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The heart’s electro magnetic field is over 50 times more powerful than the brain’s. Hearts communicate with other hearts and two pieces of different hearts tissue in a petrie dish will synchronise and pulse together. This also works with animals […]

A slightly unrelated blog post. Recently I have seen many films about art and it’s affect on the world, starting with Monuments Men and just last week The Book Thief. Art in film has always been a major influence on […]

MY MENIFESTO My studio wall seems to be presenting itself as a manifesto. My words are my manifesto, my interpretation on Art and my questions that I find accruing in the Art world from discussions and thoughts from myself. Here […]

On Rejection I have just had a couple of rejections following proposals for projects /residencies. As we all know, this is part of the job. At the start of the mentoring programme, I was advised to buy a book called […]

Whilst ‘Shelf Life’ – My exhibition currently showing at Gage Gallery, Sheffield – covers a broad spectrum of concerns regarding food, one of its most coherent avenues of enquiry is the principle of aligning the value of art to the […]

I have a neat stack of mini business cards, each with a “w0budong” related original drawing on the back. It has been an amazingly creative process making each of these tiny drawings; my thoughts have wandered and meandered, images of […]

An invisible man makes the invisible…visible! As Solomon Northup clings on for dear life, his head caught in a noose, outstretched with his feet on their tip toes on slip away from death. His suffering is invisible as his hanging […]

Fiona Roberts – In Residence As a sort of aperitf (or aperitivo as Italian Katie says) to our landscape show, Topography Disarranged, we’re delighted that painter Fiona Roberts has taken over the Project Space for a few days of precious […]

Currently watching: Garbage Warrior (2007), 86 mins, dir Oliver Hodge. “What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing […]

Construction Project Day #9 As a development from Day 8, I have produced this work consisting of 3 flourescent stick-lights wrapped in primary coloured cellophane which stand on their corresponding coloured acrylic panel. I would like to add to this […]

Extended the residency for another couple of weeks and thinking of having an opening. One more collaboration to go with Toronto artist/curator, Araya Vivorakij. The ongoing sound mix with Peter Barnard is continuing, current layers can be heard at https://www.dropbox.com/s/3r99x7ixs6f0brd/March%204th%20mix.wav […]

Transitions toward a therapeutic art that re -connects us with the natural world in order to allow time to recover, reflect, and escape the busyness of the everyday …” a time to stop and stare.” Yesterday Guest speaker Maggi Hambling […]

The Kerlin Gallery has been a big influence on my research recently giving me Callum Innes and more currently Elizabeth Magill, Mark Francis and Phillip Allen. All of these exhibit elements of paint and a relationship with paint that I […]

I’ve made changes to the large Orford Ness painting that has to do with the sense of wasteland including leftover structures from the past. I removed the pyramid shape in the middle which was superflous (what was I thinking about?) […]

Really enjoyed the Maggi Hambling talk at UCS today – glad I decided to go. The video of her installation War Requiem was very dark and emotional. I liked a lots of things that she said: – “Great art takes […]