How distracting the moors are as you go towards Manchester on the M62! The road’s high and fast, and rises and falls around you like a roiling ocean. I was on my way there last weekend to take part in […]
Decided to have a sketchbook/blog/painting day today and then a Dissertation day tomorrow. Started a new sketchbook today with a few pages on Damien Hirst and some initial rough sketches of some paintings I’m planning to create over the next […]
Currently Reading: Tim Noble & Sue Webster – Wasted Youth (2006, Rizzoli, New York) I borrowed this book from the University library this acquaint myself with Noble & Webster’s back catalogue and find more about how they source their rubbish. […]
Currently Reading: Rachel Buchanan – Recycling Doctoral Waste The offcuts, outtakes, remnants, scraps, dust and all the other intellectual waste products generated by a PhD or any other large research project. http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/ha100011/87 Buchanan references Klaus Neumann’s ‘the subversive potential of […]
Books as Rubbish With the proliferation of digital information via the internet, ebooks and kindles, traditional books are arguably becoming or have become (to some degree) obsolete. There is strong support and advocacy to uphold a place for the traditional […]
Categorisation: Stuff, Things and Objects In a recent Guardian article by Justin McGuirk (17 September 2012) the Museum of Things is inspected revealing a history of German design and notions of function and taste. Through questioning why the Museum of […]
Waste Types (source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_waste_types ) Agricultural waste Animal by-products Biodegradable waste Biomedical waste Bulky waste Business waste Chemical waste Clinical waste Coffee wastewater Commercial waste Composite waste Construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) Consumable waste Controlled waste Demolition waste […]
Municipal Waste Case Study: Calderdale Calderdale Waste facts and figures: • Calderdale residents produce around 78,000 tonnes of waste each year. • In 2010 / 2011 Calderdale recycled around 41% of this waste; 32,000 tonnes. • 17,000 tonnes is recycled […]
Sculpture as unintentional rubbish receptacles I attended Kasper König’s Skulptur Projekte Münster – 1977–2007 seminar at Leeds Art Gallery yesterday – an animated retrospective of Skulptur Projekte Münster by the project’s co-founder and Director of Museum Ludwig, Cologne. http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/events/kasper-kanig-skulptur-projekte-manster Kasper […]
Pondering the PechaKucka in Wakefield. Attending as a disembodied head on a screen it was hard to judge the atmosphere and responses to our presentation. (I say our although my contribution added up to a lot of nodding, grinning and […]
Quiet on the art-making front for me lately, what with new school year for my little one and finishing off an exam paper for ‘Renaissance Art Reconsidered’ course. (Incidentally, if you ever want to know anything about Paolo da San […]
I received the funding! This project is now more real to me than ever before. I have had the busiest week so far for this project. I have decided to breakdown my past week on a day to day basis […]
Thursday – I wake up about 9. During the night I hastily wrote down all I could remember in the session with Sylvia in the last pages of my book. In the morning Emma, my cousin makes me eggs on […]
The forthcoming edition of Sluice art fair will manifest itself as a publication and an exhibition in which all of the work will be auctioned to raise funds for 2013.
An exhibition by Robin Tarbet signals a new direction for Frome’s Black Swan Arts, which lost its Arts Council England funding last year.
Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
28 September – 17 November 2012
As September ended, Katie Goodwin and I took some people around Bermondsey on a South London Art Map Last Fridays tour. Living in South-East London, I was already familiar with the SLAM. I’ve explored most of the Peckham and Deptford […]
Paintings for the next exhibition were already stacked up in the space when we arrived to take our exhibition down. Such is the nature of the Independents. One blink of an eye and everyone has moved on to the next […]
People have been asking if things are going as I expected. To be honest, I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew that I’d be focusing on a specific research topic, which was a welcome opportunity as I now […]
This painting was the first one I did for my project ‘Interiors and Unreality’. It is based on a photograph taken at the Tudor mansion ‘Paycockes’, in Coggeshall. My idea was to paint a scene with an intense, dreamlike atmosphere, […]
Frieze i Once again I was fortunate to be a VIP’s “plus one” for my Frieze experience. Having not always had this privilege I really do appreciate the difference. After a plentiful breakfast at Tate Britain with time to see […]
