Made a lovely discovery yesterday.Finally decided to stop my car and check out a site that I’ve passed a million times before. I could see from the road that it had been a quarry and fully expected it to be […]
Smooth Space has met with project partners – Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust – to firm up host sites for a 3-year rolling programme of projects across the Bay. We are now scheduled to make a presentation to English Riviera […]
Have travelled to Bristol Temple Meads station and am sitting in the glorious Cafe-Bar with Carol Carey, Development and Project Manager with Somerset Art Works. We had a long phone call back in April, plus, for this meeting Carol had […]
Presentation to Geopark partners; TCCT; and Torbay Council – who we are, what we are proposing, what are our core values/why? We cite ‘over the horizon’ (2012) as our pilot project to communicate our core values – we are committed […]
Digesting thoughts about meeting with Carol, Geopark presentation and meeting in a couple of days with Claire Doherty from Situations. Still spinning from Re:view bursary activity finally beginning – ie meeting Carol Carey – and our presentation to the Geopark […]
Part 4… When we got off the plane, we went in search of the bus in to Venice and quickly found ourselves in the queue and in conversation with Mark Wallinger (it’s the post-flight smokers bond, Candice later informed me). […]
Part 3… I headed straight for the queue through to departures. It was quite busy and the line snaked back and forth on itself five or six times. It was on my second snake that I spotted Candice joining the […]
Part 2… This was a genuine question – I know a lot of people in Nottingham and figured there was a good chance someone would be. It would be nice to meet up and share the journey, maybe even a […]
Part 1… Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to attend the launch of the 55th Venice Biennale. This was made possible by a Go and See Bursary from a-n, which is why I’m posting this blog; part of the […]
I’m currently sat invigilating the second last day of the show. It’s been such an experience since the preview evening and it has been incredibly rewarding seeing my work being judged and critiqued by the public. The actual night of […]
Have returned – my hopes realised, in part. The quarry is indeed rubbish strewn – but it must have a history, and that’s what I’ll search for over the next few days. Meanwhile some pics: I fought through chin high […]
What is your proposed artistic activity, and what do you want to achieve by doing it? (500 words) This morning, trying to start filling in an R and D application for Grants for The Arts, and feeling confused and overwhelmed […]
Touch without wanting to take
Reading Ruth Geldard’s recent blog post made me think what an amazing space Artists Talking is: a space for reflection that allows the space between the public and private to be safely inhabited and shared. I am getting ready to […]
It was the last day of the undergraduate degree show at Plymouth University today, which can only mean ours is getting closer now! The BA students are now expected to take their work away by the weekend and we then […]
A one-off blog in response to my time at the Venice Biennale launch. I’m going to have to post it in four bits, so read post 4 first. You’ll see what I mean…
As part of a package of savings totally £11.5bn, the Chancellor George Osborne has announced further cuts to arts funding in the spending review for 2015-16.
Sifting through old diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, scraps of paper I realise these thoughts might have some coherence alongside my ongoing collection of photos of things that aren’t really there.
Woke up this morning to find that FFF is 25% funded on Kickstarter! I’m a quater of the way there! 18 days to go and I am thinking about new ways to approach people to remind them about my project. […]
During the Trelex Residency I have balanced ideas about ‘live’ and ephemeral with 2 works. One work is some water taken from the lake which has been evaporating over time. (I originally took this water from Geneva Lake after realsing […]
Words ahead of a live work at Trelex Residency. Grip a Hold (workign title). Is a piece with a fantastic sprawl of scrap metal I found on the side of a footbath in a big cage bin. This metal is […]
The meeting with Citizen’s Advice gave me a projected income on Universal Credit that will be £40 less per week. This could be partly because by then my eldest son will be 18, so some financial support I get for […]
