I had not counted on it snowing during the residency – an oversight as I did not bring either studs for my running shoes nor sufficient warm layers of running wear. Compounded by increasingly late sunrises I realise that I […]
Writing and working with text … presenting text … presenting words has caught my imagination. It is something that we have done at various times over the past two weeks. And it is something that I have reflected back upon […]
Sorcha, Aina, Kristjan, Mattias and I ended up at an intimate concert in an apartment on Thursday evening. An intense man played guitar and sang in Latvian to a crowd of twenty or so students(?) who were sitting on the […]
Yesterday I made some flags from materials found around the building. As works, or perhaps pieces of what might become an installation, they are (un)familiar to me. The flag form is something that has evolved in my thinking over the […]
Well, my guilt at the thought of other people reading this has subsided- I am quite happy in the knowledge that there is a web wide indifference to my ‘blog about prevaricating about doing something creative’ . A real weight […]
My project to go In Search of Silicon Valley has come to a close. The final outcomes included ‘A Cybernetic Meadow’ – a new installation at The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough, plus a zine and a talk. The project has […]
CRITICAL THRESHOLD (Caps) is an interactive abstract Augmented Reality (AR) piece of artwork currently exhibited on the side of Ebor Studio building, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, as part of the Billboard Project which is sponsored by the Arts Council England. The […]
Two very different artists responses to the shifting skyline of Manchester. Exhibited at a Deansgate popup gallery and online.
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This morning’s run took me passed the Swiss and the German ambassadors’ residencies. Every morning of the residency, except while we were away in the country, I have been for a run. The runs are about 40 minutes, I have […]
It is difficult to define what being here is giving me – as I write ’giving’ I wonder if I should expect that being here should give me something. I am getting something out of being here – not just […]
Why collect shopping lists? In this episode Guy Bigland tells me how (and why) he uses systems, constraints and rules to create paintings, prints, books and digital media. His latest work ‘All The Time In The World’ lists every second […]
A long meandering conversation via zoom led to an interesting debate about sculpture and forms, about materiality and air, about straight taut grids and floppy flailing grilles. Plan includes starting this conversation via a blog and testing out ideas, experimenting […]
Having shown work at the same venue in 2014, Sharon Haward and Laura Porter hit a chord, stayed in touch and finding many common themes in their work are now putting together a new body of work to exhibit. This blog reflects the ongoing conversation between them.
Hi there. Feeling a bit lost in the woods I thought i’d join A-N to forge some new connections but now I’m here I’m sort of wondering what I’ve paid for? I’ve attended two private views for art prizes in […]
Come along to view paintings, prints, reproductions and a few of my Daily Drawings sketchbooks! Little Nomad Gallery, Keighley Arts Hub 5 November – 17 December 2022 “Vivid, gestural oil paintings display a fascination with facial expressions. Viv has the […]
Most people in the arts seem to accept and even embrace that collaboration is embedded in much of what we do, so when it came to pondering whether to run another cycle of the art award I set up […]
