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Had to have a few days away from residency space, I have been installing work for New Art West Midlands at the Barber Institute but it has been important thinking time. It is easy to get to close and involved […]

A few days to go until I set foot in Fabrica with a jumble of equipment, tools and thoughts. Five days of exploration and experimentation. Five days of thinking and being material in space and place. Tried not to plan […]

Concept behind the Painting Conceptually the painting deals with my friend’s bi polar disorder. Originally I wanted to paint the picture entirely in black and white to exemplify in colour (or tones) the bi polaryness i was trying to convey. […]

We are working quietly behind the scenes to organise the Landscape Show at QH this May. Lots of list-making, emailing and chasing up of images and text. But the title of the show still eludes us, wavering between this and […]

Not been on here for a long while. Been heavily creating. This January I worked solid on a work for the theatre. This was called ‘Magdalene’. The process was quite an epic adventure; writing, producing, desigining and making stage sets, […]

THURSDAY blog 4 aaaargh time is getting short, i feel overwhelmed with what i have to do, not just this project but a new set of workshops for kids at the park in wythenshaw plus being a mum plus being […]

thursday blog 5 here it is. Folly Stones The cutting of the stone was a procedure in the 15th century involving trepanation (craniotomy) a surgeon or physician would extract a stone from the head of the afflicted. The stone in […]

So i have been in a bit of a limbo and the past few week. I have been trying to get my head around what i am actually doing. The London art fair has given me loads of interesting ideas […]

In my studio at the moment my series of work is inspired by the woodland area where I spent a week in early January. I was continually surrounded by the beautiful scenery and peacefulness that the environment exuded. Even when […]

After some researching I came across an exhibition in St Ives last year that was all about how different artists had imagined the sea over the years. It was called Aquatopia. I then came across some paintings by an artist […]

For this Grow An Exhibition project, over the last month I’ve been contacting and meeting potential partners, collecting information and getting advice from various artist friends. It is all slowly coming together and I have been amazed by all the […]

Construction Project Day #3 Day 3 was short but fruitful. A simple arrangement of stacked T9 circular florescent bulbs covered with coloured filter transparencies alluded to the colour theory that when all colours (in light terms – not pigment) are […]

Alessandro has been working on this piece titled Parcel. Here is what he had to say about it: “I made a cast of myself and covered it in brown paper normally used to wrap parcels.The sculpture suggests that maybe there […]

My work is still in an experimentation mode, currently trying to find how I myself articulate the natural environment. My studio space currently shows experiments with paint and mixed media pieces of work. My space also shows a range of […]

I think for now that I’ve had my fill of feelings… I want to concentrate on the good things… Time to change the focus… I sent off my proposal for the National Sculpture Prize today… Soooo out of my comfort […]

‘Thoughts on making art and where its made’ ‘The Cooler’ absolutley essential. I can not for a moment imagine not having a workshop. I would not be able to opporate without a workspace. I guess those who haven’t find a […]