The school is closed to most people for the holidays, but final year students can come in to work. I’ve done three days this week, trying to keep a momentum of work going. The week before I built another large […]
Oh yes. Stitches can be unpicked. I have the thought in my head quite a lot of the time, “oh yes” I say to my tutor, “unpick-ability is very important to me”. We nod sagely. But have I ever unpicked […]
Aha! I have just submitted my ACE application. there was a scary moment when I thought I’d deleted it all but no – I’ve just had an email! Phew! After 6 months of planning it’s finally off! I really have […]
Relationships. Relationships are such a vital point to my work, I thought it’s best to mention my relationship with two of my favourite artists: Michael Dean, an artist from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has an exhibition opening at the Henry Moore Institute, […]
The power of studio photography. Some pics of cubes just out of kiln, and bowls. The first MOSE exhibition is set in the future (3,800) a mere 1,788 years from now (that is if the calendar is even the same […]
It’s day four and I’m coming to the end of the first week of the residency. The sun is out today. We’ve had more people coming in and for the first time a volunteer has come by to help promote […]
After 3 months of running around like a blue-arsed fly, things are easing off and I have some time for reflection. The autumn was a time of little computer work, scraping together the bare minimum from the few jobs that […]
Yesterday, a photographic shoot beneath flyovers along the A55, M56 and M6 completed the supporting work for the ‘Secession and Uniformity’ vitrine. This line of work began by ‘finding’ the extraordinary space beneath the Llandudno Junction flyover on the A55 […]
Hello again. Iv’e been busy making more paper filigree work for my installtion. Its amazing what a simple medium like paper can do and the effect it can have…a strip of paper is transformed into a flower, star, snowflake, amoeba […]
STARTING ART WORK by Fliss Watts, artist of the People of the Eye collective 5th March 2012 Initial thoughts on this project: It’s quite unlike anything I’ve done before so I’m feeling very tentative at this point – also though […]
I keep expecting to get a phone call from the Chapel Gallery, informing me that my installation has been trampled on…. I find that the Easter breaks are generally hell in Art Galleries and some parents seem to think its […]
Day #3 It’s day 3 of the residency and the space is pretty quite apart from the odd visitor. Over the past few days I have been located at the front of the space playing what seems to be my […]
I have had my last session at uni for the Spring term. I’ve suddenly realised that after the Easter break, there are only three weeks until the hand in of our dissertation and catalogue. This is nerve wracking stuff! In […]
Scribbling this blog longhand on a train bound for London, I can use the time to reflect on the week gone by and the day ahead – and hope that no one sits next to me. This trip in itself […]
Sporting League Results: Game 5 Pointeso showed their new defensive credentials with a plucky performance away to Novia. Novia boss: ‘We threw all but the kitchen sink at ‘em but they’ve got a much tighter back four this time around. […]
In Certain Places Presentation and The Preston Beer Festival. Quite a succesful day presenting our ideas to a panel which included Charles Quick and Elaine speight from In Certain Places, Clarissa Corfe from the Castfiled Gallery, Ruth McCullough from AND […]
I have been so busy with the marathon training and organising the Epsom Common residency that i have neglected Jography. The Epsom Common trial title is “Walking Boundaries’ and I have a meeting next week about the shape it will […]
Today we are in the old town of Bratislava “Stare Mesto”. The town has been strongly influenced by different nations such as Slovaks, Hungarians, Austrians and the Jewish population. During the 16th C to 18th C it was the capital […]
My blogging has all but disappeared. I have a strange feeling of losing all energy and motivation, in and out of a painter’s limbo. This painting is a reflection of that state. Whenever I don’t know what to do, I […]
Gog and Magog I met a bloke on the golf course today who asked me if I had been intimadated by a tatooed man living in the Club House? Now you mention it, a tatooed man in a 4X4 did […]
