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The [OCCUPIED] event, which I was a part of, was a very enriching experience. We got ourselves into & out of many stubborn situations, things were on the verge of going wrong but we managed to pull through to make […]

Dealing with rejection I was at a gallery opening on Saturday night and friends kept coming up to me:“Where is your work? why isn’t it in?” And I had to confess:” I’ve been rejected.” Now if you are an artist […]

I have to admit this project has become a little slow after my dissertation, i have found that i have not been ccreating as quick as i thought i would. However I have still been painting, but I have continued […]

The Sinopticon talk with Stephanie and Eliza Gluckman went very well on Thursday night, despite the desperately cold temperatures. What a fascinating concept for a show and some very brilliant work too. However, I was on projector and powerpoint duty […]

Week 26: 11th – 17th MarchGiven that my interests have been focused on ritual and esoteric practices within art and theory, I have become increasingly aware of the use of alchemical symbolism as a methodology for interpreting art. Scholars such […]

Interview with Mariya Zherdeva Mariya, how are you helping with the organisation of the degree show? Well I’m on the publicity team, and we advertise our show as much as possible, we run a blog [here on a-n], twitter feed, […]

I have continued with old projects and slightly neglected my current project. I have decided form the beginning that i would focus on the fox as a subject as I felt it as an animal was quite symbolic of traditional […]

VIDEOS I’ve spent ages making videos. Am becoming addicted. Still can’t work out how to add a video to my blog…really annoying!!! REVISED PAINTING The painting here has been left for ages and then last week I suddenly felt I […]

Been looking through my notes and images when started dissertation, it’s interesting how each of the artist chosen approach their own work. Kabakov started life as an illustrator so some of his work has illustrative element, which l have included […]

Found these sketches l did for my time in Cyprus 2012 which illustrates the obstacles that l faced while away. Been looking back at the piece l mentioned about Ryan Gander with Adrian Searle for the Guardian in 2012, he […]

work has started kicking off with many different ideas in the early stages of being created, before talking about these, I will write about some past works which I had not posted on here before. I will talk about the […]

It was great that my friend Kate Pickering came up from London to see GRAIN on Saturday. We talked about the difference of performing yourself in your own work or asking someone else to do it; the option of maybe […]

At the start of my second year, a trip to London ended up in a group of us going on a ‘First Thursday’ in London. in one of the galleries. I saw works from what is now my favourite artist, […]

Mixing up Arts and Science in my Studio. Arts and science collaborations seem to be cropping up everywhere at the moment. After reading about the Broad Vision collaboration at Westminster University http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/19/art-students-find-beauty-in-science, it seemed appropriate to be heading to my […]

After looking at Sniks work in more detail, researching how he makes his work from layered stencils, I decided to attempt my own stencils onto canvas. In the past I had created a paper stencil and stencils for silkscreens with […]

I do try to keep this blog just about my art practice, and not about my teaching too much. Initially that was because I already knew myself as a teacher, but was trying to get to know myself as an […]

‘A series of events that have led you to feel like this’ Portsmouth 24th March Been so busy on this project this week – left to the last minute tidying day have to get the studio presentable for visitors – […]

The skin of normalness – pierced’ Portsmouth 24th March Wake at 4:22am – dreams remembered till 8:23 then forgotten Not a good night – party up the road with shouts in the street at unplanned for intervals – their patterns […]

It is freezing. Too cold to work in the studio so I am trying to get to grips with imovie for basic video editing. It seems to do the trick mostly. I’ve been trying to get up to speed with […]