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Questions for artists As a prelude to writing up some more reflective notes from my meetings with Emma Smith and Erica Scourti. Here are some of the questions that I asked them. It makes apparent some of the things I […]

I like my blog. I can write how I speak. I can prattle on a bit, go down cul-de-sacs, take a tangent or two, and meander slowly back to where I started…. Or not! It’s when it comes to “Important […]

Ah! a sigh of relief as term time begins again. Hello brain! You’ve been gone so long – good to have you back. With my consciousness in PARK it is a small miracle that things SEEM to be falling into […]

Things are back on track with The Altrincham Arts Festival after they had a meeting this week. The website has been updated, artists announced and their tweets are telling me that there are a lot of musicians and other performers […]

It had the potential to unfold badly. I have’nt and wont be continuing with this blog for the foreseeable: Thats because I cant go there anymore! Lets say then this blog is officialy dormant. No doubt things are happening there […]

I was away for six weeks over the summer and now it is bliss to be back in the studio. My new website is done now. Meetings for the MA interim exhibition at CADS (Contemporary Arts Development Space) with Katya […]

Thankfully, I’ve started to pick myself up this week. No, I didn’t get the jobs I applied for. But they were evening jobs, so not ideal anyway with a 14 year old with various homework demands. How has it come […]

Well, off to Berlin again next week. This is to discuss proposals for the Pavilion at Milchhof. I have set all dolls aside for the last few weeks, working on ideas for the exhibition. It has been a real pleasure […]

This must be the centre of Radbourne because the sign says ‘Church’. We drive down a narrow lane and it seems like straight into someone’s garden. We turn around and try again on foot . This time we find a […]

Exercises in style Matthew Hearn asked me ‘why did you use that/those fonts?’ My answer would vary from project to project – I don’t know/I had to choose something/ it looked right/ I was mimicking the look of something else/ […]

I’ll be performing The Customer Is Always Wrong in a month’s time in Switzerland for the Perform Now Festival on 3rd October. http://www.perform-now.ch It has been a while since I’ve looked at it so I’ll have a chance to see […]

NEGOTIATING SYSTEMS As an aside to making connections and traversing cracks, I am reading Foundations by The Free University of Liverpool: the bit about negotiating systems, making them visible and accountable in a fair and clear manner. My own words […]

Experiments and the Cost of Failure One of the most important things to me is my ability to use art as a vehicle for playing with new materials and processes with the goal of creating original artworks. Often there are […]