year the main idea I had was that I wanted to create large semi abstract seascapes that had a real atmospheric feel to them. This idea is something different to what I have worked on […]
Hestercombe house, a grand 90-something room building, has an odd and intriguing past. The first known residents were the Warres family in 1391 and over years the house has gone though many changes and adaptions. The last person to live […]
The second page in visual correspondence for Revolve:R.
This May Day bank holiday weekend sees the launch of the Bristol Art Weekender, a four-day event that brings together 16 of the city’s visual arts venues, producers and artist-run initiatives for the first time. We talk to some of those involved and investigate the wider context for the upsurge in cultural activity in the city.
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 […]
