Some things about not being in the studio: • Today I heard somebody use their car horn for the first time (we have been in Japan for over a week).• At some underground stations bird song is played on the […]
I’m not in touch much but getting closer. Still have got e-mails to answer from the time I was away – catching up is hard to do, esp. as I’m easily side-tracked by the urge to make work, or at […]
Bubble success. Today I did a test run of the bubble pump, to great effect. I’m pleased with the colour of of the liquid, in the liquid vessel, it has a real sense of glowing green toxic waste. It is […]
I’ve given up on ever seeing the amazing sunlight from my first day at the Centre for Drawing again, so have compromised somewhere between soldiering on regardless and thinking on my feet. My previous ideas of making work that changes […]
Great news, finished the”Buoy” picture today and had it approved for a forth coming exhibition at The Peacock Gallery, Upton Country Park, Poole from the 7th -18th Feb. Anyone passing can have a noisy at how the picture looks in […]
Splat. Photo’s took through out the day of the soap pump.
Move follows announcement that Westminster City Council plans to axe entire £350,000 Arts and Culture programme.
In the light of Arts Council England’s recent capital grants announcement, Alistair Gentry asks when investment in the work of new, financially strapped artists will be given the same priority.
A traineeship at Matt’s Gallery in East London is offering recent graduates an opportunity to gain valuable experience working as part of a gallery team.
Episode 2 of my creative conversation sees me concluding my chat with Hannah Sofaer and Paul Crabtree from the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. On this show we talk about some of the fantastic exhibitions that went on at the […]
Sophie Cullinan’s query about Arts Council funding – why don’t I apply?? I’ve applied several times, only to be rejected, and you know the phrase, once bitten, twice shy?? This is my career. This is my only chance to earn […]
In an interesting twist, the two works I took to Edinburgh (One Minute Birdwatching and Hear a Pin Drop Here) have been programmed by Forest Fringe for an event in Japan. http://www.britishcouncil.org/japan-arts-forest-fr… The theme for the TPAM event is ‘Playing […]
It takes an unbelievable amount of work to start a new art organisation. More than perhaps we realised only a few months ago when we had a Fame-like “let’s put the show on right here” moment. We’d decided that there […]
The ‘soap mask’ is up. Today I wanted to see what the mask would look like suspended in the air, attached to the machine, and I am more then pleased with the out come, as it has made the machine […]
Hello everyone! This is a very quick update with what I’ve been doing over Christmas. A lot of people are celebrating the end of their dissertations in their posts so I’m not going to talk about that. The only thing […]
CONTINUATION OF PAINTING My constant fight to ‘go abstract’ has taken a different direction. Am sure it’s not new – nothing is….but I decided to work in stages. First very loosely drawing the composition, then blocking in flat colour shapes […]
It was good to be back at the Centre for Drawing today after the weekend. After a busy day I’ve now only got two working days left, my head is bursting full of ideas and I don’t have enough time […]
So all my gathering is now done. I have amassed a mountain of bits and pieces, gathered information and recollections, photographs and video, notes and sketches. Now the serious work starts and the serious questions…. what to do with it, […]
I have started working on several projects at once. Whilst this is not new – I don’t normally have so many personal pieces on the go at once. I normally have a couple of personal things and then some where […]