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I’ve been painting this summer, slow progress, and frustrating, but I like its unpredictability. I began this work, but it soon went through many changes,

Then I got to the stage where I felt frustrated and out of control… that’s when I stop. Quite a while later I took a look – I had an idea. Did it. Is it finished? Who knows. It makes […]

Week 51: 2nd – 8th SeptemberAfter the previous week thinking about tasseography and drawing in tea leaves, I finally felt that I was on the way to developing a body of work. As I’d spent most of the first year […]

Shared Space: That’s what this project started as…… ‘Shared Space’…. is a zone where cars, buses, people, bikes, vans and skateboards even, are all equal. I was so excited and thought what a fantastic progressive thing to have on your […]

– MN “The aviary looks almost weightless – like a bird. A giant net skin is wrapped around a skeleton of poles – paired diagonal legs at either end, each lined to a three-sided pyramid or tetrahedron – which is […]

Querida Vasconcelos, te admiro. (Dear Vasconcelos, I admire you) Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese artist. She was born in Paris in 1971 and now lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Much of Vasconcelos’ work deals with feminism, as well as […]

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/837387/joa… In your current exhibition at Haunch of Venison, you are showing “Full Steam Ahead (Red#1)” (all works 2012), a kinetic, flower-shaped sculpture composed of working steam irons. Could you tell me about this more mechanical strand of your practice? […]

The clock is ticking for our ‘Friends of Studio’ event where I was really hoping to show my work so far… of course there s a bit to be done to make it worth looking at and life has typically […]

THINGS THAT ARE ON MY MIND 1. Rudolph Steiner’s “blackboard” drawings which I saw at the Venice Biennale last week which are actually not blackboards, but are in fact chalk on black paper which his assistant used to cover his […]

Wow, I love Vasconcelos and I love the sound of her name and where she lives and her trajectory as an international artist. From the interview I posted earlier I will get something that is very interesting/important to me at […]

The lampshades have now turned into something else… a ladyboy? There is something about this work that is quite disturbing and vulnerable, quite exposed, like being naked. It shocks me, it does grab me and it does make myself wonder […]

Right. I have been considering carefully why I have been moulding these cups out of newspaper – rather than, say ( as course leader Alli Neal asked) out of the disposable cups i ‘m moulding on? Well – I went […]