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Pantomime For the next few weeks I am very busy: How on earth am I going to describe this: A ‘Theatre Outreach’ project? A series of temporary installations An art trail…(that can’t be quite right) It reminds me of a […]

I visited Fokestone on Saturday: the town is like the curate’s egg but the harbour and beach are great, and, bathed in that early-lowering autumn sun, were even beautiful. There’s a word I like. Best of all I came home […]

It seems a long time since that holiday in Croatia: I’ve settled in to a routine in my studio, but will probably have to move into the house for the winter. That will be a challenge – I’ll probably find […]

– RW On crystals and post #2 “an infinite pyramid with a mirrored interior and a granite exterior” Robert Smithson, ‎Jack D. Flam (1996) ‎Ultramoderne, Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings. Reading the essay Michaela gave me by Rosemarie Haag Bletter […]

Covent Garden Reworking this painting. Holding my breath. Edging closer. Hard to know when to stop. Reworking the one about Afghan soldiers returning to Britain – hospital in Birmingham. A traumatic day in so many ways butthink I’m beginning to […]

I have spent the last few weeks preparing another installation-based proposal involving the use of scaffolding. Pulling together these worked-up proposals has been an interesting and valuable exercise to determine the next step forward. However, it’s also somewhat problematic and […]

This seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit …apoplogies all. The usual autumnal bug that makes you feel rubbish and puts a stop to all the things you wanted to do. In my case hearing Tom Hackney talk […]

Week 54: 23rd – 29th SeptemberAlthough I’m very much a maker of objects, I’m also interested in the relationship between the online and offline, particularly since my transfer meeting and the discussion about Digital Humanities in relation to my topic […]

I started working with text last year coming with a background of site-specific interventions, performative sculptures and installations. It is a way of opening my practice beyond the physical object (for example my sculptures) or immediate physical response to a […]

Well, I got to hear the student proposals this morning. Ling Min and the Dean have arranged for the students to create temporary public artworks for the Water Town area of the city. The students are in their fourth and […]

“… pine woods have a strange habit of wandering…” I love that sentence Sara Maitland’s “Gossip from the Forest”. Her explanation is that you cannot coppice or pollard Scots pines. Cut they are killed, they will not regenerate on their […]

I found these coloured squares distracting to the image at first and now I like them.

Day 13 – Chroma 2 These pigments spread across the tile richly, like an oil slick on water. They looked black and unexciting to the eye until they were allowed to spread. I love this surprise element of making art. […]

Day 14 – Chroma 3 Following on from yesterday’s post about my experience with experiments, Chroma 3 shows some tiles that are slightly unusual. The glaze cracked in a crystalline pattern as I poured the resin; initially I felt this […]

Day 15 – Floribunda No 2 Lovely installation shots of my work at gallery/ten Cardiff. A beautiful, new contemporary gallery in the city centre- just perfect! http://www.gallery-ten.co.uk/#/

While talking to Matthew Day I’ve found he’s interested in the form of the mobius strip and so I ‘ve decided to use that as a form to play with by combining it with my cup moulds. I wanted the […]

I wish I could scream & shout… Tonight’s rehearsal is somehow quite revelatory. This piece won’t be easy to make. I started properly to work on it last week, juggling with thoughts about its central theme, talking to friends about […]

Ambivalence is central to my relationship with this Art stuff. These things began with a burst of enthusiasm in the physical energy of stretching, priming, putting them together, and pleasure in anticipation of what they might become. In the doing, […]

My first full day in Shanghai and what a day it was… I will be staying in a few different places during my month here, but for now I am based at the University campus, which is huge and currently […]

I know I said I was going to do teachery things for a while, that the artist would have to wait till December to be allowed to roam free, but an unexpected bonus has cropped up. In the middle of […]

The Pointeso Art Scene. Traznec Gallery Musings. A couple of critical contemporary hipsterites ruminating outside the up and coming Traznec Gallery. Artist 1: ‘Man…that Mazy Colice show is amazing.’ Artist 2: ‘Yeah…I’m interested because it’s rigourously critical.The buzz around works […]

I’m back! well that was a while out of circulation, too many funerals and not enough fun, but enough of that. The phrase ‘you couldn’t write it’ comes to mind, perhaps a good title for some work based on incredulous […]

<CP> I worked in my studio yesterday preparing some of the drawn surfaces that Eddie and I will use in the photography studio next week. The drawings comprise dense layers of graphite, systematically applied to a paper support, which are […]

THINKING WITH CHALK, PHOTOGRAPHING MOON ROCK AND MAKING A SHOPPING LIST I’ve been using chalk and the blackboard painted paper to think about how to create a new experimental environment for the growing stones. I’d forgotten how liberating it is […]