Just when I was thinking about how to put into words what compelled me to make my new work without explaining it away I re-found this piece of limpid writing which delights and pierces me every time I read it […]
Liverpool Biennial: Thresholds: The Unexpected Guest Yesterday I was back at the Biennial getting annoyed with the exhibitions programme. It doesn’t list venue opening times, doesn’t list many exhibitions at the venues it does briefly list but above all annoyances […]
Sadly I forgot all about this post when creating the works for my latest show, I did document a lot of it at my other blog at wordpress but forgot this place existed. Not the website but the fact I […]
Liverpool Biennial: The Medium is the Medium The event I was in Liverpool for yesterday was an afternoon of discussion on critical writing billed as, “A day of expert debate around why critical writing is important in a mature and […]
Apart from burying my lovely cat who died very suddenly the night before, I had a great day yesterday. The Boat Cloth is coming on and I think I will get it made on time. My cat will also get […]
I was sent some photos from Situation/Intervention Construct/De-Construct a week or so ago. I include these with this blog post. Also included is the video essay that was presented at the exhibition. I thought this video was a good idea. […]
FOOLS RUSH IN, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO GO……but wise men never fall in love so how are they to know? So goes the lyric written by Johnny Mercer in 1940, later sung by Frank Sinatra, Rick Nelson and Doris Day […]
performing in Xu Zhen’s In Just a Blink of an Eye.
David Marchant. For this project I was interested in working with the public within a space in Swansea, to create a social commentary and a visual conversation. I opted to do this on Wind Street late on a Saturday night […]
Artist David Blandy introduces his work for Art Across The City 2012 I’ve made a Guitar Hero-type game that pits two Swansea figures against each other, Dylan Thomas and the Swansea Devil. I was reading Thomas’s “And Death shall have […]
Mental Drawing. It was so easy to write loftily that I was inspired to “re-evaluate my practice with a focus on drawing”, (what does that even mean?) when the time came to actually do something about it, to walk the […]
The starting points for further defining and developing my post-MA art practice are the two project ideas: ‘Un-fictions’ and ‘Snapshots’. Informed by diverse theoretical research, the central concerns are the conditions and problems of representation and meaning. Drawing on the […]
sadly it has been rather too long since i was last here, my ideas have been moving along, then got stuck, then i got too busy. poor excuse i know. after the last post i suddenly realised that all i […]
but as i sat in my studio last night, creating stock to fulfill orders, which is lovely to be making but as it is a repeat of a product requires little creative input, it struck me how whilst we are […]
This blog traces the continuing development of two projects begun during my recent Masters degree. Questioning the nature of objects, images and experiences, I am interested in the unreliability or inconsistency of images and meaning, and how we might or […]
This blog documents my progression through academia as a visual artist. I completed a Practice-led PhD in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds in December 2016. The focus of my […]
We report from the opening of this ambitious curatorial project, which explores the complex and often problematic relationship between nature and culture.
