Untitled blog post from "Shared Ground"
Thurstaston
Thurstaston
Its time now for me to start thinking through my own book ideas. I need to get moving so that I can be working on it whilst whilst continuing to teach and support everyone else and this wont be easy! […]
I often ponder: “What is it about my practice that separates it from the conceptual mainstream?”. I keep coming back to this point: my work is not “about” ritual and the sacred. It is ritual and sacred. My work is […]
At my most fatigued I can only be. Lie somewhere, motionless, without speech, an old rusty submarine sunk to the bottom of a stoic sea. During such periods my art (and my writing) become a rickety periscope which sometimes appears […]
A Bank holiday weekend probably means a nice long rest for some people. Sadly I’m not one of them. I worked yesterday and am working tomorrow, but fortunately – especially fortunate as the weather is good….I am off today. Not […]
Final Paintings. I’m working on the last few paintings before my cutoff date, to give them time to dry. One with the working title “Crime Season” is on its way, and interestingly I’ve moved away from oil paint all together […]
I first met with the poets Matthew Clegg, Chris Jones and the photographer Karl Hirst to discuss this new creative collaboration – to be entitled Tissues and Organs – in Site Cafe, Sheffield in mid December 2011. Chris and I […]
Sorry both, I can’t believe I’ve missed so much, I only went away for one night! … It’s great to be number 1, but I had a thought, do you think it could be the three of us doing all […]