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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 […]

Initially the inside house table was to have a table top made from a large format print using motifs of domestic objects. However, the images them selves started to suggest a pattern, and even a repeat. This led us to […]

As the first week of the exhibition draws to a close, here is the final extract from Jack Welsh’s text for Portfolio NW. The full text is available to read in the Bluecoat and online shortly. Next week marks the […]

Practice & Persistence. Getting started has been a slow and painful process. That in itself I find sad. However, it does make the triumph of finally getting going all the more sweet. A blissful relief when the ideas start flowing […]

With the map out again, I was scouring the River Trent, Nottingham for a church with a spire. I find two, one in Sawley and the other in Attenborough. It looks impossible to photograph either church from the river without […]

Performing Paper #7 I took part in Performing Paper #7 at Paper Gallery, Manchester, 22 June – 3 August 2013. http://www.paper-gallery.co.uk/ HOARD:PAPER Alice Bradshaw collected every item of rubbish from her art practice during 2012 that would have otherwise been […]

Rejected Proposal I took part in Rejected Proposal at Contemporary Six in Manchester, 12 – 29 July 2013, curated by Contents May Vary co-director Richard Shields http://christbanksartcoffeetables.blogspot.co.uk/2… About the show: “Most of us have had a love of Art and […]

Canadian Association of Geographers AGM Special Session: Waste and Indeterminancy I have prepared a video presentation of a 20 minute paper to the Waste and Indeterminancy session at the CAG AGM in Newfoundland, Canada, 11-15 August 2013. http://www.cag-acg.ca/en/cag_annual_meeting.html In my […]

A pretty great week of research and meetings. Had a lovely afternoon on Wednesday with Bradford based ethnographer and writer Irna Qureshi, (http://www.theguardian.com/profile/irna-qureshi) a very interesting and generous person who is always happy to share information and conversation. Earlier in […]

POST #20: >>Terreneuvian (Stage 2)<< NOTES FROM DAY FIVE ON SITE: Totally lost inside the process. Impossible to see a way through. I end up writing prose… (pt 1) ‘Ten earths’ Three worlds. Three earths readily at my disposal and […]

POST #21: >> Cambrian Series 2 << DAY FIVE ON SITE: Totally lost inside the process. Impossible to see a way through. I end up writing prose… (pt 2) [First half of ‘Ten Earths’ prose in previous post] I guess […]