Tapies is dead. It was with a profound loss I heard today of the death of Antoni Tapies. I still remember that ‘shock of recognition’ when I first saw Tapies’ work back in the 60s. Very few artists have ever […]
Waiting…… the frustrating part of ACE funding ( well, one of several frustrating things!) . There are a few bits we need to sign off, but need the money to come through to do it. For all out there who […]
Following a meeting with those kind official folks that are helping me set this thing up, I’m now knee deep in information on organisational stuctures and sample constitutions. Have decided to ring round a few folks I know who are […]
Passive aggressive posting shall be kept to a minimum from now on. I suppose it’s bound to happen whilst blogging, sharing both frustration and inspiration. I think a lot of it has to do with feeling undervalued, when people aren’t […]
(BA) Fine Art Sculpture and Time Based media at Manchester School of Art.
BA Fine Art (Painting)
I had a wonderful studio day yesterday. I really like being surprised by my own work and I was. I also received a mention on twitter yesterday from Donnalee Downs, which sent me to her blog, Gone Postal. I had […]
This walk is the least stimulating walk I do. I have several walks and the golf course is the most boring. I never meet anyone……except once I did see a guy with a set of clubs practicing his golf, this […]
I’ve been working on a project which revolves around the idea of the loss of innocence. In the summer my mum became ill and I no longer felt any comfort at my childhood home. I especially felt that it was […]
Do you have an emotional attachment to a table or chair or couch or stool that others find hard to understand? Can you drop me a quick email about your misunderstood furniture? Just let me know if you would prefer […]
Had a wonderful walk in the snow yesterday: took loads of pix. People are dying in Russia because of extreme temperatures and we here have the luxury of looking out on sunshine, snow and picturesque scenes. I don’t know how […]
I am really not winning here.I have spent all morning organising the Sevenoaks Art Forum that I run. By the time I have walked the dog in our beautiful snow filled woods this afternoon the light will be going and […]
Apologies for the dry spell, just over a week ago I handed in the dissertation and then had a very well timed university trip to Amsterdam, two days afterwards. My dissertation title ended up being “The Relationship between the Poetry […]
I spent the whole of last night deleting accounts, linking accounts, reblogging, retweeting, reposting, changing links, uploading images, adding followers and posting information about our degree show online only to find out that people still aren’t satisfied. I posted the […]
I’ve been making, as I promised myself, and here are some photos of the first stitched shadow. Rubbish photos as always, much too yellow… apologies! Hands, around the sleeve of a child’s dress, grasping perhaps… or guiding? I think the […]
Last term for our interim presentations I experimented with installation. Blind Room was the result. At the time I had been looking a lot at the control of the artist over the spectator with works that require a more active […]
Cold and impersonal. I’ll put a couple of my own pieces on the record in order to raise some issues that may remain prominent. One of my main interests in Modernism arose, I think, when as a youth, studying art […]
That people are willing to become participants to installations such as Blind Room, that are disorientating and create feelings of panic or fear, shows the power of the gallery space on the actions of the spectator. Would you, for example, […]
Today’s prize goes to MultiScreener. I’m going to shamelessly plug it. It’s a piece of software I downloaded for free this afternoon and it lets me exactly synchronize two Quicktime videos across multiple screens from one computer (or from several […]
I’m now feeling a strange mix of nervousness and relief. My work is up at Kinetica and I am really please with how it looks. Considering the trials and tribulations that got it there the actual hanging of the work […]
It is absolutely freezing outside. I have just returned from an incredibly insightful and all round exhilarating event presented by both OVADA and Roves and Roams. The night included a stunning performance by Anya Liftig as well as a fascinating […]
My aim from doing an art degree is to eventually become an art teacher, I have a passion for the subject that I want to share with others, inspiring them and helping nurture the passion and love of art in […]
This week I have been continuing to prepare my canvas boards for screen printing onto next week. I have painted them “light portrait rose” which I would describe as baby pink. One comment I had today is that they were […]
