Sorry that I havemn’t posted much on my an blog, life ….just like other fellow 3rd year students is pretty chaotic….I did post on my Art@41 blog….highlighting my final presentation and our degree show poster… two more weeks and then […]
Choreographed by Birds Barefoot Blindfold took place on Friday the 18th May at 5am. Anne-Marie Culhane and I were joined by nine others. From Anne-Marie ‘slow walking’ us into the recently planted orchard at the top of her new Fruit […]
I’ve just read Susan Jones’ Guardian article: Artists are struggling to make ends meet more than ever before. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-ne… I know things are a bit tough for everyone at the moment, which would also impact on the art world, but […]
‘Measure twice cut once’ is the slogan our tecnician has had printed on her brand new CFAP t-shirt! All other things not show related have gone out of the window in the past week, and pretty sure that this week […]
All this week work is arriving for our upcoming exhibition, Modern Madonnas. Several artist are visiting to install work. So it’s all rather exciting to see how peices work together and in the context of the architecture at St George’s […]
Last week as part of the Artist Educator course I gave a one off painting workshop within a secondary school with a year 7 class. I was fairly confident about the workshop idea and more worried about, well, me. It […]
I have been struggling with deciding the best way to display my work in the degree show. My work has been influenced by Phyllida Barlow’s use of space and the impact this has upon the audience, forcing them to participate […]
Degree Show and assessment is finally here. I have today and tomorrow to finalise set up ready to be marked and then it is celebration time! I have a room to display my pieces in, so after a lot of […]
At last the week of Jography has arrived and I have felt a release to get on with the project. Steve Gorton and I have made a video for YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTNcx1bGkQ And I have blogged http://jographyproject.blogspot.co.uk/ And tweeted @Jographyproject So […]
http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?SHARESHED=3… Voting starts today for the Shed of the Year 2012… please click on the above link, and vote as many times as you can! We would LOVE to win it this year, as we have worked so hard to […]
It’s been a hard day… I just posted this on my “Threads” blog, completely forgetting I had a Shed blog specially for these purposes! ah well…. vote again… can’t hurt can it? http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?SHARESHED=3… Voting starts today for the Shed of […]
Things have been pretty busy lately with my deadlines approaching. Last week I had to leave my studio, which has been my home for the last 9 months or so. I have been mainly concentrating on my photography work, which […]
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Neue Museum, Berlin. Field Notes Single footsteps, radio echos through the arched brick. Group enter with a low hum breaking the contemplative silence. Where one is looking adds to their interest. Photography a currency creating value. Low voices murmur and […]
It has been a month since I came back from Venice. During last four weeks I have been listening to 30 GB of sound material and backing it up on my cloud storage. It sounds so ephemeral but it gives, […]
I was so surprised and happy to receive one of the runner up prizes for writing this blog – I hadn’t even realised there was a competition. So a big thank you to A.N and to Great Art. Now it’s […]
Winter has been long and painful but still, I am standing! My main reason for being absent from this blog has been a much needed time to find paid work in order to insure the continuity of the project. We […]
Opening Night A fantastic opening night and we would like to say a very Big Thank you to all those who came. To date we have received extremely positive feedback. Please remember the exhibition runs until the 17th of June […]
I’ve been making flowers again- using different paper that I’m arguing with. It is far more flimsy and doesn’t hold it’s shape… logistics I will have to overcome I suppose. It’s all coming together nicely despite changing my idea ever […]
Busybusy couple of weeks starting with a stimulating and eclectic weekend of Performance Writing at Arnolfini, Bristol, and then ten days in Shetland, where landsounds and seaskylife make indelible marks: SKY massiveness cloud encompassing grey white towering blue bright lowering […]
FACEBOOK FIASCO I joined a Facebook group called ‘History of Hartlepool in Images’ … it has well over six thousand members and rising rapidly. It’s a great resource, started by a guy called Patrick Casey last September, and I have […]
One week to go and this last 2 weeks has been seriously busy, the making of 3 large pieces has been a real physical challenge. However, they are almost complete. The dressing of the vitrines (‘the difference between sublime and […]
