A while back (post #200 actually) I had a bit of a rant about art and craft. I spent years making all sorts of things, designing all sorts of stuff. It was extremely difficult to come to call myself an […]
So today I am stuck indoors thanks to a particularly severe flare-up of my RA which means I can’t walk and can only just cope even with loads of the ususal meds. It has been going on for nearly a […]
In the studio. First blog in the studio, working more on the machine the ‘soap pump’. The progress of the machine is starting to quicken and the final pieces of the puzzle are coming together, i’m hoping that a full […]
Littoral literally Cambridge: January 21st Wake at 5am and listen to radio – endless news about the weather reminding me – taunting me not to worry. Wear hat for first time this year – Two University meetings – aspergers student […]
‘Just having a conversation really helps’ Cambridge: January 22nd Woken at 5:27am – makes a change – snooze fighting back literal dreams TV – Endless news proclaims Cambridge as being the coldest place in the UK at minus 12 – […]
At times today it felt like the world was conspiring against me. Icy conditions and serial road works made the journey to Wimbledon drag on for what felt like forever. I was itching to get on with some work but […]
I’m back to un-coding the code. Maybe we shouldn’t be called teachers… Maybe we should be called examples – exemplar? Isn’t that just a better way to describe what we should be doing? Our job description? I made a mistake […]
A year or so ago I gave a talk about my work at Beacon Bimonthlies 7. http://beaconbimonthlies.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01… The basis for my talk was about how I have found that it is impossible to get away from yourself – your ‘core […]
A project that asks the public to spark up a conversation with Bristol’s street furniture has been awarded the inaugural Playable City Award.
An ambitious new exhibition at Stills, Edinburgh, and CCA, Glasgow explores the state of Europe’s economy today and the profound changes that have impacted on us all since the banking crisis of 2008. We talk to curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd about this landmark show.
After a busy 2012 of solo shows, festivals and art fairs; we talk to Scottish artist Kevin Harman about his career since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art’s MFA in 2010. And pick his brain on art education today.
We talk to third year student Val Jones as she secures her own voice through painting, in time for 2013 degree shows at University Campus Suffolk.
Private Views, UK
21 January 2013
Business Design Centre, London
16 – 20 January 2013
We have arrived in Japan and the Rules have been announced! The Rules:– Attack!– Find the stage.– Balance– You also are here. The artists have started exploring Yokohama and working in the studio. They will be posting their thoughts on […]
Sock A(9) has arrived back from holiday up north with Sockateer J. The bones have been unearthed! Now weighs 40g, packaging lost a little, now 39g. I shall do something to it and pass back to Sockateer S asap!
George Dickie In the build up to Market Value at A+D Gallery in Chicago next month, Upper Crust Auction House have published a little feature on the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish which aligns my practice here with Emeritus Professor of […]
