A weekend festival of inspiring after-hours events in museums, galleries and heritage sites kicks off tonight around the UK, with leading visual artists playing a major part. We find out more from Culture24’s Nick Stockman.
I’m just past the halfway point of my residency and can’t believe how quickly it’s going, although in other ways I feel like I’ve been here for ages. My end of residency exhibition Lost in Translation, Navigating A World Without […]
The library of fearful pattern Portsmouth – Brighton – Portsmouth Patch worked Yellow Knife edge Strip Seen Less if I Sit Low in my seat and peer Over the window edge from my imposed ledge accessing that growing library of […]
I watched Casino Royale (James Bond) last night and while like most men I was wincing through the torture scene, it suddenly occurred to me that this torture was like my work. Little bit of background for those who haven’t […]
I’m in the process of redisigning my website, it looks really dated. I want to update it myself to have more control over it so I’ll leave the company that deals with it at the moment as they started charging […]
It’s a week into the degree show being open and the first chance to reflect on how it’s gone so far.. The private view on Friday was one of the busiest Oxford Brookes has ever seen, so it seems all […]
Been reflecting on previous sketch books and realise my degree show is a refined project for my first idea of chairs, had thought about putting 3 chairs together representing me at different ages, the films would have me age 8,teenage […]
Bamboo arrived yesterday … Business cards arrived today one week early and 2 weeks before degree show … exciting times
Logistics and assumptions. I started my ‘cheese dreams’ project and the time has gone rather fast, i set aside a couple of months to find 5 volunteers around the UK… i wanted to have a good ‘diverse’ group of people, […]
I tried out experimenting with my film projected onto different surfaces and sizes. At the moment there’s not really any space on my wall to try the projection really big on a white wall, so I will try that once […]
Whilst experimenting with projecting my film in my space, I decided to project onto my chair as well. I did the same experiment on my chair and bed sheet. Both show up really well and really clear due to the […]
Here are my two practice paintings in preparation for my next canvas. I prefer the design and colour-scheme of the second painting. I added the extra windows as an afterthought, after deciding that the window was one of the parts […]
For a change, instead of ranting about teaching in schools (I’ll leave that for next week, I’m teaching in Romford AND Clapham, ALL 5 days of the week….) I thought I would write about Artquest’s brilliantly organised conference “For the […]
What happened then, is that because I can’t touch the work to make it (well, sort of) I’ve ended up making work that can’t be touched. I am reaching the point where I am almost now able to sew again […]
VIDEO TECHNOLOGY Made a video clip of myself painting the other day. I thought I’d destroyed it by trying to put it on the computer – then woosh – up it popped again so here it is …. COMPLETE MUDDLE […]
