Page 1159 – a-n The Artists Information Company

As a child during the 1970s, I would be consuming American popcorn movies at the ABC Edgware Road / Harrow Road. I recall When The North Wind Blows (man co-exists with tiger, 1974) and King Kong (men in conflict with […]

I’ve been painting for some fourteen years now. I really want to say something clever or amazing about my work, but the fact is I paint farm animals, and I paint them because I love them. They are my passion. […]

this is my attempt to add a vid of myself in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLzQNhawRM #Oraya’sArt well i did it i did it. OK itwasnt the best video, but it made some of you laugh right? it is a record of how […]

REJECTION, REJECTION, REJECTION… AND ONE SUCCESS More than 3 rejections actually. Until last Friday I had a 100% rejection rate for 2014. Looking back at my last 4 blog posts I can see that everything I’ve done in the last […]

Day 2

Following on from my discoveries of the hidden plinths and unusual exhibiting spaces, I have begun my experimental phase of placing site specific works into them. This is my first – taking the shape of the frame of the space, […]

The other day I was thinking about the Magdalene Laundries, this was a place where Irish women were deemed guilty of having Illegitimate children. Magdalene Laundries were also known as Asylums, a house for women who had fallen from moral […]

Next week, Flis Holland and I will embark upon our collaborative project. Beginning with a week long residency / exhibition that has been secured at Vapaan Taiteen Tila in Helsinki, we hope to use this time to develop an ongoing […]

A visit to tate Modern Yesterday revealed a surprise as I was able to see Leon Golubs Vietnam II I had done my dissertation based on Golub and Martha Roslers art works that emerged from the horror of events that […]

I’ve been back a week and no let up in the pace! It’s been even more of a whirlwind than being in Denmark was, well, what was I expecting? So no time to even blog this week. After a 22 […]

I’m changing. This year, despite being a part-time student, I have been spending as much of my time as possible involved in my studies and my studio enviroment. My initial reason was that I can achieve more – make more […]

There’s a strong parallel between the ageing process I wrote about in my last post and these past few days’ ongoing finds in the boxes. It’s all about history and the passing of time; so much personal history and by […]