Yesterday I actually managed to get out and do some work on an idea I have had for a while. It’s half term so I’m not tied to having to do everything during school hours and my son is happy […]
I have my first opportunity to bid for a paid commission! It’s a chance to install work in a large foyer at Canary Wharf. What can I make that drives my practice forward whilst also meeting the brief? I visit […]
It’s about managing expectations! and a tour inside ‘The Cooler’ My commissioner is again asking about the installment of the mosaics completed so far? My next client has programmed a large series of workshops for me very soon. And a […]
‘Distressed – I sit for a while with a fallen tree and keep her company’ part 5 Portsmouth October 30th The fifth of 5 ‘catching up’ posts documenting the conversation and encounters on the next stage of the ‘Konfirm’ journey […]
Currently listening to: Reith Lectires 2013: Playing to the Gallery by Grayson Perry. Lecture 2: Beating The Bounds Recorded at St George’s Hall, Liverpool. Broadcast 22/10/13, Radio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03dsk4d/The_Reith_Lectures_Grayson_Perry_Playing_to_the_Gallery_2013_Beating_the_Bounds/ The award-winning artist Grayson Perry asks whether it is really true that […]
I’ve been leading a double life for the past month as the Lincoln residency overlapped with my year long University of Nottingham residency. I can now confirm that I have moved into a studio in the old Dairy on Jubilee […]
Random poems..or maybe not so random, after 10 years of gathering and editing on and off to their completion.. they reflect the journeys I have taken so far.. http://www.cambriabooks.co.uk/memory-of-fire-poetry/ anyone interested in a copy can email me on [email protected] it’s […]
Well I am in- slightly complicated by the fact that the packaging company on the same floor had an articulated lorry full of boxes from China using the same lift…. Plans chest and my lovely old shelves all in and […]
I am artist in residence in the Fine Art department of the University of Nottingham for the academic year 2013-14. I have a studio on Jubilee Campus where I shall be available for the undergraduates in art who can visit […]
In his third Reith Lecture for BBC Radio 4, Grayson Perry discussed the art world’s obsession with novelty, and asked if art has lost its ability to shock.
The performance artist, curator and writer Ian White has died following a long illness.
Looking back looking back. I’ve been thinking about a video-installation I made 16 years ago, at college. I filmed myself sitting in front of a 1000 Watt lamp, for approx. 40 sec. (enough to lightly burn the skin on my […]
New Works: Consumed & Consumed #2 Consumed is a collection of found and recycled objects, gathered and stripped of any identifiable labelling. These consumerist objects are displayed within three large perspex cases. Underneath each of the vitrines, powerful light boxes […]
‘Distressed – I sit for a while with a fallen tree and keep her company’ Portsmouth October 29th I’ve not been able to put pen to paper (well type) for a few months now on either blog – an abundance […]
‘Distressed – I sit for a while with a fallen tree and keep her company’ part 2 Portsmouth October 29th The second of 5 ‘catching up’ posts documenting the conversation and encounters on the next stage of the ‘Konfirm’ journey […]
‘Distressed – I sit for a while with a fallen tree and keep her company’ part 3 Portsmouth October 29th The third of 5 ‘catching up’ posts documenting the conversation and encounters on the next stage of the ‘Konfirm’ journey […]
‘Distressed – I sit for a while with a fallen tree and keep her company’ part 4 Portsmouth October 29th The forth of 5 ‘catching up’ posts documenting the conversation and encounters on the next stage of the ‘Konfirm’ journey […]
This week’s must-see shows include a major solo show in Glasgow from 2009 Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer, a career-spanning retrospective of landscape painter William Tillyer in Middlesbrough, and Arte Povera pioneer Marisa Merz in London.
The 9th Battle of Ideas, initiated by The Institute of Ideas, saw a panel of critics and public art producers debate whether much of public art is actually an insult to the public.
Changing Priorities Yellow Wagtail and a Song Thrush done and Whitelands Farm is finished. I have other things to do now and the fourth mosaic will not be my next task. But I thought I would write a detailed description […]
