One day, an art tutor suggested we think of our studio space as a lab where we could explore our painting. I was appalled at the idea… I am moving from full-time work researching the linguistics of metaphor to spend […]
I have a confession to make to you all. All this time I’ve tried to pretend that I’m successful in some way. In the hope that someone will recognise all my efforts and offer me some proper paid work. In […]
For some artists, ideas are the bread and butter of their practice. For others, actions take precedence. Personally I feel my own practice is a mixture of both. Ideas come and go, as does the immersion in the action of […]
Adding the skin to the machine. Today I have been in the metal workshop all day creating the bodywork for the machine. I am pleased with the outcome and there has been a big leap forward with it. This project […]
The deadline for hearing if I had been shortlisted for the proposal I sent in, came and went just before Christmas. I gathered up all the paperwork, my notes etc for it, and threw them in the bin…as any normal, […]
Well what can I say, I did not get it right, there I admitted it and the reason being I had not done my home work before jumping in. I had produced a page correctly from my family facebook page, […]
Last week I was invited to go along to meet up with the ‘Friends of Norton Common‘ where they were working on clearing an area of undergrowth towards the Icknield Way side of the Common. These are the very culprits […]
I’m starting the school mural properly this week, payment negotiated and agreed, the job seen as a separate project, not as part of my normal working week. So that’s good. Proper artist money, as opposed to part time teacher money. […]
Been trying to get back to work this week but finding it very hard. Everywhere I’m reading tweets and blogs full of excited inspiration, but I just can’t seem to find this for myself yet. As ever what I SHOULD […]
Today I re-read the biography I used recently for an exhibition at S1 artspace in Sheffield in order to help write a new text for the show at Derby Museum. It really has helped me to write more clearly about […]
In November we reported that a petition launched by artists was calling for Brighton & Hove City Council to protect artists’ and makers’ workspaces. Having exceeded the 1250 signatures necessary to ensure a full hearing, the campaign’s leader describes the next steps and how artists can make a difference.
UK-based curatorial project Open File investigates the distribution and production of art via virtual and digital platforms with an ambitious event at the ICA, London.
What about the cultural and socio-economic context we are living in, can’t I just have blamed that in my recounting of my story here?. Or, as many thinkers/writers including Atwood and Eisenstein have recently explored, blame the primal human programming […]
‘It is not without reason that our financial elites have been called a priesthood. Donning ceremonial garb, speaking an arcane language, wielding mysterious inscriptions, they can with a mere word or a mere stroke of a pen, cause fortunes and […]
Twelfth night’s been and gone, time for the decorations to be taken down and stored away for another year – a familiar activity for me, this packing up and storing away business. Just been catching up with other’s blogs and […]
Studio Visit in Feb from Deb Robinson, Head of Exhibitions at New Art Gallery, Walsall. Mentoring beginning soon after a meeting with Lara Ratnaraja at The Custard Factory on Friday. (Wow, Lara is dynamic). Joined ESP (Extra Special People, Eastside […]
‘The collective effects of changes in my movements upon well-being’ Portsmouth: January 7th Woken at 5:17 go back to dream – have to find those missing – search Up – bathe – dress – before the weekly walk and wait […]
I haven’t written on here for a little while. Dissertation has totally absorbed me over the last six weeks and have found it a struggle to get back into it after the xmas break. Have been working very slowly on […]
I walked from Granada city to look at this ravine nearby, it was surprisingly close to the city, the road led out to a landscape of caves and valleys. It was a bright cold sunny day and there was an […]
