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I am showing work next week at Space Gallery in Folkestone. My exhibition was arranged before they switched to being a for hire space, so if anything sells there is a fairly hefty commission! I am turning the gallery into […]

Somewhere below the surface within In Deed is a repeated two way activity. I commented on Cally Shadbolt’s blog earlier that many possiblilities occur in the studio during the final stages of the degree that can’t be investigated until later. […]

It really is a long time since I added a post. In a way I feel that I should put this blog to bed for a while. The transition back to making work with the dolls is nearly complete and, […]

Can generosity be a reciprocal practice? Artist interview with Kate Murdoch (part two, continued from yesterday) JM: Having done the project in several locations and contexts now, have you observed any differences in how people of different ages, background of […]

Dear Martin, Thank you for your application to perform at DRUNKEN NIGHTS. We had an overwhelming response to the opportunity, with 117 proposals and just 19 performance slots. Unfortunately, on this occasion we have not chosen your work to be […]

Hello, Thank you for your recent proposal for the FON Air Radio Micro-Commissions 2012/13. We had an unprecedented response to the call and have found the selection process particularly challenging with many high – quality applications having to be reluctantly […]

Hi Martin, Hope all’s well with you. Thank you very much for taking the time to apply to our Art and Anthropology seminar. We found your ideas very interesting, but sadly will not be able to host your presentation on […]

Went up to Liverpool to see the John Moores painting prize yesterday. I travelled up with my sister, who has been visiting from Australia and was doing her usual mad dash around the UK to see her many friends; one […]

The start of my final year as a BA (Hons) Fine Art student. This experiment was part of the 48 hour exhibition in which finished pieces were not a priority.

I’ve been thinking about doing more drawing for a while now. Looking at some of the recent photographs of my work, has enabled me to focus on smaller areas and look at the actual design produced between spaces. It really […]

After a period of ‘calm’ (such as it ever is) I am now at a time of back to back MAKING MADNESS. I have many projects about to happen one after the other with little breathing space in between. So […]

/ed cicatrix macula (paratus) Prequels require us to think backwards, to envisage what came before the start. Does the ‘now’ then become the ‘sequal’? An outsider suggested we change the language: /ed becomes ‘cicatrix’ so medicalising it. SLASH becomes INCISE, […]

A trip to London last week with the children to the Wellcome Collection and the Grant Museum of Zoology provided plenty of meaty inspiration for my latest project. I am looking into mutation, metamorphosis and change. I am not sure […]