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Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as tiny as pasteur’s microbes or as great as Einstein’s universe is the kind of work that happens less and less these days. Glued to computer screens, we have forgotten how […]

Art, profit, truth Can we profit from our art? How do artists on the periphery of the art world make sense of their struggle to maintain a practice based on a drive to create artworks? As artists we need to […]

Day 3

12/04/2014 Today’s route was by bike, foot and car. We cycled from Port Ellen to Kintra Farm on the Mull of Oa peninsula. From Kintra Farm we then walked half of a loop into the moor wilderness. In total it […]

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 […]