
Ex Terra
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After a momentary interval I find myself in an altogether different studio space in Elephant and Castle, London. Having arrived early on a Monday morning I struggle to negotiate my new set of keys and the myriad of padlocks, doors […]
Gallery Representation I don’t deny it – I would love gallery representation. The right gallery of course. In true lonely hearts column style the list of qualities I look for in a gallery partnership are as follows: 1. A gallery […]
Lots of help and questioning authorship. Installation is in full swing. But it feels a bit different to my normal installations. I’m a hands on person, I’ve lots of experience of installing exhibitions, I’ve ‘tech’ed’ in the past for a […]
Hello everyone… its nice to be back to blogging with you all. I haven’t been blogging for over a year now. I had blogged about Being Part of Something, which started out as a journey from joining an artist studio, […]
To the Light Exhibition started with the idea of responding to powerful incidents, events, specifically, the riots of 2011. The staggering images full of violence and devastation. We have not been able to rationalise that which was so irrational in […]
Post #6 {Paleoarchean} Selection of initial notes working towards a re-appraisal of James Hutton’s ‘Theory of the Earth’ (1788) PART 3.: > Extrapolation > preeminance > WE have but to open our eyes to be convinced of this truth > […]
Tino Sehgal, the 2013 Turner Prize nominee, lights up this year’s Manchester international Festival with a riveting and joyous sound piece, writes Bob Dickinson.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
A residency in a disused chocolate factory in Derby by artists Ivan Smith and Nick Hersey is addressing the need for ‘dirty studio spaces’ in the city. S Mark Gubb reports.
Willemijn Zandt explores the quest to achieve equality between the sexes by looking at the visual art market.
I went to Nottingham over a week ago to speak to someone from the Arts Council about making a grant application for my current project, The Outer Trial Bank. Rather ironic that the discussion of how the arts council need […]
Post #5 {Eoarchean} Selection of initial notes working towards a re-appraisal of James Hutton’s ‘Theory of the Earth’ (1788) PART 2.: > Opposite of consolidating > water moving rock > hee hee > lastly they will return to their fluidity […]
Went to an interesting conference at Christchurch University Canterbury on Wednesday. Joanna spoke and I pressed the buttons for the images. Then on Saturday it was my turn to speak to a smaller audience – local councillors. DAD had been […]
Foremark in Derbyshire was farm land in Jockey Hill’s day. It was flooded in the 1970s becoming a reservoir supplying the people of Leicester. At first sight it appears that one beauty spot has been replaced with another. I’ve never […]
THE TIDE IS HIGH Day four of the installation of my installation and we are on schedule. I have a seven metre line of photos to go on the wall butted up to each other and I am glad of […]
Printmaking and drawing developments reveal some consistency. The second printmaking piece Tracing the Everyday confirms a certain disquiet as the everyday is traced in the process of printing, and the colour register along with the cut-in image take our associations […]
If the artist can’t get to a studio… …the studio must come to the artist. It’s been a little over a year since that fateful week in May 2012 when my degree show coincided with the birth of my first […]
The perils of the opens Tomorrow, I will go to pick up my reject from The Jerwood Drawing Prize. The odds against getting accepted were pretty high, so it wasn’t too much of a blow, but I was completely taken […]
To the Light Exhibition was my Solo show at Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham in 2014 that takes as its starting point, the powerful depictions of the destruction of the 2011. Riots which spread from London to Manchester and moves […]
I called this blog asking for help, and boy has that been true this week. To run the interactive work at the exhibition at the Bluecoat I need a Mac. The Bluecoat don’t have a Mac, looked into getting one […]