Summer term started on 1st April – someone at Nottingham Uni has a sense of humour. This week I’ve been very focussed on making drawings about walking around the ground floor of my house. – Experimenting with sizes, media and […]
In 2010 I was invited to participate in a small group show with artists Melanie Stidolph (www.melaniestidolph.com) and Richard Paul (www.richardgpaul.co.uk) called Pareidolia. This is a phenomenon that describes the human mind’s tendency to perceive recognizable shapes and images in […]
Furiously Mad – Imran I started working on my artworks for the Furiously Mad exhibition in Autumn 2013. This is one of a few exhibitions by Pool Arts that I’ve been involved in. I think it’s a good way of […]
Robin Thicke. One of the most successful songs of 2013 is called ‘Blurred Lines’ the song constantly repeats the lyrics ‘I know you want it’ and suggests that ‘Good girls’ are not innoncent and they also ‘want it’ not only […]
Process Videoing my current painting has provoked some thoughts and questions about my work. Why am I videoing it? I originally thought it would be interesting to record the process of my painting, which normally, is something only I get […]
It’s strange watching my year 11 GCSE pupils doing their 10 hour practical exam… to realize just how much I miss studio practice… the luxury of a solid block of time just to make Art… the culmination of research, experimentation […]
I have successfully made my first video. Considering I have never edited a video or made a video myself before, I think I have done an ok job. It does show the process well though it’s speeded up about 16x […]
We had the art auction a couples weeks ago and it went really well, here’s the piece I submitted for the auction a portrait of David Bowie. Yesterday I went to the Marylebone Parish Church in London for the Contemporary […]
This is my work on display at the British Contemporary Painters exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, St Marylebone Rd, London. The exhibition runs until May 1st.
Lightbulb Moment While Talking to a Friend. After a brief peer discussion about my work in progress i have came to a developed idea about my degree project. The developement is with reagards to my crochet cube cages. I have […]
April 3 SOLD A PAINTING Actually I’ve sold two recently….not that I’m cheering exactly. It’s slightly wierd parting with an object you’ve sweated blood over. Kind of miss them. Was glad to sell the big one, River Stour.….200 x160 …..where […]
Continuing Painting- As many as Possible After my tutorial with Jane I decided that I would try to make as many paintings as possible over the course of the next week. The reason being I was getting to caught up […]
Continuing Painting (2) As with my previous post, this selection of paintings is also about my attempt to move my work forward through excessive painting and experimenting. These works are much the same size except for Untitled (5) & (6), […]
the last furiously mad project blog. 2 days befor the launch. everyone has been workin really hard over the past week to get the show looking smooth, tying everyones work together with a beautiful yellow time line. i have really […]
Political Aspect My concerns and feelings about social issues had never previously been addressed through my art. Over the duration of the course so far my thoughts have gradually evolved to the point where I now believe that my work […]
This last thinking phase has nearly swallowed me whole. I was doing things the wrong way around, trying to work through my pile of things that need organising before painting and therefore getting very little painting done. (Talking about the […]
In 1963 Andy Warhol was comissioned to do an Art’s feature, this particular projected sparked a 3 year long obsession with photobooths. There was a collection released in 1989 by The Robert Miller Gallery of New York with pictures of […]
This blog looks at the reoccurring themes that manifest in and influence my work considering where they might come from.
Performing Stillness Emma Cocker A hugely contrasting text to the first session, Performing Stillness was penetrable, but still challenging, and illustrated with plenty of real life examples. It proposed stillness as an act of resistance, in a contemporary world of […]
This year’s FutureEverything in Manchester included an art programme looking at the role of technology in the cities of the future, and exploring how mass data gathering and surveillance is affecting our lives. Bob Dickinson reports from the festival’s ‘pop-up urban experiment’.
The Canal & River Trust has announced an ambitious programme of contemporary art as part of its Arts on the Waterways programme.
