Highligthed in an email by Andrew Martyn Sugars, I find myself returning to worries about confidentiality and safeguarding the thoughts and opinions of myself, others on my course and those I work with in a clinical capacity through my placement. […]
LONDON Thursday After 1st session with our technician, began to edit and join my video clips. Found I could actually do it !!! massive technology confidence boost!! Also got an Apple iphone which is beautiful. Am I becoming a technology […]
Photographing the Books *warning – contains profanity* For the last two days we have had photographer Professor David Knight in to photograph the re-made books for the BOOK we are writing about the project, which is sponsored by Sheaffer pens, […]
‘Warning this appliance must be earthed’ Portsmouth: 14th March Awake at 4am Dreams different slightly twisted rather than overt making me Feel slightly corner turned E M D R delving digging deeper found far away moments receding with a mere […]
Day Three consisted of an early morning visit to the geology collection with Christopher Broughton, who is also known as Dr Fossil. I was excited about seeing the collection, as I don’t really know anything about geology apart from watching […]
To gain a better art work life balance it might be worth considering Scrooge, the past, present and future. With the snow this week I began thinking about Scrooge, and the visitations of the three ghosts and how they helped […]
we’ve reached the end of the call out period. i feel nervous and scared about the next phase. i don’t know why. i have to wait to speak to the rest of the team. i’m aware i’m sharing my angst.
Yesterday I had seven visitors and that was refreshing. I did thirty two grains and that’s partly because i carved during the ‘In Progress Event’ while I was talking to people. The event was ecnouraging with several interesting conversations and […]
On the way to the Grain Warehouse this moring I picked up the Sheffield Telegraph and there was the article about GRAIN. It’s very positive what Ian Soutar has written there. This morning I had four visitors and I’ve got […]
Chat with video artist Emily Richardson. I found our tutorial really engaging and worthwhile, it was refreshing to talk to someone who has no idea who you are and can only go by what you show them. This made me […]
My piece for the Interim exhibition (last week) was a culmination of one of those wonderful ideas which jumps into your mind a few days before certain deadlines. This is meaningless has strengthened my ideas of my practice, taking myself […]
The Sporting League: Game 33 Pointeso made easy work of their match against with a three goals to nil home win over deflated Pacifica as they enter the last five games of the season. Pointeso gaffer: ‘We’ve got ourselves a […]
A key starting point in my investigation of the male subconscious was as I’ve stated were the theories of Freud and Mulvey. In particular Freud’s, ‘The Medusa’s Head’ “To decapitate equals to castrate. The terror of the Medusa is thus […]
Freud’s essay on the Medusa’s Head particularly the virgin Athene wearing it on her armor as a warning set me thinking about direct castration through the vagina itself or Vagina Dentata – toothed vagina in Latin, is a folklore tale […]
While researching Art work, revolving around the vagina Dentata myth I was shown Fee for Service by Jess Dobkin. This is a performance piece, where the artist has inserted an electric pencil sharpener into her vagina. She then invites people […]
From my reading up of the vagina Dentata myth I felt the need to interpret it in a way that I felt to be true and address my fear of women. When I think of women and relationships I associate […]
Following my recent post that featured Laura Mulvey’s take on Allen Jones’s work. I wanted to look at and discuss pieces of his work in relation to my work. Allen Jones’s work revolves almost completely around the fetish and a […]
This post just show compositions and the playing around with mounting and the potential positioning of the animal traps in the compostion. These are a very loose base as it will inevitably fall to balance and the eye as to […]
Affixed the mole and gin trap and mole tarp to two chairs I cannibalized. I’ve grown to call these the missionary pair (for obvious reasons). However I wish I hadn’t of rushed in an affixed these two as I’m not […]
Upon a chat with a colleague about the underlying message of women snaring unsuspecting men the idea of sirens came up. Siren’s in greek mythology were dangerous and beautiful women whom lured hapless sailors to their death on the rocks […]
Started on a new sculpture today this going upon the theme of gold digger, holding a certain resonance with me personally. This sculpture consists of a vice painted in high gloss gold on a thrown like chair using equally plush […]
UK’s Tacita Dean, Helen Marten, Roger Hiorns and Cathy Wilkes amongst artists selected for 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice.
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and Christina Mackie won the Contemporary Art Society’s annual Commission to Collect award in 2011, and an exhibition of the work has just opened. We talk to the artist about the process of making a piece for the museum’s permanent collection.
