UNIVERSITY OF INCIDENTAL KNOWLEDGE STAFF SHOW Wednesday 28th March 2012 Westgate Studios, Wakefield The University of Incidental Knowledge is a collaboration based on a higher education model, incorporating self-directed and peer-to-peer learning. Incidental Knowledge is acquired by chance; through the […]
Well, I have now submitted both of my pieces to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme, so there’s no going back. They are: One Minute Birdwatching, at West Princes Street Gardens (meet by fountain), 9.30am and 1.30pm daily, Saturday 4th – […]
It’s springtime; the human instinct compels us to procreate to ensure the survival of the species. Artists making art now question the fruits of their creation. Creating new perceptions rather than new life our activities are called into question by […]
Easter Day, which for the second time in the last 5 years co-incides with my son’s birthday. My son made it clear that the biggest and best birthday present he could possbly have would be to have both his parents […]
Tate Modern, London
4 April 2012 to 9 September 2012
This long weekend off gives me an opportunity to combine some well deserved time off, with a more leisurely approach to my work. I don’t want another stressful month like last month, in which I had to spend almost every […]
March was busy We held an Open Studio at of the opening of “Mises en Scene” by Anthony Noel Kelly on Thursday 15th March 2012. I had a group show open on until 19th April at SW1 gallery near Victoria […]
In celebration of record store day on April 21st I have begun a painting of a rack of Compact Discs at Rough Trade. http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/ Painting over a deep titanium ground very simply and tonally, whilst listening to a lot of […]
I’ve started this off, because the other two are so busy at the moment, I’m the one with a bit of free time, over the holiday. We’ve spent ages discussing exactly how we should do this, but actually, in the […]
New website nearly done, just a bit of tweaking needed. hold tight! Watch this space!
Where to begin? I was thinking about pasting in snippets of our first conversations but I’ve decided to write about how I remember things coming together instead. I’m not going to talk to much about what I think now about […]
That’s the first week in our Comma Project shop over. I’m sat here now, we’ve had a good few people in over the course of the week but only about 4 today, need may more. It’s still in the planning […]
Thank you for the offer of a cup of tea Elena, but may I have a coffee? I don’t drink tea! You see…we know eachother so well and then again not at all. Well. Here we three all are at […]
Relocation Relocation Relocation A big part of rebuilding and refocusing my practice has seen me think about where I want to be based. The questions that I have asked myself have been what is best for me? What is best […]
Just back from the studio and my fingers are stiff with cold. It is freezing out there. I had the dog with me and walking him home was enough to get really cold. He is getting used to the studio […]
Well. The Secret Project has been exposed! Julie Dodd, Franny Swann and little old me, we’ve started a group blog. It stems from an email conversation that started a while back, that may, or may not, lead up to us […]
‘I have an unquiet mind’ Nazereen in Brick Lane. I am not happy. It seems as though I have a puzzle in my head where many strings are knotted and I must untangle the right one to get to the […]
Had word from the Welsh retreat centre I visited last autumn. A sculpture trail is on the cards. Not having heard from them for a few months I’d naturally thought the crazy insects I’d made from the toilet seats and […]
Nice? Writing my previous post I began to see more clearly the way in which I was using the term as a pejorative. I have used ‘nice’ as an unqualified shorthand confirmation of my prejudices, partly class based. The distinction […]
Not sure what I have to say today other than as usual everything goes to pieces over any holiday period. I don’t know why I even try to do anything as I just end up getting extra frustrated when plans […]
Arrived in Vienna, started my visit by meeting with the curator of the Tonspur project www.tonspur.at Georg Weckwerth in the Museum Quartier – MQ www.mqw.at. Georg showed me around his new exhibition co-curetted with Jozef Cseres “Membra Disjecta for John […]
Aha! I see a bit of a problem… Franny (well I presume Franny) has just written “Fish Fingers!” on David Minton’s blog. Trouble is, because she was logged in to write here, it says it’s me that wrote it. Now […]
Well we still have an e-mail conversation going on behind the scenes…going to be interesting to see if we actually transfer all our conversations to the public arena. Have just received this from Elena… ‘There… blog blogged, tweeted and posted […]