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“Find something you love to do, and you’ll never work a day in your life” – Harvey MacKay In the latter stages of last year I decided that I wanted to find a middle ground between what I was doing […]

I went to a new inner margin yesterday. Is that a misnomer? Can you have an inner margin? Well, it was somewhere new to me and in that, it contained inherent challenges such as how to get into a seemingly […]

Current Reading: Commentary by Michael Crang – Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society (2012) Environment and Planning A, volume 44, pages 763 – 767 “There has been a recent spate of artistic work focusing […]

Huge consumption bibliography resource discovered from the project Cultures of Consumption Consumption Bibliography www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/news/progdocs/consumption%20biblio.doc “Cultures of Consumption was a 5 year, £5 million research programme that studied consumption in a global context. It ran from 2002 to 2007. Research ranged […]

The photographic image I’m currently caught in a fascination with the photographic image. For Georges Didi-Huberman the image offers an amalgam – the visible conflated with the illusive; a site of confusion, revelation, and thought in action. It has a […]

A discussion between Sophie Cullinan and Elena Thomas, on Sophies’ a-n blog – which is a great read, about what constitutes “best” in terms of materials lead me to thinking about the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ and how I […]

Henry Lefebvre – Clearing Ground (1961) published in Documents of Contemporary Art: The Everday. Edited by Stephen Johnstne. Whitechapel and The MIT Press, 2008 “A social group is characterized just as much by what it rejects as by what it […]

Culture Now: Michael Landy Published on YouTube on 27 Jul 2012 by ICALondon Michael Landy in conversation with ICA director Gregor Muir on Scrapheap Services (1995) having to shred 2000 misprinted crates, cataloguing the entirety of his world belongings which […]

I have that feeling burning inside me…right now I need to look at paintings, I need to paint. It’s hard to describe, unless you know it well. It’s an energy, an emotion. It’s the act of painting, putting paint to […]

The Mayfiello Collective team leader Marcuso Florello in the bath somewhere in Pointeso suburb Zone 31 E. ‘I write here on my new Lexor Pad edition 45. The bubbles from the glorious bath are popping in my ears. My head […]

D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 29/08/12 How to fold an MFA

Water Lights. I am curating an outdoor public screening of new experiental films by myself and Hazel Stone for Whitstable Bennale Satellite. We had a technical run through last night and it looks amazing. I’m very happy. More details to […]

I’m so excited about my upcoming trip to Oslo that now the flights are booked, the hotel is booked, and I’ve planned out what I’m going to do while I’m there, aside from Apparatjiking at the brand shiny new Astrup […]

Am I able to sustain my practice at the same time as maintaining a blog, I asked when I started writing ‘Keeping It Going.’ In the absence of a studio and access to this blog over the past two weeks, […]

JUDITH STEWART RESIDENCY PART 2 Sinthoms, Stains, McGuffins and Objects of Exchange Part II ‘The objective of this residency was to help me identify whether there is a connection between two apparently different strands in my work over recent years. […]

There. Fifty olololos safely delivered to the gallery by bike this afternoon. It didn’t dare rain on me. I’m giving my hands and the muscles of my arms a REST before I get started on the last seventy or so.

In the interests of blog integrity I need to share a true fact. I can walk the walk, but find it very tricky to talk the talk. Being a gemini you would think that I would have been blessed with […]

looks like one of those old postcards you buy for 5p in a junk shop..or 10p maybe..