I had another art-visit! Ben Cove came – the artist whose piece Trans impressed me at last year’s ZAP Open (see post # 36). As it happens our work crossed paths/shared a wall at Peering Sideways – Welcome to the […]
…continued… I would be lying if I said everything ran smoothly. There were some interesting lessons to be learnt and a few minor teething problems lets say… but these are issues that I will attribute to the learning curve and […]
‘Not naturally present’ Portsmouth: February 4th. Wake 3.15am with terrified start 3:59am as cat ill down the stairs. no sleep since Over a week since the last post – time has seen me swim through some dark places before coming […]
I’m sad to say it’s all over. I’ve had a definite ‘back to reality’ feeling this morning as I’ve waded through emails and tried to catch up with the things I’ve had to sideline to focus on the residency. The […]
This last week has been very much about coming out of the comfort zone of my own thinking (or co-thinking/ planning with Andrew, the producer) and expanding into the next phase. This has meant a series of meetings, some intense […]
Accidental constellationism Portsmouth: February 4th Today I split and spilt salt on the table top watching constellations form stars born Cassiopeia follows the great bear resolving one grain at a time
Whist Elena has been taking chunks out of my pieces, I have selected to sample just one of her disembroidered pieces over the course of this past week. I’m not really sure what I’m looking for in the work yet […]
So it all got a bit more complicated than just splitting the project into two parts. And then that complication inevitably left me slightly if not lost then at least bemused about how I could approach clarifying the links. So […]
The ‘Masking Arm’. Today I have created the ‘Masking arm’, which is the device that attaches the soap masks to the subject’s face, I wanted the piece to be big, to intimidate the viewer that stood underneath of it, which […]
I’ve been reflecting on the stimulating conversations I had around the subject of value and worth and barter and exchange in the build up to Christmas. Firstly, with artist/blogger Jean McKewan for her ‘Reciprocity’ zine and then, for an interview […]
With less than 14 weeks left on the calendar until final submissions for degree show, I´ll use this space to chart my progress. Having spent the first semester writing a dissertation and playing about with some installation, it is time […]
Just how am I supposed to fit in Networking – the ‘essential’ part of any artists life? Out of the 31 days of January, I had 8 days off from my Job – most of which were not two days […]
Museum of Contemporary Rubbish has been shortlisted for the inaugural Vantage Art Prize. Vantage Art Prize21 February 2013Ellington House, Leeds Valley Park, Leeds, LS2 7DJ 45 artists make up the shortlist exhibition which will be held for one evening only […]
Sock B had a long Christmas holiday in Oxfordshire, and was clearly very busy with sockateer CW! B(9) now weighs a whopping 37g 91g including all packaging. I did laugh when I saw it… I thought sockateer CW was a […]
Inventory I have been thinking recently about the inventory of symbols which I have slowly been amassing. This has happened almost without me noticing, but I now have the beginnings of a rich collection. I find myself reusing symbols to […]
In the beginning there were broken dreams of animation and Pablo Picasso. In October 2008 I embarked – somewhat vainly – upon a Masters in Animation, having had no formal knowledge on the subject and no real desire to learn […]
A journey to discover the possibilities of food without the need to actually eat anything.
Still pretty much immobilised but have succumbed to the offer of a stick to help me get around. I was absolutely determined not to let this stupid knee of mine keep me housebound so I have managed to get out […]
Been preparing my next Creative Conversations with the artist Mark Dunhill during his exhibition ‘Stone Appreciation 2’ at the Drill Hall. ‘Stone Appreciation 2’ was the first exhibition I saw at the Drill Hall, and caught me by surprise. I […]
In the studio making ‘soap masks’. I have started to make more ‘soap masks’ today as I am going to be making the ‘masking arm’ from the ‘soap factory’, also I have made a latex skull which then will be […]
SSW Winter Residency Days 1 and 2 My first few days at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop are at an end and it was a great few days. There are four artists (including myself) in residence or a variety of time […]
Here I am a few days on from the so-called dilemma. Feeling silly because it wasn’t really a dilemma at all. Being that “woman in a hurry” I’d gone off half-cocked. OF COURSE there wasn’t really a choice between the […]
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