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Do you know what? I am just a bit fed up with art….bored with it….not particularly interested by it. And I feel slightly guilty about it as well. Artists Talking have put a link to my blog from the home […]

Ah yes – a reasonable night of sleep results in a very full day of creativity. Well, it all turned-out not quite as planned today. I was looking forward to attending a lecture by YBA Michael Landy at UCS, to […]

New project, new blog! For the past three months I’ve been researching and developing ideas for new work in a solo exhibition that takes place in June. There’s 12 weeks until the show opens so it seems a fine time […]

HELLO. I am challenging myself to this new project. initially i thought that it could begin in April but i have needed some prep time, it is quite a dicipline that i am about to engage in, hopefully a joyful […]

PROGRESSION I saw this image of Roni Mocan “Culpa” and it has really made me think about taking my project to the next level. The image on the side is what sparked my next steps. i can not find too […]

Hannah Wilke I have chosen to focus on the artist Hannah Wilke. While Wilke was creating her self- portraits, critics constantly accused her of flaunting a too-beautiful body in her artwork. “People give me this bulls**t of, ‘what would you […]

For my New Collaboration Bursary I have invited artist Sarah Laing to collaborate with me to develop new works inspired by my recent move to Islay. Islay is one of the Inner Hebrides and is located off the West Coast […]

Killing us softly documentary Jean Killbourne is the theorist I started looking at right at the beginning of my journey with my artwork, she created a documentary called ‘Killing us softly’ which discusses the issues of the mass media. The […]

Sarah and I had an initial meeting in Glasgow in December 2013 where we caught up and talked generally about what we hoped to make and achieve with the bursary funding. The funding is covering two round trips for each […]

Painting it on canvas… I have been building up my canvas using charcoal and black oil paint mixed with white spirit. I wanted the background of my painting to be fairly dark. * I want to work from dark to […]

I started this painting yesterday. So far, I have used emulsion and pencil on the canvas. I think I was feeling quite calm and this shows in the painting. However at the moment I can see some ominous faces. It […]

Reflection on progress so far… Trapped Flesh… It is interesting to me that on reflection of my practice and blogs that trapped flesh has emerged as a theme and an emotion of inner turmoil. Something terrifying and troubled? It is […]

Film stills and own images… After a tutorial and reading back blog post 10 I have been led to revisit the idea of video stills in the context of the paintings I have been creating – Trapped Flesh I in […]

I have been watching a lot of documentaries about the sea recently. The many episodes of David Attenboroughs ‘Blue Planet’, and Films of Jacque Cousteau’s diving expeditions They provide brilliant drawing material and inspiration for compositions, textures and colour schemes. […]

my work right now has developed into a use of found objects and the prospect of what i do with them. For instance any little movement, size or colour can immediatley change the found object. I’ve had a fascination with […]

Construction Project Day #15 On day 15 I wanted to dramatically reduce the amount of materials I used within the work to a bare minimum, so I decided to employ just two light bulbs and two rolls of paper for […]

Michael Landy Lecture Yesterday the 1st of April the university had a visiting artist called Micheal Landy who is known for such works as, Breakdown, Scraphead Services and Closing Down Sale. Now he is not an artist that particularly links […]

Marianne Jorgensen and the Cast Off Knitters. This is a project i wanted to discuss briefly called Pink Tank. It is a World War II-era combat tank that was covered in thousands of knitted squares. This piece was a clooaboration […]

I made this video for the purpose of showing my creative process and the actions I perform when working with these materials. Richard Serra’s list of process words has highlighted the significance of my working process. In order for me […]

Electric kiln firing, birthdays, visitors and presentations So, a crazy weekend of firing the soda kiln (for 31 hours) and fitting in writing a magazine article about The Ceramic House for Pretty Nostalgic Magazine and mixing 16 glazes, wow it […]

With the success of the earlier experiment with cardboard and the obvious associations of cardboard with homelessness, I began to think of other materials I could use that could be linked with my subject matter. The clear answer was the […]

To see what was possible with cement on board I drew a small portrait from a source image I believe has some potential onto the cement covered mdf. I marked out the areas I wished to cut away. Bad girl […]

KG Collaboration three has been designated. There will be time before our new group of 4 will be available to meet. Time to reflect on the first two collaborations. And time to read Kester’s The One and the Many, Contemporary […]