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Just getting packed up to start residency at Modern Art Oxford on Tuesday – even in the act of packing I get sidetracked by new combinations of objects – see photo. Just upturned the frilly papery thing I made the […]

How does the skin of ones own body taste

Bull Hotel, Bridport, meeting with Julie Penfold, curator, b-side. Really hot day, and a glorious journey through Devon to Dorset all along the A35. Country market towns and intense industrial agriculture with not a whiff of diversity, nor major or […]

Thinking very much this morning as I walked with Betty about power, access, hierarchies and ethics. I used my second and final Re:view meeting with artist and curator Caroline Hick last week, to talk through the family photography project in […]

Now I’m getting back into my stride – have been working on a new digital series, extending the residential research I did last year at Brisons Veor. Still thinking about micro-macro, and self-similarity, about the legacy of the Cornish mining […]

I’m looking forward to performing as part of The Harris Flights. However the £500 payment suggests a compromise – doing half the proposal. My initial proposal included funding for 100 hours at £10 per hour, a total of £1000. I […]

Nana’s anniversary yesterday. Jeanie Bennie Porter Thain: a strong, funny, loving, creative, determined, wise woman, a year gone. I still sorely miss her presence in the world and in my life – her letters, her stories, always surprising, making me […]

TO ARRIVE IS SUCH SWEET SORROW Walking across the tarmac to the easyjet experience, bound for Schiphol, I get a call. It’s Ashley from Hartlepool Council; “Radio Tees want to do an interview with you can you do it live […]

A bad day for future creative learning… as a‘new national curriculum is shared what is the future for the Arts, Design, Dance, Film? Well here’s what I think about the newly released national and particularly creative subjects curriculum served up […]

Another series finished. In terms of presentation/ documentation I rather like the black background. Came up with a little poem to go with the work, of nursery-rhyme simplicity and sting, tieing the pieces together in a different way: The soldier’s […]

There are always connections. It all comes from me, so there must be. Sometimes they are obvious to me. Sometimes not for ages, sometimes never… or at least, not yet. I have conversations with people… friends and family… and this […]

After the successes of the final year show and graduation, it has quickly become time to concentrate on the next projects on the horizon. After having been short-listed for The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize in January this year, […]

NEWS FROM THE BUDDIES Sadly, officially our Buddy Group has ended now – how quickly it seemed to go. Next week Buddy Leader Anne Barrell and I will be meeting to evaluate the scheme. The official six week period ended […]

While thinking about Emily Speed’s recent post, and understanding her frustration, I got to to thinking more about funding, and how it shapes the profile of contemporary art in Britain. ACE projects are required to attract new audiences, respond to […]

MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #23 Structtures and accountability “…One of the aims of a comprehensive arts policy might be to combat the growing compartmentalisation of the modern economic systems and to restore expressive freedom to the individual…”[1] As the case studies […]