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Le passage du temps, 2013 This piece was amazing, it was painful to set it all up, each lampshade was hanging from the ceiling with fishing line, I didn’t have a plan about where to hang each lampshades, I just […]

Some things don’t go away. If someone is hurt and humiliated and their feelings not sufficiently acknowleged, they either turn away in anger – leave the course – or fight so something similar doesn’t happen again to another student. This […]

Yesterday, I had an interesting visit to Sheffield – it was my first time there. True to form, despite how many maps I print out in advance, I still manage to get incredibly lost and subsequently run late – no […]

In his later years, my father had a woman, Timéa (Timi) who came to help with the cooking and cleaning. After he died and I took on the house I decided that it made sense for her to keep coming. […]

Artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt makes art out of rubbish; such as sweet wrappers, shiny plastics, tin foil, beer cans and all kinds of stuff. His work “Tender is love among the junk” involves iconography- the decorative culture of the Roman Catholic […]

Well nothing goes to plan….. Got some images printed only to discover there were marks all across the prints so had to get them redone. A huge thank you to Russel at Mailbox for coming to my rescue! Got business […]

I called in at my studio on Monday evening to empty the flower vase which I suspected might be full of very past-it flowers, steeped in stagnant water. I was right and I’m glad I rescued them before the acrid […]

Fresh Start It had the feeling of a TV game show: 48 hours to come up with a new location and concept. I rarely feel creative under pressure, but during 2 days back on Arran I was blessed with good […]

It’s the start of day 3 of my residency at Metal Southend. Day 1 was a travel day that ended with ice cream and fish and chips by the sea, so Day 2 was the first proper day. I spent […]

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16.4.14 A lot going on here at the Brindley this week. Our latest exhibition Castlefields of Dream & Inside, Outside In-between is being well received by visitors – it’s been a great opportunity to showcase the talents of local young […]

Construction Project Day #19 I built a den! With the intention of using no lighting element within this work, I built a cotton ‘shape’ within my space. I would have preferred it to have been a perfect cube with stretched […]

The first of my glass casts worked! After something like five days in the kiln I was delighted to discover that the mould held up, and that the glass melted, set, and cooled as it should do. The second, of […]