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‘The Cooler’. I’ve got to spend a lot of time in there. The faries don’t come during the night and progress the work. I’ve done about 3 weeks so far. But the time has been dispersed with plenty of other […]

The blind man’s guide, Meek and neglected thing, of no renown! Soon will peep forth the primrose, ere it fades Friends shall I have at dawn, blackbird and thrush To rouse me, and a hundred warblers more! from ‘The Recluse’ […]

I’ve written a sort of press release thingy….. LOAF 2012 Saturday July 14th 10.00am – 5.00pm Sunday July 15th 11.00am – 4.00pm LOAF – Life and Other Arts Festival – is an arts festival with a difference. For the last […]

All this week I am posting information about our forthcoming exhibition, ‘Modern Madonnas’ and some background to the work of the artists selected for the show.Information about the dates, times and how to find us are given below. The private […]

I am the writer in residence at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon-Tyne. I will be sharing my work-in-progress during FREE events throughout 2012. Saturday 21 July at 11.30, Monday 3rd September, 7pm and Thursday 18 October at 1.15pm. […]

Happy Travelling “You are feeling excited. Your suitcase is packed, you’ve remembered your passport and guide book. You’re ready. You’re going on a journey, far away from everything you know. Who knows how long it will take and what you […]

Within the Space

P.E.-fossil. Darling of the fall. An image, like the shadow thrown at a moment when a child holds her breath lest she be seen and made first in line. A lot of my work is to do with childhood memories. […]

Drawing, something I am ambivalent about. I remember loving it when as a kid my friend Malcolm and I would try to copy all the comic characters we could. The bash street kids and Dennis the Menace. When we found […]

Yesterday spent wandering Hastings looking around the town with an eye to a venue for a metal Q Code – part of our guerilla campaign to raise awareness of our September ‘Telling Stories: Hastings’ show. Found what I thought was […]

I’m half way through reading Keats’s long poem ‘Endymion’, it really makes you want to go and stare at rivers or watch things in the woods.. his visual sense was astoundingly concentrated, but then he didn’t live in such a […]

Completed the installation of the pieces into the corridor. Made a last-minute adjustment to the lighting in the ‘sublime’ vitrine…it now looks right after matching the last light to the first 3. Completed the ‘blacking-out’ of the void interior and […]

I’ve just ordered postcards ready for the up and coming degree show, hopefully people will want to pick them up!

Installation tomorrow. Today I have been putting the sound bits into the tubes and had a trying day as I have discovered that a project conceived in January in the cold weather is not necessarily the same on a hot […]

Some more information about some of the artists taking part in our forthcoming exhibition, ‘Modern Madonnas’. Information about the dates, times and how to find us are given below. The private view is on Thursday 31 May, 6.30 – 8.30pm. […]

After the first half-hour of sitting back to fruit tree blindfold barefoot arms hands and upper body choreographed by birdsong we remained in silence but now not blindfold each participant was invited to record some of how they felt, heard […]

All this week I am posting information about our forthcoming exhibition, ‘Modern Madonnas’ and some background to the work of the artists selected for the show. It is a fascinating group of artists and we are thrilled to be working […]

Some progress. Last week at the Book Works studio we chose papers for the pages, cover and slipcase, looked at examples of debossing and made some decisions about the colour of the text. And agreed an alarmingly fine deadline for […]