It was such a mad week last week. I was really pleased that I was selected to put my work in the Boardroom at NGCA in September as part of the New Talent/Boardroom project between NGCA and the University of […]
DOORWAY :: WORK IN PROGRESS :: DOCUMENTATION 1…
when I looked at the sky it was wool Finally I’ve finished this project, but I’m not sure how I feel about it! Interesting though that it looks exactly how I envisioned it. Best leave it alone now for a […]
On Friday I exhibited two of my old paintings in Oriel Bach in Swansea where I’m from. I was a bit gutted I couldn’t put any of my current work into the show but it was pretty last minute and […]
As well as predictive flocks of birds.. there is hopefully a predictive bird for the spring and summer to come. A Glossy Ibis, is now residing in a swampy field in Borth mid Wales, I happened to be there for […]
These are two texts that were written several posts (months ago), they are now planned art works for a project entitle ‘Mobile Library’, for which I am developing a publication. Art works from blog posts – not a first for […]
I was accepted on the Cubitt School for Artist Educators and attended the first two days last week. I really like Cubitt’s ethos: The idea of lending participants the facilitator’s skills and creative stance. The more rewarding projects are longer […]
Using salt dough as sculptural and performative material… Salt + flour + water = PlayDough It also represents one of the most basic and primitive plastic artist materials (after perhaps: mud, dung and clay) As children we played with the […]
I have a tutorial tomorrow and for the first time in a long time I feel as though I know what I’m doing. I don’t feel burdened by grades, criteria, modules, marks, assessments or evaluations. Today yielded some good things, […]
Bought some Victor comics on ebay from 1966… In 1966 I was 11 and couldn’t wait each week for that flop on the doormat. Inside there was all manner of boy friendly content, from Alf Tupper ‘Tough of the Track’ […]
Stockholm Five days of living the life I would like to live. Just five days. Five days of describing myself as an artist without it sounding weird or pretentious. Five days of sharing ideas and thoughts….of saying ‘Yes – I […]
We were silent because we were both busy! Ruthie and myself took part in A time and a place project at SITE gallery in Sheffield. Details of this 2 week long exploration of patcipatory waters can be found here: http://blog.sitegallery.org/atimeandaplace/
This is going to be a blogful year! I have started my residency in Parson Cross (Sheffield) and I will be blogging about it on Yorskhire Artspace website. Check it out: http://artspace.org.uk/residency-journal/src/resid… And if you live nearby and wish to […]
That was a long break from the blog, but I have been busy on the project; with interuptions of course. The Masters degree took up a bit of time finishing the histories and theories module, that and my teaching commitments. […]
Sunday 19 February. A day of doubt but only a mild ?Black Dog? of a day. One of the worst feelings for an artists is doubting your own work, doubting its quality and fearing ones entire creative life if pointless, […]
Monday 20 February. Glorious sunshine. The mountains are back again looking majestic like a bride in white. The mountains are like the changing seas, are always different. Sometimes they even go on holiday and are not seen for days then […]
With Kinetica and half term over, today I had to face my studio. As space is at a premium I had the usual task of infinate juggling -old work/new work – partly finished/resting work – stuff, stuff and more stuff. […]
Painting, Architects and exhibitions have all been the story of the week…..well so much has happened since the last posting. It’s almost as though I’m about starting this off again, but too much has happened and too much has been […]
Painting It will be right to say that I’m going round in circles, round and round. I get consumed by an intense sense of belonging. Continuity in ; colour, pattern and form. It is a continuous flow that allows faults, […]
The body becomes a machine, that links the self to the outer-other-self. It turns my human into the Artist, this Artist has no genre I’m neither woman nor man, no race of specific individual value, not black and not white. […]
On Monday 5th March 2012 I will leave the Premier Inn, Thurrock West close to the M25 to begin The Great Orbital Ultra Run. Running anti-clockwise, close to the boundary, I hope to complete the circuit in 9 days. This […]
BA (Hons) Ceramics and Glass, specialising in ceramic figurative art.
Fine Art (BA Hons) ‘The course enables students to develop and produce challenging contemporary artworks that often emphasise audience and context, and investigate the role of the artist in the 21st century’.
TODAY TODAY TODAY: I’m giving an artist talk at Modern Art Oxford this afternoon at 3pm in the Project Space. Do come along! I’m going to describe the processes I’ve been developing in step with this blog and in the […]
Preliminary sketch for drawing to measure 1.5m x 1.5m. Heligmosomoides polygyrus is a common nematode found in the duodenum and small intestine of woodmice and other rodents. It is often used to model human helminth infection in laboratory mice. These […]
