Notes on Spill Folk Academy, Day I+II (2/3) First Day: XI) Insituationalization of Live Art (What does that mean? What if you don’t follow the procedures? The traditional stages to get recognized and supported? Are we talking about the (heavy) […]
Notes on Spill Folk Academy, Day I+II (3/3) 2nd Day: I) A quick check of who’s in the room: Artists (Hands are Up), Venues (Hands are Up), Support Agencies (Hands are Up), Venues (Hands are Up), Festivals (Hands are Up), […]
Over the Easter holidays I created this painting, ‘Illusory Room’, which is a development of some drawings I did which in turn were composed of a mixture of different elements that I took from various paintings / prints that I […]
The live streaming is the first chance I have had to stand outside the performance and see it moving. Stills do not engender the same response in me. What did I see? The angle that we were forced to hold […]
I felt myself getting into a rut again with the stamped arrow drawings, but had a breakthrough on Wednesday this week. I’d always had in my mind that I could use this stamping process along with an animation process, so […]
Developed from my coloured drawings of the the staircase at the Swan at Lavenham, edited on photoshop, I decided to do this painting using that same method of first drawing out the different sections of the image, then simply filling […]
Through speaking and talking about my work a few people have said to me that my work is sexist I hadn’t really thought of it in this way. I’m just creating a personal response this got me thinking which, in […]
Final images of “The Throne” or “Leech”. These are to be the images that will be in the degree show catalogue. I like the starkness of the image, it looks so brutal with the relic of the phallus underneath it […]
My Studio I’ve arranged a date with my mentor this week for us to have the first of our sessions funded by the an Re:view bursary. Tuesday the 7th of May is the date for the two hour session for […]
Obviously with the making of penis comes the obvious jokes, homosexual quips etc. It seems that in modern society this is the done thing, to make penises mean you are obsessed with or must be gay and you’re futile efforts […]
These images show a chair currently under construction upon the theme of fetish. Taking Allen Jone’s furniture girls as a focus this chair will be gloss black, the seat will have a hole in it so the vice will protrude […]
To touch base between hospital appointments I went to APT-Gallery to see This ‘Me’ of Mine as soon as I was – temporarily at least – upright again, hoping I’d have enough steps in me. I absolutely needed to get […]
Yesterday felt like a very productive day in the studio, I was really getting into working with the materials and I felt that one of my older sculptures was a really good reference point for a new work.. I made […]
Hooray! I’ve found my mentor. I’m so pleased. After several weeks of discussing and pondering and researching it’s finally sorted. More news soon!
Dialogues with Maria Pattison (3) As i have been considering my role in relation the the Book of Debts (going live online and on the streets towards the end of next week) as servant, I was interested to hear Maria […]
Dialogues with Maria Pattison (4) On servant leadership (Part 2) A: So how does that work within the business model, the capitalist model…? M: Well, there is another interesting area of ethics around leadership, which is called leadership and self […]
Looking back at Martin Parr’s work and the way he documents things through photography, like his piece ‘Common Sense’, where he took photographs in the UK and abroad of scenes and items which related to the consumer culture. He then […]
I decided to carry on with the idea of creating a piece from my collections. I decided on this as I found from the umbrella and dress which I created, it worked really well and was an idea I wanted […]
I have began spray painting my toiletry bottles. Already they are looking a lot better I feel and am excited for them all to be done to experiment with the arrangement of them. I bought the spray paint and began […]
Have sent messages to some of the people I wanted to meet and talk about what I do. It was hard to work out how to phrase an invite, but felt a bit more confident mentioning it was part of […]
With high volumes of applications already in, a-n announces two new supporters of bursaries to artists in their area.
Contemporary Art Society and Whitechapel Gallery announce three curatorial fellowships as part of ACE-funded collaboration.
Manchester-based artist Maurice Carlin recently co-organised a public discussion on artist-led spaces during his current residency at HomeShop, Beijing. He reports on how it went and the issues and solutions that were raised.
