I have spend some time working on the base for my chess pieces, as chess is often used to represent the game of life, and falls into my remit of power, manipulation and powerlessness. I still have to make my […]
I’ve started making experimental pieces with dead foliage, continuing my interest in beauty, often missed that is all around us. And what I find fascinating is how easy you can fall into the trap of the ‘known’ even return to […]
@nsartist34 has invited me to perform at Paper gallery.
Spring Summer Winter – left poem fragments Cambridge April 10th 2013 Spring Frantic whisper recalls sleep flooded dream shadow symphony from essential rock cry my beauty above language Summer finger swim delirious garden a thousand mothers watch through their languid […]
TRADING STATION issue 4 is published! It’s been the longest gap between publications in the series (Issues 1-3 were published in May, September and November 2012), but we decided in January that we would purposefully leave a longer gap between […]
Ten days since I wrote to the Church people with the list of things we have to do, and still no reply. I’m thinking perhaps: a) they are the type of people who don’t feel the need to acknowledge an […]
With my collections now being personal to myself I began to think of what other items could I collect. I began to think of my daily routine and what I could collect actually from myself similar to my make-up wipes. […]
April 11th 2013 Back at the blog after a long break, but having a good week. Just closed a really stunning show by North Wales-based artist Derek Couturier. Included abstract paintings, drawings and prints with a political / social commentary […]
Going on the theme of collecting items related to me, I decided to also collect my eyelashes. I feel it relates to the idea of me collecting my hair as it is very similar with the close contact with the […]
I am not sure why I hadn’t thought of this idea earlier but as well as collecting contact lens cases I have began collecting my actual contacts. I decided on this as it is perhaps even more personal than the […]
I decided to explore my collections with display. I have found that using my wipes to make things has worked quite well so far, so decided I would try covering my wipes on an object in the studio. I decided […]
Some of the recent drawings of different views of my days…
Stock taking is in the air. It became inevitable when I decided to take part in an open studio event for the first time since 1999. It continued with a visit to the small (though not as small as it […]
Sometimes it’s good to be an outsider, on the outside looking in can inspire some great work. Working here in France as an outsider has pushed my work in directions not possible had I remained in the UK. People telling […]
SWIM-VIDEO Have had several attempts to edit the footage we made. It turned out to be too much like a holiday video so must make it more relevant to my Degree… Went back to the previous idea of using video […]
I have another exhibition opportunity coming up on Monday. It is set up by the Offquay collective – a group consisting mostly of recent Northumbria graduates – and is in celebration of their newly opening studio and project space (www.offquayarthouse.co.uk). […]
A longer introduction . . . Blogging I return to a-n blogging after a gap of quite a few years having drifted away onto Blogspot for sharing my creative project information with others. Now, on reflection, there is something critical […]
Vulgar Errors residency in progress My starting point for the residency at the Queen of Hungary project space (where I will be resident for a week in May) is to read Thomas Browne’s book ‘Pseudodoxia Epidemica’ or ‘Vulgar Errors’ alongside […]
I hate when you have written loads and you were happy about it and for some reason it didn’t save. : ( Quickly going to resume my day so I don’t get behind on this again. It has been a […]
Notes On Spill Folk Academy, Day I + II (1/3) First Day: I) Moaning – or Morning? – Session: Get it out of your chest & let’s be done with it! (Did we succeed in doing it? Was the moaning […]
Arts producing agency Forma is celebrating a decade of working with leading artists by reappraising previous projects and announcing a raft of new ones. We speak to founder David Metcalfe and artists Matt Stokes and Graham Dolphin about the past, the future and the role of the producer.
The Assembly Rooms Gallery, London
14 March – 26 April 2013
Impressions of China 2 Now that I’ve been is China for nearly three weeks I have a good idea of what Hangzhou is like and on the whole the main impression is the size. Everything is on a massive scale, […]
