Found a stone and told me to smile Part 2 Brooklyn subway 2 days later on a busy New York subway, I saw a woman wearing the same seed on a chain placed on her neck. I was shocked as […]
I was asked to give a talk at the Ipswich Art society about my work. The event came at a good time for me as I was about to start my blog and this would a good opportunity to have […]
The fuel that have kept me engrossed over the years of exploring project 5am has been that this fleeting moment was the first time that I had experience the state of “being” in its purest form. “Before” that my perception […]
I’ve been busy recently, completing the new series on aluminium in my studio at Magdalen Road, printmaking at Oxford Printmakers, preparing some new videos for a show in St Petersburg and completing some large paintings for a show at the […]
While doing my dissertation I came across the term intersectionality which definition is described as the study of intersections between different disenfranchised groups or groups of minorities. This term captured the process of my project as I was exploring an […]
Part of the joy of being an artist (at least until you hit the big time) is the neccessity of having a ‘portfolio career’. Circumstantially, I wear a lot of hats and one of these is as Sudborough Green Lodge […]
i am currently studying at ucs, i am in my third year doing a degree in fine art
I made it into the studio this week – finally! Virus behind me, sons’ exams over – a clear day for myself and nine solid, solitary hours of sorting and rearranging. Just a few stray bits and pieces piled up […]
A new, historically sensitive space at Edinburgh’s former City Observatory on Calton Hill expands Collective’s programme of Scottish and international work.
Found a stone and told me to smile Part 1: 2010 London Victoria I was in the area on my day off from work buying travel items for a trip to Brooklyn a day later. I was crossing a zebra […]
Second chapter. Westminster Reference Library. In reverse it started with an opening and performative collective reading. It made me realise how much I have worked on in the first part of my residency (November 2013) including large scale installation photographs, […]
Artists working with Museums I was intrigued to see a number of recent FB and twitter posts marketing multiple-choice options for the public to select what museum an artist should work with. The Connect 10 vote is a social media […]
My previous research into artists creating and deconstructing museums (in week 53) has led me to consider the ways in which artists have intervened in museums, either through being commissioned to respond to the collection, creating interpretive works, or sometimes […]
I have been experiencing a feeling of panic this week. I made a rash decision to book my flight to Berlin, just to feel like I was taking decisive action. Anyway, 11th March is the date set for my journey. […]
**Idea** I had an idea! This idea is to buy some glass vials/bottles from the shop that have cork plugs. Every time I have an idea, I am going to write it onto a piece of rizzla and place it […]
To start this new post christmas term, my research will begin with Cy Twombly. Twombly was a big influence in my work during the first term of last year and helped me progress technically. This quote from his website defines […]
From the last two years doing my degree I feel my technical ability with portraiture is getting a lot stronger, and I would like to create something for the degree that is different to what I’ve done before. I think […]
I don’t really know how much I should write here anymore… I have been warned that this could get me into trouble… legally handcuffed. A sense of fear prevails at work… an apathy… the stench of defeat… people broken and […]
Recipes for Dyeing Rangers, Gardeners and Estate Workers, have all been intrigued by my water experiments. A weaver from the island was called up regarding natural dyes; black oak galls were suggested. Gardeners checked the estate inventory, sadly no Quercus […]
I have always seen gardening as a lovely way to pass time in the outdoors. Watching, over time, as a seed miraculously turns into a magnificent plant of amazing beauty… even the ‘weeds’. A few years ago an artist friend […]
Fabulous news, I managed to pick up some sparklers today. Good old John Lewis does it again. I’ve sorted out the pantry in to a make shift darkroom, looking really forward to tomorrow.
Progress! Painting on a larger scale than my recent work. One of my tutors mentioned John Cage in relation to the work I’m making now. The scale of this work meant I worked quite differently on the top, middle and […]
Went for a walk and took some great images of the sky and how the light was so changable. Love the images but not sure what to do with them, might just keep taking them and make them in to […]
Today’s work grasp. Working with some of the forms I found interesting from yesterdays painting.
The Pointeso Biennale. The Hessler Biennale stems from a project by the Traye Presele Collective, directed by Terry Plasover in 2009. Following the Indentine Biennale’s closure in 1995 the Biennale proceeded by an annual event from 1999– 2003 entitled ‘Mystified […]
