I want…pomegranates and rosewater Journal extract from 4.10.2007 ‘ It’s autumn now…and I am almost fully pregnant with my second child…we planted a pomegranate tree in the front garden, it was like planting my mother as i have such strong associations […]
I’m pleased to be starting an artists’ residency with In Certain Places from 2014. My recent work has considered ideas around contemporary work-life, and radical opposition/alternatives to it – and I’ll be continuing to look at the way it shapes […]
Hotel Elephant’s recent move from the Heygate Estate to Newington Causeway in South London sees the launch of its first shop and café, along with studios, a gallery and projection room within 15,000 square feet of warehouse space.
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
3 – 4 October 2013
Well all the artists chosen, all the artists hung and all three of us co- curators are still talking to each other. I think it looks really good, but then it’s partly my taste, I am part of the decision […]
I’m a very solitary worker, but I value the contact with other artists, and it’s important to be able to share work with peers – so when I went along to Kent Creative Arts meeting yesterday to talk about my […]
Cold grey drizzle over London but in the British Museum’s El Dorado it was pitch black with case after case of gold artefacts shimmering under their spotlights- and security in every corner. A big exhibition and really immersive given that […]
It takes me time to consider and formalise the words that I place here. Seldom is this a spontaneous process for me… so I’m already pondering the wisdom of New Years resolutions… but I recognise that as sloth, sitting on […]
Self knowledge is a wonderful thing yet knowing something and acting upon it are two VERY different fish. Before Christmas I was running around like a headless chicken – literally running in my own house, frantically trying to get everything […]
A Turner Prize winner and three former nominees make up the selection panel for this year’s open platform aimed at final-year students and recent graduates from UK art schools.
As the Jerwood Open Forest competition moves to its next stage with an exhibition of five proposals opening in London, an additional £30,000 commission prize has been announced thanks to new support from Arts Council England.
This week, representatives from across the fields of labour, sociology, economy, law, and arts administration, come together in New York to write the policy for W.A.G.E. Certification.
Two things: One: Attended the first Songwriters’ Circle last night. Much of it went over my head. I have not had the tiniest bit of a musical education. The technical stuff went over my head by a mile. Dan was […]
We’re getting to the stage when the next issue is ready to go to print. We’re calling this issue ‘The Progression Issue’ and it has 16 pages. Both Sam (Graphic Designer) and myself have had a lot to deal with […]
Thinking/Writing/Thinking/Writing The past three weeks have been all about thinking and writing funding applications for the Manse Project 15. As I am due to have my baby any day now I have been trying to research and contact as many […]
I have a few images from the past week. Painting progress is slowing just now as I have a month until my dissertation is due in! I have chosen a subject close to my interests and so it is nourishing […]
On the 6th and 7th of November 2013, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds staged a conference entitled ‘Imaginary Exhibitions’. Considering my recent thoughts about objects and their relationships to museum contexts, the conference abstract seemed to address some of […]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=682737681760868&set=a.549192351782069.122521.284381244929849&type=1&theater My most recent painting completed in the studio. In it I have included images from ancient cave paintings as well as archaic symbols. This painting was a excercise in mark making. Following Jackson Pollock, I have used the canvas […]
<CP> Eddie surprised me this week, which is nothing new, except that this was quite a nice surprise for once. He’d secretly booked a day in the darkroom on his own to print some of our negatives, after which I […]
