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There’s something so satisfying about finishing a larger piece, or, as in this case, a series of small pieces, and yet there remains a niggling notion that it all isn’t quite good enough. That’s par for the course for an […]

12/03/2012 On day two I decided to plan a timetable as Jane has been amazing in organising site visits and pencilling in times for me to visit the stores and collections at the gallery. Today Jane took me to look […]

Ecological debt I’ve been interviewing some of the people who are generously giving me ‘resident’ debt stories for the website (i.e. ones which will remain there as examples to stimulate ideas for potential contributors. They will also be the first […]

My research is materials driven, initially, usually. What do these thing say to me? Why do I select them? Will I use them whole? Deconstruct them? There’s always a moment of “will I regret taking it apart, ripping it, cutting […]

Travelling into the gallery on the train the other day I was listening to an interview on the radio regarding mothers and daughters and their comparative fashion choices. Though I might have expected to be told that daughters commonly rebel […]

Another very interesting discussion features on Creative Conversations 7. This week you will find me talking to Carolyn Black, freelance producer for ExLab. ExLab had seven quite major commissions shown across Dorset over the summer of 2012. It is also […]

I think the red against the plain wood works really well, I am interested in how the piece would work if I changed the way it is displayed… turned over, upside down etc… The second piece I posted doesn’t work […]

Well today has been a good day, spent the morning sketching and working out how to present the film in my baby walker. afternoon was spent playing with films projected on the wheelchair front and back, the surface works well […]

Progress and tomorrows trip. Another day, not much to be said. I have fashioned a new crucible, which is the perfect size for the furnace, and I have made some decent ingots. I’m getting ready for the sand casting, which […]

I spent yesterday afternoon at the Museum Resource Centre in Hitchin. Located along an industrial road, adjacent to the railway line, it wasn’t the most attractive of settings, but it did however prove very useful. Keith kindly presented me with […]

So there it is… the fundamental flaw with education today, beautifully illustrated in TES this week under the heading “The catastrophic impact of league tables for individual teachers”. http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6323230 For me it serves as a warning and a highlighter of […]

Been reflecting on my degree proposal and making connections with other artist researched for my dissertation. Its interesting the way Kabakov,Nelson and Schneider use the spaces for there work. But also been looking at Cornelia Parker and Damian Ortega for […]

Interview with Sophie Lamb So Sophie, can you please discuss the current processes you are using, what inspires you and what are the themes in your work? Umm..I’ve been doing a lot of printmaking and etching. I am looking at […]

Art Across The City 2013 takes place in Swansea, 28 March – 12 May, featuring new commissions from artists including Olaf Breuning, Sinta Tantra, Philip Cheater, David Long and Pete Fowler. Here, Philip Cheater talks about his commission, Land-Marked, situated […]