The thaw began as I was travelling back, the colours of the landscape gradually emerged. I was amazed at the size of the fields in the Czech Republic I thought it must be stunning when all the crops are fully […]
I wonder how many conversations go on behind the Artists Talking curtain so to speak? I occasionally have e-mail conversations with artists who having read my blog e-mail me rather than post…maybe if you know someone well it seems oddly […]
I’m afraid I’m going to have to be a Moaning Myrtle here for a minute or two. I won’t describe all my woes as it’s boring even to me, but tomorrow is the deadline for telling the curator what we’re […]
plan for today: step one: start little paper people. step two: write proposal to use piano instead of keyboard for P.V. step three: work out exactly how to write a proposal. step four: send plan to tutors.
From nuclear disaster to a cat cafe… Tokyo is full of weird and wonderful experiences – one of which is the Hapi Neko or Cat Cafes. Here for a 1,000 yen (£8) for half an hour you can spend time […]
Two Maps Two maps showing things I did on my walk ‘over the the golf course’ today.
I’m not sure to what extent one should use ones art or ones blog as personal therapy. I have used my work as a way of exploring the relationship between me and my mother, and me and my children. It […]
This blog will be used as a tool for monitoring and deciding upon curating decisions leading up to the Sheffield Hallam University degree show “spectrum” Update: Curating team to split into 4 groups to identify individual proposals suitability to exhibit […]
Now then. Today the Modern Art Oxford publication. My brief is to create something on paper that follows on from the video work I made for ‘Keeping Time’. I’ve decided I want to take forward the relationship between the making […]
So my feeling that I need to improve my “web presence” has been compounded by a friend contacting me through Axis Web yesterday saying that it is about time I updated my status. Well I have taken it all on […]
Two weeks ago I found a wonderful old slide projector in a charity shop, a few days later and in another charity shop I found an old portable manual typewriter. Except for needing to replace the ribbon in the typewriter […]
Been working on a few prototypes for larger pieces… work in progress. Based on images from my video RSA4. Something I found useful was photographing them during the early stages then altering the luminosity, contrast and colour saturation in photoshop… […]
Looking back on the initial blog entry I’m now wondering whether The Museum of Space Exploration is just a mere ‘conceit’. Definitions include:/ a fanciful thought or idea/an extravagant fanciful and elaborate construction or/ the result of intellectual activity. Seesaw […]
Finally we’ve been moving into our new studio! There have been a few initial teething problems and the workman have had to be called in again but hopefully this is just a minor hiccup and should be back on track […]
Networks and networking – there are so many of them. Do we need another network; what is specific about all the different networks. I seem to be in a world composed of networks within networks. Yesterday DAD organised a networking […]
I’m in the dark place. It’s no good in the dark place. I don’t want to work because I’m getting all churned up about making something that’s not good. I don’t visit the dark un-trusting place often these days. I’m […]
there were two lakes close by which were frozen solid and covered in snow, each day tracks could be seen across them made by cross country skiers. I walked around the lake each evening and saw the light change dramatically […]
A magical garden in Viterbo, Italy..
Right. The Farningham Hobby Horse Project goes into the Kaliedoscope Gallery on Tuesday. Its been a bit mad really – getting stands made, painting them, gaffa taping them, getting vinyls made, putting up posters…….Ros Barker and I seem to have […]
In Process Residency – Day Four Ended today with the feeling that I am just getting started. Polly Cruse from Satellite Artists spent the most part of today arranging work in the space in a new way and with a […]
Significant Form. In 1913 Clive Bell published a little treatise called ‘Art’ in which he argued that all works of art must have a common denominator – what he goes on to define as ‘significant form’. This idea has meant […]
Collaborate Working together, especially in a joint intellectual effort Or To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one’s country The first definition seems so positive, altruistic; combining skills and knowledge to achieve greater things. Admirable! The second […]
Here are my digital collages revisited (as seen in a previous post), with some changes made.
This is a fictional Auction House I created, which sells items with a questionable value. Displayed are a few images of the auction booklet.
Leg 5: Premier Inn, Kings Langley to The Tower Arms Hotel, Iver. (17.9 miles approx.) Today’s leg was the second longest so really tested my endurance and boy did I feel it. I ended up coming in just as it […]