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‘We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world’ Patti Smith, ‘Just Kids’ “I want to work under the table” announced L, who looks like she might be my collaborator. She sat […]

Does the idea that the best way to succeed in the creative industries is to comply with the notion that you have to have been to university and follow a particular path really work? In my view it has more […]

The real stitching is well underway now. I have plotted and planned the sweep of them, marked them with pins, adjusted a few, then stitched their stalks… one long simple stitch, to mark place and direction. Now the thinking has […]

Already 2014 is a bit of a blur… I was off New Years day, but have worked since ( I’m on my break now) In the last few days though, I have contacted the 36 artists who will be now […]

Currently Reading: Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon (eds.). 2009. Phaidon, London. This survey of contemporary sculpture conducted in 2009 spotlights 119 prominent cross-generational artists from 27 countries, introduced by Anne Ellegood. The criteria for inclusion to […]

Currently Reading: Vitamin 3-D: new Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Ellegood, Anne. 2009. Phaidon, London. … continued The book itself, it’s worth mentioning, is a huge mid-green tome with a wedge of cover front and back held together with a […]

Land Strategies and theCommons January 6th to February 21st. Harrington Mill Studios residency The aim of this residency is to create a discourse between all the elements of the residency/exhibition space exploring the genius loci and the intersections of space, […]

Week 57: 14th – 20th OctoberI’ve been experimenting with more printmaking techniques to increase the repertoire of styles at my disposal and to see if more experimental processes can help me to generate new content within my work. Collograph workshopI’d […]

In a previous blog post I mentioned two areas of my work which were just beginning to unfold. The AA2A project, http://aa2a.biz/pg/profile/southampton based at Solent University took off to a slow start due to previous commitments and school holidays which […]

what do i want ? a question i circularly bounce off of. it’s been the question that i’ve been wrestling with in respect to what i propose for the first application. from a session this morning i’ve been able to […]

I stopped writing this blog some six months ago with the intention of freeing up some time for a big ‘sort out’ in my studio. Up until this point, I’d been having conversations with other artists about the importance of […]