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“The work of the hand is the first and last consideration in the expression of art in metal work of any kind. When such is adequately given, the result is always sufficient to justify its existence. There is no art […]

Almost ready!

As my resisidency approaches I realise that a commitment needs to be made. So far I have been taping the work together. Just little bits of tacky masking tape holding the whole 180cm wide structure together. Every trip to the […]

Interview with Lois Maude Blacklock, ceramic artist and history buff. Use five words to describe your work Fragile, Emotive, Vacant, unpolluted, melancholy o What makes your work different from everybody else’s? I guess everyone is always surprised when I explain […]

Today I received news that my funding application for my proposal for Frequency Festival 2013 wasn’t successful. I had some serious doubts last week that if it wasn’t I would just give up the LAN completely. I’m bogged down with […]

Train 595Paul Conneally 2012Apprpriated Oasis Wet Foam and Pearl Headed Pins http://littleonion.posterous.com/train-595-from-me… Train 595 was recovered by myself and Maurice Maguire from a rubbish skip in a church graveyard. Train 595 – some have already railed against my use of […]

Stacy Phillips – Installation “I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing” Anais Nin

Emily Chadwick – Film “Simulations, in the form of images and the media have replaced reality, creating a new hyperreality” – Jean Baudrillard

My brand new website is now live. Check it out! www.10bearsart.co.uk

Here’s the plan. Finish the four paintings I’m still working on, frame them, call that side of it finished. Figure out how to make a bucketload of soap from scratch, buy the materials, make a soap Philip. Sounds easy enough. […]

Okay, I have started this blog to document my experiences post NFBP (New Ferry Butterfly Park) which will act as a useful aid to keep me motivated and working as part of that young-white-middle-class-overworked-underpaid group. I want to start by […]

I was thinking today if aesthetics or linguistics have a bigger drive in artists’ practice. Meaning that aesthetics in terms of being able to understand and accept the work as a object that sets out to convey an idea or […]

I have managed to finish off my recent book editions on the residency at MMU. The square bound concertina books ‘On the way’ which are screenprinted and printed with woodblocks, I have managed to press, and also the two printed […]

This week I bear exciting news… I’ve been offered a residency! It’s in my old foundation course, and I get to do a bit of teaching as well as my own work, which is a dream come true for me. […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about possible degree show ideas recently – and having researched about the the Mexican festival of the Day of the Dead – I really wanted to encorporate some of the visual imagery associated with the […]

Tomorrow will my first making session for the project. Despite several niggles I have prepared all the materials, and have some (now working – phew) samples of the ‘fruit’. Sound still needs finalising but this will be for me to […]

During my car journeys today I have been pondering upon the complexities of autobiographical work and problems therein. What do you do if you want to make work about your life or aspects of it but don’t want to have […]

We have had really positive day of introductions and presentations today and I think we have established a really positive bond with the BYU students and staff. I had asked my students and colleagues to each give me an image […]