One week into the course and feeling really thankful for getting into Roehampton and being on the Art Psychotherapy programme. Attention now turns to familiarising my self with the curriculum and how it’s applicable to me as a part time […]
South London Gallery, London
28 September – 25 November 2012
George and Jorgen, London
14 September – 5 October 2012
The Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton
20 September – 14 October 2012
My posts seems-to be morphing into a diary of time off art making, of wandering around its edges, of PV’s, outings….. I am certainly in a fallow, sit back and ponder phase. It all feels very autumnal. My Protestant work […]
I have just spent about an hour and a half out in the garden, with my new secateurs, hacking hell out of the plants. I’m now really grubby, the green bin is full, I’ve sent the cat into a frenzy […]
“As Ye Sew, So Shall Ye Rip” Anon. From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. Honore de Balzac Reflecting on the mark making of […]
“Does He believe all that stuff?” He enjoys it. That may be the worst of it. He lives daily with a degree of anxiety. Writing is an uneven pleasure. He doesn’t want to be a smartarse, but that is how […]
Ah, paid work. The great leveller. There’s no time to be pondering about high falutin stuff like bourgeois models of art and social praxis and get your head around Glissant and rhizomes when you’ve got to feed a team of […]
In the interests of research, I’ve been reading the most interesting book on Superheroes called SuperGods, Our World in the age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison. The whole comic book thing is a new world to me and I […]
As The Manchester Contemporary art fair gets underway, we take a tour and talk to some of the galleries taking part this year.
Everything must go at Liverpool’s Static gallery, but, as director Paul Sullivan explains, this is not a closing down sale.
Walker Art Gallery, liverpool
15 September 2012 – 6 January 2013
Things that have recently (and not so recently) found their way to the studio … 1) Homemade wooden Finnish doll. She sits on my desk just next to the computer; she seems to be taking a sideways glance at whatever […]
“Jump over the wall of self and inhabit someone else” David Foster Wallace /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Thinking about art that is predicated on gift and generosity. Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Who else?
new face to conjure No sign of anyone recognising the shoe lady. Instead, here is another face. I was part of a festival community event and am shocked at how unreal I look. I was intrigued to hear the theory […]
