Strange how this summer has zipped by, all sorts of things already forgotten because of the pace of our lives… Went on a very late holiday to Croatia, a beautiful and varied country of which we could only see a […]
Drawing in On Brown & Violet Grounds I showed drawings for the first time EVER in recent solo show On Brown & Violet Grounds. A lot of my drawings are now inspiring sculptural work… “Drawing in On Brown & Violet […]
After a visit to the Citizen’s Advice Bureau to try and get some help for a drop in income that amounts to £81 per week, and I wasn’t offered any viable support other than to give up self-employment, give up […]
Leaf Sewing: The Next Generation. The mess in my studio has reached critical mass, I can’t begin to describe the layers of…well mess. I start to sort it out, titivate around the edges, I put like with like and throw […]
This hasn’t ended up where I thought it would. But I think that’s good, and I think this is better. I thought that the final show would end up with more collaborative pieces, but I think, in the end, neither […]
This morning we were here to generate ideas. We focused on portraits of people who intimidate us in our neighbourhood, and thought about how we could make this project look as weird as possible. Our temporary home for our second […]
I’m getting close to the end of the residency and I’m preparing my talk and re-living it all and realising what a fantastic time I’ve had. It’s given me many new perspectives on life and ideas for making art. Getting […]
Holding Things In In thinking about the creative process described within the workshop a few weeks ago, I started to develop other trains of thought which might be linked to this. As mentioned, myths and stories can offer new perspectives […]
Having completed an exhibition for the ATS scheme in August, my current work is very much in the early stages. My current practice includes running a ceramic jewellery business in a 6×8 shed we inherited when we moved into our […]
part 1 From my mostly supine vantage point I have a rather limited view of the world, and although I try to throw lassos around things/themes/issues outside myself with my art I feel like I’m doing it while teetering on […]
part 2 In the mean-time I’ve finished three pieces. Will show you the one I’m most ambivalent about first, a strange unwieldy thing that I don’t much like the look and feel of. I call it ‘This is a room […]
Accidental collage The studio table has to be a mess. A real mess. There are accidents, waiting to happen. I was sat here for days this week, moving things around, too consciously. Trying to ‘make’ mages. It was torturous, ineffectual, […]
Wish I could have been in Altrincham this weekend, instead of being stuck in work. The Festival seems to have gone from strength to strength as more publicity is gathered. I was impressed the other day that they managed to […]
Serpentine Gallery, london
18 – 19 October 2013
Waste & Indeterminacy: A Curated Archive Organiser Josh Lepawsky: “In August 2013 the Canadian Association of Geographer’s held its annual meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Hosted by the Department of Geography at Memorial University, the conference provided an opportunity for […]
Eight days left. I’m up to my ears in frames, mountboard, bits of painted dowel waiting to dry, the iron is on and chuffing steam everywhere. There are a couple of pieces still to be finished. I am convinced one […]
Still Life. Whitelands Farm then…seems to be going so slow. Finished a mouse and struggled with the corn, kept changing my mind on how to make corn and in the end settled for each grain being made of four tiles […]
It has been 2 weeks since I returned from Iceland, and its unsatisfactory having my world turned upside down again. I didn’t appreciate enough how fantastic it is to be able to work full-time in a studio. . . So, […]
Perspective drawings i have been trying out. (Excuse the grubby finger prints!) Just experiments for now but can’t decide which i prefer – with or without the perspective lines?? If I’m honest, although I am enjoying freely experimenting with drawing […]
We’ve now all presented our responses to mapping the college. When I talked about mine – my moulded cups were fairly orderly arranged in lines on the wall of the studio. (A lot else has gone on in the past […]
The Social: Encountering Photography, a new festival for photography in Sunderland and north-east England, opens to the public today. We speak to the organisers, Carol McKay and Amanda Ritson about what’s in store, and offer a selection of some of the newly commissioned work.
