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Why Craft? Importantly i choose to work with craft because i enjoy the personal, thoughtful touches you can create using your hands. I like how i can zone out and go into my own world where it is just me […]

………..continued ‘I kind of struggle with my curmudgeonliness here because I should be all-embracing and the art world should close ranks and we should all say yes everything we do is really brilliant. And in many ways, I am a […]

Text by Victoria Gray How can movement become sound? To answer this question, myself, Victoria Gray, a visual artist specializing in video and performance, and, Oliver Larkin, a musician and software programmer, have embarked on a collaborative initiative. This initiative […]

Here are some thoughts from one of the artists in the Topography Disarranged exhibition, Erin Solomons: During the making of this work, I became aware of how potent visceral objects of photography can be. The discoloration and watermarks on the […]

My piece Recordings from a Site of Minor Disorder, commissioned for the Letchworth: A Vision of Utopia exhibition is now up! It has been such a tight deadline from initial brief to now, that I have barely had a moment […]

Artist Research- Jean Francois Nielly Since deciding to explore colour I have come across various artists that have used and manipulated colours either directly or indirectly in their work. The Artist that first stuck me was the French artist: Jean […]

These images are of recent works I made in response to viewing some mixed media images online. I was inspired by the brick dust and earthy materials for these paintings and used chalk to create the textures on the surface. […]

Light & Flesh There is a relationship between light and flesh which has run throughout art history. During January I attended a talk on the Italian Renaissance held by lecturer John Sheeran. I found this lecture really useful in expanding […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat was heavily influenced by Cy Twombly. Richard Marshall states that, Twombly was one of the few artists that Basquiat cited as an influence and “his impact is apparent in his numerous loose, scratchy and scribbled works” (Marshall 1996:35). […]

Continuing to work with the materials that I used last year I have been drawing up several ideas that focus on the use of the simple shape and combination of materials. The main focus of these ideas for future work […]

So I had started painting on my big canvas yesterday, but it wasnt stretched as tightly as it could be and after talking with Jane today she suggested that it would be best to restretch the canvas. Jane suggested that […]

I feel that clarification is needed on what my intentions for my work are when I say that it should be ‘interesting enough to sustain itself’. Wanting something to be interesting is rather a broad statement, much like Donald Judd’s […]

Exhibition Planning I have my first solo exhibition on 4th April at Gage Gallery in Sheffield, so I’m busy trying to prepare. I’ve got some work to get finished off, as well as all the usual planning and promoting to […]

Recording day today! Can be heard at https://www.dropbox.com/s/svwapvzsd2ibvmd/March%2011th%202014%2010.14am%20copy.wav Peter Barnard did the previous layer in a park, my layer was on a train. Think I need to play it loudly in the residency space and see what response it commands. […]

Well, here I am, w0budong installation in Manchester centre complete, staying in Salford with my youngest daughter and her partner, which is extremely convenient and a lovely chance to catch up with them both. http://w0budong.wordpress.com Many thanks to Andrew Dalton, […]

Manchester today and installing the w0budong exhibition with Jayne Lloyd, Sue Gough, Julie Brixey-Williams and Clare Smith. The space is incredible – brilliant natural light.