If I may set the scene… Interim assessment for the MA Fine Art was rapidly approaching at the end of April. Previous attempts to secure a gallery space we (the other MA students) can all use have come to no […]
THE LIST PART 2 (continued from previous post) 6. My father has to have a pacemaker fitted so will need a little time to recover before I film him taking the journey back to Hartlepool. Looks like it will be […]
Deep Sigh….. LOAF has been amazing. I don’t know if it is because I’m tired, but I could lie in a darkened room and have a little bit of a cry before I fall asleep. I feel so grateful for […]
Why did you come here ? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? ask it again What are these decisions made on? [ ] {Silence} ( ) ‘sigh‘ multi-storied ebbsnflows constructed […]
“The Voyagers” work in progress. www.a-n.co.uk/p/2299600
Things just fall into place… A friend emailed me information on a Bauhaus costume making workshop in the Lighthouse Glasgow. What perfect timing! Preparation led me to dancer Martha Graham (who’s work was introduced to me by my aunt in […]
After my last post I could not help wondering if I’m shooting myself in the foot by revealing so much about the facts of life with M.E. Talked it over with a friend who can’t imagine it would hurt my […]
This year’s shortlisted artists explore the parameters of photography and invite us to reconsider the meaning of the contemporary photograph.
At an event at Manchester Art Gallery last night to celebrate the purchase of his work A Sleek Dry Yell, Haroon Mirza talked to a-n about life as an international artist and his plans to host residencies in his Sheffield studio.
Here’s a finished olololo arranged in its perspex case with a handful of closed books stacked behind it. It all went on display at the Modern Art Oxford shop yesterday and I’m really happy with it. A lovely end to […]
Had a really good meeting with Anna and Ingrid after Ingrid emailed with details of a residency that would give us the opportunity to develop our Sandcastles in Greece project. I am delighted that they both want to continue with […]
Smacking things together for an Offcutter session is an antidote to the laborious process I usually go through when making sculpture. It’s fast and exciting and though the starting point may be some particular object I often chuck in oddments […]
Thoughts from the cooler: I cherish and am probably quite protective of my moments of solitude. This does not include time in the cooler. Inside it is a practical place, I never sit ponder or gaze. I never read or […]
So here we go. This is a new blog focusing on my residence at the Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London. Over the next 5 weeks I will be keeping you up to date on my activities as I work towards an […]
This morning was my first visit to the Newham archives and I spent just over 2 hours viewing around 50 of Gill’s drawings. The first thing that struck me was the fragile intimacy of the works. They are all about […]
I have to be in control of this. When I started and it was just a whim, favours and maybes were fine. “Sometime Friday” just doesn’t cut it any more. I am grateful for the generosity, but need to be […]
Enjoyed the opening of When the Walls Come Down though a little disappointed that my work wasn’t selected for Wandering Rocks. Have to stay confident in the work though. Anyhow, onto the next thing. I am doing a project called […]
