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It’s been a busy busy summer… apart from the to-ing and fro-ing of daily activities for my school-aged child and family camping by the sea, I have been doing my best to get to grips with research for an art […]

‘ORGANS!’ A group show featuring works by Gillian Best-Powell, Andy Chapman, Nolia Devlin, Eldi Dundee, Natalie Gudushauri, Hanz Hancock, HET, Alexis Johnson, Edgeworth Johnstone, Marcia Mar, Patrick Morrissey, Katy Murphy, Valeriya N-Georg, Sean Gavin O’Hara a.k.a. Porky O’Blivion, Suzanne Roquette, […]

‘The Treatment for Six Characters’, (Work-in-progress) INTRODUCTION, 1 As part of my residency at the British School at Rome, made possible by the Derek Hill Scholarship, I will be working with the resources of the British School at Rome, as […]

introduction, part 2 Intriguingly, Pirandello sustained an enduring interest in the relationship of his plays and stories to the structures of film and in fact tried thirty-nine times to get ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ filmed, without success. […]

Attending a fine art exhibition like ‘Nothing Like Something Happens Anywhere’ (6 July – 2 September 2012) at Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, Wales is enough to make an abstract artist alternate their previous style, from violent brushstrokes to calming detail; from […]

Watch out for the forthcoming Frazzlement 58 event at the neo-hipster gallery bar – Hiller Space Temple in Pointeso Eastern zone. Former DJ turned foodie critic Marlon Acebridge: ‘The Hiller Space Temple oozes the Pacifica Village feel of Athletico harbour […]

I still seem to be playing catch up after the holiday; there’s a real sense that I’m clearing the decks in preparation for some hard work ahead. I feel in limbo with regards to 10 x 10 as there’s nothing […]

What a good surprise to find Emily Rosamond’s Choice Blog review this morning! I want to think more about the Bergson coils, which remind me of these vertiginous attempts I’ve been making to capture time in writing, when time stays […]

Different Expectations What do people expect from Open Studios? Well, we have just had back the results of our Artist and Visitor Surveys for Forth Valley Open Studios, an event now in its third year. It has thrown up some […]

Managed to catch 2 things on the radio that I enjoyed today; John Gray on Radio 4’s A point of view, talking about J G Ballard and memory and Tacita Dean on Radio 3’s Private Passions; John Gray was before […]

TWO FUNERALS, A BRIDGE, AND A DAY IN TEESSIDE What it is to be human. Life is such a weird thing and I am aware that my own personal creative drive has been fuelled by the need to make sense […]

Currently Reading: Harriet Hawkins – Visions of Excess: Michael Landy’s Break Down and the work of Georges Bataille. Published in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, October 2010 Hawkins talks about Landy’s work Break Down as “unbuildings” and compares to Bataille’s […]

Today was my youngest child’s birthday. 7 today and if it is as they say in ‘7 UP’ – ‘show me the child at 7 and I’ll show you the man’ then I’ll be pretty happy with the way he […]

D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 31/09/12 When you are ready for your degree show, it is very good karma to lend others a hand. Here, Conor Maguire wants to […]

D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 02/09/12 Interesting juxtapositions are always on offer in group shows and sometimes the results are stellar. Like two photographers side by side: one archive […]

D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 03/09/12 ‘Gone Postal’, is almost a year old! Post 100 feels like a good place to stop. My degree show is mounted and I […]