A couple of discoveries today: “Ways of Knowing” an experimental year long project “exploring the different registers, values and subjectivities of collaborative research” http://waysofknowingresearch.wordpress.com/ I found out about the project because I follow one of the participants, Sheffield University academic […]
Sporting League: Game 16. Runaway leaders Pointeso suffered their first defeat of the campaign with a three goals to two loss against plucky Red Star. Red Star boss: ‘There’s a lot of talent in our squad and we proved that […]
Friday Salon: Artists and Participatory Practices on 1st March 2013 in ICA, London Focusing on artists’ work who employ participatory strategies, this event will examine the challenges artists face in working within socially engaged art activities and the skills they […]
I study ‘Fine and Applied Arts’, at Canterbury Christ Church University. The course is highly Versatile and students can choose to work in a number of areas, incuding ceramics, sculpture, glass, etching…. www.clairesart.org.uk [email protected] Please find me on Facebook under […]
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
2 February – 17 April 2013
Its 11:30pm. I am writing at the end of a Friday. I have spent the day working on my PR. In this case it involved me visiting the Jobcentre to sign on because the money I allotted myself is not […]
ANTIBES PAINTING Recording the progress of my Antibes painting. It’s not doing what I want. My latest thought is to redraw the composition as portrait rather than landscape; to get the feeling that the studio is high up and the […]
It’s challenging working as a resident artist, that is, because the space you’re working in proffers an immediate audience. It’s challenging feeling you haven’t got enough actually done in a day, produced that is, when you know how important it […]
Hapy Chinese New Year everyone. It is Chinese New Year’s Eve and we are going to my parents’ for dinner. Looking forward to some yummy noodles. According to one source “The Snake symbolizes such character traits as intelligence, gracefulness and […]
Sporting League Game 15. Pointeso continued their crusade to Sporting domination with a straight forward goal to nil win over Delta. Pointeso boss: ‘We worked for our money today, and to be fair, I didn’t expect anything else against Delta. […]
I first initially began collecting my train tickets just as a habit throughout the summer as I was travelling backwards and forwards to work. I had no real plans to use these as work, however with the vast collection I […]
Mark Wallinger has unveiled a series of 270 works that will hang in each station of the London Underground.
Dalla Rosa Gallery, London
8 February – 2 March 2013
Hauser & Wirth, London
30 January – 13 April 2013
Another week has passed incredibly quickly. I have not really had time to think about everything (anything?) that happened, this and a conversation with a friend has made me realised that I am someone who needs time – something which […]
Week 20: 28th January – 3rd FebruaryThis week was all about intercultural exchange. I’d previously been on a training day about developing my international profile as a researcher (in Week 4) and from that, joined up to the White Rose […]
Had a chat with Sam Robinson about my work recently, which is always insightful. I often find that there are some niggling thoughts that I can never quite grasp, and then Sam sometimes realises this and voices those ideas, which […]
Hooray! it’s friday! As I’m finding with most things in my life – this is a double edged sword. GOOD I can lure my horrible children off the computer with the promise of TV (mean mummy that I am, I […]
I’d forgotten this bit of ritual… It must be about 10 years since I did any serious cross stitching. I never thought I would be doing it again, it had fallen out of favour. I had a period in my […]
‘The Processor’. New drawings of a machine that turns the corpses in to soap to fuel the ‘Soap factory’.
