Field of fragments Portsmouth April 15th Get to sleep at 3:47am Dream of Hominid evolution Wake at 4:55 am Exhausted this morning but raised Had a brief break from the project over the weekend – truthfully when does an artist […]
Multiple rites of passage – something we are good at in this country. Portsmouth April 17th Annoyingly the pattern fulfilled and awake 3:52am Avidly avoiding Wednesday’s monosubject words on radio to snooze untill 7:34 Sit Watch TV quiet streets and […]
Final week in Beijing Artist talk at Institute for Provocation Visit to the former artists village of Fuyuanmen Research into pre-print history of ‘Bei Ta’ I was invited to give a talk at the Institute for Provocation, a Beijing-based organisation […]
Since I last updated this blog, quite a lot has happened regarding the project. The sculpture itself has been finished during a painting marathon of 12 hours. Two coats of black gloss and two of grey and it now resembles […]
I had the pleasure of reading the first draft of Kenn Taylor’s text for the exhibition on Sunday. Kenn wrote the piece after accompanying McCoy Wynne (the partnership of Steve McCoy and Stephanie Wynne) on a visit to their next […]
The countdown to the degree show has began ….first day at university since easter, Ive been hiding away in the glazing room for most of the day, glazing the small army of pieces i created over the holidays. Some of […]
After beginning to play around with the arrangement of collections in my cabinet, I decided to start taking my collections out of their containers to see how they would work out of these barriers in the cabinet. I therefore spread […]
Post before this one, the last two images would not upload and im not too sure why at the moment, will post them up as soon as i can. This post will be discussing a doll which I have brought. […]
I am going to discuss an idea I had at the start of the year. After seeing the chapmans insult to injury collection. I had been inspired by the clown type faces they had added onto the people. I liked […]
During my dissertation and even now I have been looking at the chapman brothers. I have been interested in how they have taken works from goya and changed them in different ways. Insult to Injury is my favourite work from […]
My final post for tonight/morning will be about a canvas I had created using the image of the angel I had created and discussed a few posts ago. This canvas, about waist height I had started by thinking how I […]
It’s day two of my final degree project, provisionally titled 13.4.13 – 13.5.13. As I’ve been working through my degree, I’ve realised that in every project, I’ve set myself a task, a project within each module. I find it almost […]
Ways of working For the past week I have been juggling working in the shop, project applications, site visits, and sending out press releases. Due to this I have had to put on hold my Penny Arcade project. All the […]
Exhibition! The Serpentine Gallery’s Edgware Road Project presents RE:ASSEMBLY, an exhibition by sound art collective Ultra-red with students and teachers from The St. Marylebone Church of England School in London. Since 2009, Ultra-red have worked with students and teachers across […]
Play-Fight Symposium at SLG, London This afternoon symposium explores the social uses of conflict through looking at ‘play-fighting’ in various different forms; the ‘rough and tumble’ of children’s play, the role of conflict in socially-engaged art practices, as well as […]
At Whitechapel gallery Annette Krauss talks about unacknowledged forms of learning in schools. Krauss is the Gallery’s Artist in Residence at St Paul’s Way Trust School, Tower Hamlets and Cumberland School, Newham. http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/cat…
A series of conversations on curatorial and participatory practices with Felicity Allen, Editor of the Documents of Contemporary Art anthology: Education. Guest speakers address dynamic pressures within UK art institutions through the lens of activism, feminism and globalisation. This session […]
Intercourse is a project curated by Elbow Room, which investigates participatory practice. Intercourse was first presented at Experimentica 1.1 festival in Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in 2011. It was a pilot project, which aimed to explore public engagement, investigate human […]
Its been a lovely few weeks of but still did some work, just enough to keep things ticking along. Been thinking about the space and how l want to display the work so went back to my notes of dissertation, […]
Interview with my mum. I was trying to give people an insight to me growing up as a kid but failed miserably.
been thinking about one part of my installation and may try attaching the projector to a chair, maybe one from a hospital as l seem to use them more than most to put leg on which is the video piece. […]
https://soundcloud.com/kim-walker/gentler-passion Sound for Installation – Edit #1
Frances and I have finally been able to get to the Rodd to collect the wood we need for the construction of out installation. We met Roger, who taught us the basics of coppicing and a bit of the history […]
I have beeen looking at different ways which an audience can view works. This is because I wish for the degree show that the audience does not just walk into room and see art on the wall or little sculptures […]
From the clock post here are the other two pictures which have now been scaled down smaller so that I could upload them;