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After installing our lovely Domesticity show, and a week’s holiday in sunny southern England, I have been fighting my way through the email backlog. Now out the other side and getting excited about various projects in the planning stages. Working […]

Week 42: 1st – 7th JulyI’m coming to the end of the first academic year and, even though I’ll be continuing to work through the summer, my thoughts have already turned towards the end of September and the second year […]

It seems that in Taiwan it is most certainly good to be born in the 80’s. From my trip so far there has been artists ‘a plenty’ to get excited about, nearly all born in the generation most brits try […]

MAKE Liberating Multiverses A Preview of Christina Mitrentse’s MAKE – METALIBRARY interactive installation By Vassiliki Tzanakou curator/ writer London Strict geometrical and organisational rules imposed by a library space are infused with the multiversal philosophical practice of the multidisciplinary artist […]

In Conversation: Kim Walker and Bruce Gilchrist, London Fieldworks Reading and looking at your work I am left wondering, ontologically, how to think of it: Is it a physical object? Several objects? A class of objects? An abstract object? An […]

One my investigations of the To the Light show is to examine in a critical way how one can work and understand destructive acts creatively. In the sense of literally taking imagery of the riots and then to paint them […]

An ongoing project, running alongside my work as an artist is the refurbishing of our Victorian house. The plan had been for it to be finished within 5 years of us moving up here, but life got in the way […]

Shrinking Violet My impending move to a new studio has renewed my drive to push my various projects forward. I always have such a massive list of things to get done, besides the actual making of artwork, that the work […]

Today, I’m trying to build up some motivation to try to get back to work after a weekend off. Back to my own work that is, as I’m still on leave till Wednesday. Despite getting caught with gangs of drunken […]

BODIES (of work) ARE FUNNY THINGS Having a fractured ankle is forcing me to use muscles I must rarely use. It’s a daily workout physically and mentally, finding strategies for moving, carrying and achieving. And letting go of stuff I […]

For the second contribution to the Portfolio NW Artists talking blog, writer and artist Darren Murphy considers the attempt to create a critical framework around the exhibition: “An interest in dialogue is the main drive behind my work … the […]

Does going with the flow mean I have no agenda? It means I haven’t defined my agenda clearly enough to enable a clear way forward. Hence ‘Wood for Trees‘ piece… I have been working on another piece intially called ‘word […]