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I’m trying to get my work ready for The Beginning of History, an exceedingly slow and fraught process as it can’t be done lying down. Every activity is cut into countless infinitesimal = manageable segments, interspaced with longer and longer […]

– MN “As words rhyme, narratives and forms can rhyme in space and time.” Robert and I met last weekend to watch a screening of Jessica Warboys’ short films. Poetical performances, painterly theatrics, I’m particularly interested in the ways she […]

Our crowdfunding video is now live : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scibasecolonize/scibase-colonize?ref=search It has taken an enormous amount of work to do this and after the initial excitement of making the video and getting all of the rewards together, we now have that worry […]

This project has snowballed… in a good way. I received all but one of the diaries back in the post, ready to make work from them… I discovered so much about the volunteers via their dreams, yet the cheeses didn’t […]

As I thought about the time that lapsed between thinking about it and actually starting this blog I remembered school reports ” Joanna is a slow developer”. In terms of art practice it seems to me that speed is not […]

AFTER the first showing of cheese dreams, I started thinking of more ways to generate work from the dream diaries… I started thinking about creating larger graphs, sculptures from the dreams which featured common objects or themes. IT WAS HARD… […]

Day 6 – Burst Ah, Burst, the last painting I painted for the show. I always leave the pigments and resins soaking overnight to allow the colours to develop on the canvas. This means the results are unpredictable and sometimes […]

I was in the dentists 4 days ago and the dentist’s assistant said to me, ‘I hear you’re an artist?’ I smiled and said, ‘who told you that then’ she said, I have well informed sources!’ I said , ‘I’ve […]

Exhibition In a really interesting essay, Anna C. Cline states that “Exhibitions are essentially spaces of experience.” http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcont… They are also a space for experimenting, a way to connect with the audience, a validation of what you live and work […]

Tips to self about public speaking; make eye contact, introduce yourself and a bit of back ground. (If possible, offer cups of tea). Postcards from series Hunter/Gatherer will be exhibted as part of Grundys Collection show. Also, my Mums collection […]

Firstly I want to thank all of the lovely people who came to the launch of my show yesterday. Thanks! You made the evening very wonderful! And also a big thanks to gallery/ten for being such a great venue. My […]

(Summary of what I’ve recently been doing ) We mapped the college & I focussed on where people interact the most = the cafe… I observed and then honed in on the disposable cup and made it repeatedly to represent […]

No new work done yet but I continue sorting and throwing. This afternoon I was at college to hear sculptor Doug White talking about his practice. I have a passion for listening to artists talk about how they work. I […]

constant sleepless nights heart racing like a cat on edge/nervous the fear of the unknown ears pricked strange sounds disturbing shadows my imagination playing tricks on me barricading myself in planning my escape rountes my defence tools staying awake until […]