My new sketches and the development of the operating table. The videos are becoming a strong and important part of my work which enables me to present my drawings in a more imperior way, as the viewer can hear the […]
Garbage Pail Kids.
The Daily Telegraph.
I left a secure job in 2012 in teaching to focus solely on my art practice and see what happens. At the same time I took on an allottment. My plot is no 39.
‘..Let the poor man look deep into generosity Let bread see a hungry man. Let kindling behold a spark from the flint An empty mirror and your worst destructive habits, When they are held up to each other, That’s when […]
Today, I got myself ready in preparation to hate the John Moores painting Prize : http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/jm2012/ It opened with the Biennial, back in September, but because there was so much on then – the Biennial, The Independents and my own […]
After a lacklustre start due to persistant illness (and first sober New Year since time began) I feel that this year needs to bear fruit. I also feel that it needs new levels of autheticity. I don’t have time to […]
Hardly know where to start with where my lookings findings and doings have taken me since my last post. There’s just so stuff – from actions, conversations. thinking, reading – swimming about in my brain, still being processed- which is […]
New Year, new projects and a small leap into the unknown… As 2013 gets underway my forthcoming residency at the Centre for Drawing feels very timely, a short but focused period of activity in which to produce new work that […]
To teach is to perform. To teach is to be an example (turning into Bo Jones – be afraid!). Maybe this is why sometimes I rail against the fact I teach. I must be an example. I should be respectable. […]
Yet again, I’ve taken the paper out of the pack and ran my fingers over the textured surface. Yet again, I’ve thought about making a mark. That’s as far as it’s got though, as I carefully seal the pack again […]
‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors…’ Lords Prayer (early version) I still had one Jesus Army flyer left. Light-headed by now from the appropriateness of what I was encountering to my own personal story, I moved down […]
‘When ritual is embedded in a story that people believe, they act accordingly, playing out the roles the story assigns to them and responding to the reality the story establishes’ (Sacred Economics, Eisenstein) Searching for material on the connection between […]
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION: Ok so the winter months have brought with them a clarification of ideas. To start with though an apology, to myself and others. I have really struggled with how to approach writing a blog as I research […]
Back in the studio today after a longish break. In part due to the festive season but also because I have been stuck behind the computer doing hours and hours of boring stuff. The only thing that keeps me going […]
‘The importance of accidental meaning can be found in the smallest things‘ Portsmouth: January 5th home Awake early again – dreams started but unfinished rudely interrupted by 7.27am – spend most of the night systemizing the situation – results not […]
