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It seems ironic to me that over the past few weeks, I feel like I’ve had everything and yet nothing to say. It’s been three weeks since I posted here, at which point I wrote about tying black gags around […]

→ continued from above I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing what I’m doing here and what I’m achieving, if anything (I call it artling). There’s some sense to it: Both my brother and I were profoundly influenced by my […]

The photographs I’ve been looking at sway deliriously between public and private spheres. They are highly significant for me now; even more so for my dad’s (widowed) mother who at some stage will have received one of these cards; but […]

Lilac Sediment After this painting had dried I wanted a gloss finish so I added a layer of PVA. I have to admit when applying it I was confused as to why a yellowy brown pigment was coming through into […]

These works in the images are those of experiments I have been doing in rebellion to the pressure I feel to produce works of a large scale. With the pieces being about technique and the relationship between mediums I feel […]

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Playing with contradictions When I started this piece, I had taken a whole load of photographs of various mundane and ordinary objects we come across every day. In this particular painting, it started off with a set of house keys. […]

These images are stills of a video of me working on one of my paintings. The finished image in comparison to my earlier experiments, seems unsuccessful. However to me it has taught me a lot. I was working on cardboard […]

Multiple roles Developing the ‘Manse’ characteristics I love the idea of a split personality and this represented in two very different looks. Yet again the theme of a mixed identity keeps coming up in my work. This makes reference to […]

I am in the process of improving one of my existing Installations, and thinking about some of my research which so far has considered religious rituals, mythology and folklaw. For example, did you know that a “wicca” circle is a […]

Alison Berry & Sonia Griffin: Using the works by Ruth Payne and Val Bolsover as a starting point, it has been a challenge to develop ideas that incorporate both as they are so different in visual appearance and in concept. […]

Construction Project Day #7 Back to the drawing board… literally! By using my photographs of pre-existing/past work and working on top of them, I have created ideas and/or proposals for new works. See if you can recognize any of the […]

A good collaboration with Rie Suto today. We have worked together before at Albert Dock, Liverpool so we know each others work and ways of working which always helps. She was taken with the uneven surface of the walls, how […]

It was whilst perusing the artwork at the Saatchi Gallery, during my London visit, when I came across the artist Chantal Joffe, whose work I have researched in the past. Despite my immediate interest in the subject matter of her […]

24th February 2014 Weather: Spring in the air after tempests and floods. Picking up the thread of a thought from back in June on lifespans. (But first; just for anyone who is interested in the outcome of my broken van […]

Grayson Perrry is one of the artists I studied when writing my dissertation. This Image is a etching of his entitled the The map of Nowhere it is based on a famous example, The Ebstorf Map, which was distroyed in […]

Today I find myself sitting in a hotel room pondering tomorrow. I have been given the opportunity to attend the a-n No Boundaries Conference in York and so I wait for a day to see what it brings. I don’t […]

If any exhibition is going to demonstrate the vast parameters of contemporary art today it is the current Martin Creed show at the Hayward Gallery. At a point where my confidence regarding my artwork was not particularly high, this exhibition […]

Today working in the studio I have continued to explore and develop ideas for work based on aspects of the horizon looking out from a shoreline position into the distance…. having as a child grown up by the sea there […]

I have had the good furtune to mention to a fellow student my interest in a type of rock and just as luck would have it he had an previous colleague who is a geologist. I have emailed him this […]

An ex-art student in Olby muses with mother on the success of a friend she’s just spotted in the top 100 of the hip Pointeso Dayscreamer Emerging Arts Journal. Ex student A: ‘I can’t believe that she’s getting all this […]

33 days till I travel to New York State and now Debra (our host) is posting us pictures of the heavy snow there. I’m going to have to rethink my choice of clothes. That’s probably a stupid thing to be […]

Another week has passed and I’m still working on my Arts Council application, which I have set the deadline of Monday, March 3rd to submit. One of my planned meetings last week to finalise details had to be postponed until […]