I have just received the exciting news that I have a place on a short course that I recently applied for. Sixteen years after finishing at the Slade I will be back at art school! The course – An Introduction […]
‘At the third stroke it will be Five twenty three and fourteen seconds’ Portsmouth: 18th January Wake breathe and collect as usual 5:23am Look out of window – no snow r e w a k e a t 7:47 – […]
It has taken me awhile to find time to edit the conversations I have been recording. But I have finally finished editing and putting online the first in my new series of creative conversations! I start this new series by […]
A bit of a progress report: -I’ve been to see someone at Liverpool John Moores University to see about getting some display boxes laser cut, and that is in progress. I figured that laser cutting plywood would give a neat […]
Week 17: 7th – 13th JanuaryIt’s the first full week back at uni and term has started with a vengeance. I thought I had a relatively quiet week to start the year, but when I looked at my diary, I […]
It’s been a bit of a blurgh day…. a trek through the snow to work, convinced that my wellies were leaking…..and a reject from the commission I’d applied for. Not so bad for me really, compared to us all sitting […]
We’re discussing the possibility of doing more exhibition work at the space – something this space has purposely not moved into after the Norwich incarnation of the QH Gallery, St Benedicts Street. To this end I went to the London […]
LOOKING AT CHRISTMAS SKETCHES Thank goodness the dissertation and hours bent over my laptop are over. Computers drive me mad and make my shoulders ache. Went swimming today which eased the pain. Just love swimming. So calming. Started a new […]
1-2-1-+ Reflecting on where to show my performance work in the university is making me re-consider the location of it. The point of a 1-2-1 performance is all about intimacy, however is that totally appropriate and right within a university […]
After almost a month of feeling totally lethargic, I’ve been kick started into action by an unexpected means. My boiler went. Well, not all of the boiler thankfully – just the hot water. Two days of boiling kettles and pans […]
I apologize to any of you who read this and aren’t involved in education, but I really need to rant today! I haven’t blogged twice in a week before, but with so much occupying my head, unless I get it […]
Currently Reading: Zucker, Paul. 1968. Fascination of Decay. The Gregg Press, New Jersey. In the introduction Why Ruins, Zucker includes the following definitions of the ruin, it’s image and value (p.2-3): “A ruin exists in a state of continual transition […]
A gift. Today I was given a box of medical equipment, due to the nature of my work I will be able to use them in the soap mask which is connected to the soap pump machine.When I saw the […]
This is the first piece of work I have made since leaving art school that is on a large scale, and which I have mainly based on my intuition. I’ve limited the amount of research and sources that I have […]
It is amazing how easily life can just take over and time just disappears!! Today was the first day in a week that I have picked up my brush and managed to paint and that was for only two hours, […]
At the moment I feel both busy and at a gloriously free and loose end – enabling me to grant myself a bit of time to actually PROPERLY consider what I am doing, whilst at the same time making things […]
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
15 January – 2 February 2013
