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 […]
There is a Chinese proverb which states: “The best memory is not so firm as faded ink” – this is something I will be exploring as I spend a month on a research and development residency in Shanghai courtesy of […]
Italy, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
ARTHOUSE1, Bermondsey London
8 – 30 November 2013
Private homes, Swale
4 December 2013 – 31 January 2014
FILM REVIEW GRAVITY, 2013, co-written, co-produced, directed, and co-edited by Alfonso Cuaron. ★★★★ out of ★★★★ An absolute masterpiece if there ever was one, Cuaron demonstrates why he is one of the most important directors alive today. A science-fiction film […]
Grayson and Dorothy. When this thing happened to me that I will tell you about shortly, I was in standing in a gallery filled with an installation by Dorothy Cross called Connemara at the Turner Contemporary in Margate. It is […]
Ok, keeping this brief for a change. In the picnic area of the Science Museum whilst my other half is being entertained by my child teaching him all about science in the Launch Pad. I’ve reached my limit in terms […]
