Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to Alice: I don’t much care where. The Cat: Then it doesn’t much […]
Nearly finish my first chapter of dissertation and its really helping me focus more on my final degree show, first chapter is on Ilya Kabakov, how his installation are staged. This is a great help to me as l am […]
So… More conversations. Some, that start out fairly ordinarily, become the subject of a conversation in themselves. Are the stupid text messages and emails I send (and receive) also part of my practice? The things we send each other to […]
‘… Milky Way You Will Hear Me Call …’ Exhibition and talk event: Wild Pansy Press Project Space, University of Leeds 15 October 2012 I wanted to write about attending this event in the context of generosity and gift for […]
Progress! Today I’ve produced 4 drawings – I’ve titled them all after the question that Alice asks the Cheshire Cat. They are finished for today, but I’ll continue adding arrows to them as I collect them over the next week. […]
In my last post, over a year ago, I suggested that once you start getting paid to write your personal blog goes up in smoke, which is partly my excuse for shirking. Then again it could have something to do […]
My first post on a-n, wow … Well I’ve got an event to publicise, a short film showcase, featuring my art film ‘Shadows’ at Milton Keynes Gallery this Friday, 23rd November from 6.30. Exhibiting Filmmakers get in free to the […]
I don’t know why it is, but every time I de-install an exhibition, I feel like I have flu coming on. Is it because I spend weeks feeling tense during the exhibition, I suddenly relax when it’s all over…and that’s […]
My practice has taken a number of unexpected but exciting directions since starting my degree and third year, so far, has proved no different! If anything, I would say I am even more surprised by the routes I am beginning […]
I’ve had an insanely busy week so far, with more to come! This week is the ‘making’ week of OLD SOLES. With 300 shoes to be made over the week it was never going to be restful and with a […]
A £60,000 award to produce new work for regional museums has been won by The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln with artist Oliver Laric.
Petition calls for national leaders to “demonstrate political vision and courage” when they debate the next EU budget later this week.
Exhibition Planning There are 6 weeks to go until my first exhibition. If you take out 2 weeks for Christmas and two weeks for mounting and framing then I effectively have about 2 weeks left to do some additional work. […]
Development of the chair + Orange Uncle Ben’s packaging plastic trimmings. I was heavily researching the history of furniture and exploring the large gap between the bespoke and the mass produced.
I’ve continued to think about the comment my Mum made about me ‘not working.’ Some things people say just get inside you and won’t go away – you need time to mull them over and process them. And some things […]
DEPTHS OF DESPAIR !!!! We were told this space is to chart our progres – or not??!!A crisis of confidence. Don’t know where to go next. My work is SOOOO Boring and predictable.I despair of ever making any progress. Think […]
I’m aware I can’t address ideas of exchange, generosity and reciprocity between artists without looking at money (or the lack of it). I’ve just started reading “Why Are Artists Poor” by Hans Abbing (downloadable from this link www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=340245) and plan […]
A different kind of day. He began with the intention of painting, but mind and muscles were reluctant. He was going to paint an outline image of a bird. Each time he put brush to surface, the result was clumsy. […]
Something has shifted; I’ve reached the realisation feminist concerns are central to my practice. It’s as if pieces of the puzzle have just clicked into place finally granting me illumination – understanding that perhaps I’ve also been unconsciously resisting to […]
The discussion event about the U.F.O project that Nicola Naismith and I undertook, from October 2011 to August 2012, is on tomorrow evening at 7pm. We will at last be launching the Touring Territories blog book of the project. Nicola […]
