I can’t help it. I’m a teacher. I have been for a very long time. It’s not surprising then that a focus on learning should be central to my MFA practice-based research. I am forcing myself to learn new things. […]
one hour of my life
In response to my last post, David Minton’s comment about not getting “in the way of delight” has really stuck with me. I think, if it’s ok with David, I might use this phrase somehow. It has melded in my […]
episode eleven of creative conversations. sees me talking too two artists, ivon oates and David Rogers, about a collaboration that involved them working with young people from Portland Rocks. http://creativedialog.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/cre… We hear about how their sound installation ‘Impossible Architexture’ came […]
David Hockney at the RA surprised me. I was fortunate to go with the Leighton Project students who I work with through Action Space. We had such a great day thanks to the RA running access workshops. The exhibition was […]
This afternoon’s pithering about.
Yesterday was the Art School Galleries of the Future Conference at AUCB. In the morning I was working in the cloakroom which was a great opportunity to meet the speakers and delegates. One of the most interesting characters of the […]
Studio visit to New York Artist – Thornton Willis Thornton Willis is a living link with the great New York art scene of the 40’s, 50’ and 60’s. Thornton lives in his New York loft in Soho just a stones […]
3min blog #3 Much of my life seems to be about trying to eke out time where no time exists… quickly sewing something whilst food cooks – making my promotional bags 10 at a time in quick snatched bursts whilst […]
In a previous entry (#6) I wrote about Becka Viau’s scribbles – well-practiced lines at the heart of works she was creating as part of a This Town is Small/City Nights performance in July, 2011. Recently, I attended a lecture […]
On Monday I’m moving into the Project Space at Modern Art Oxford. At that point I’ll have two weeks to prepare new work for an exhibition that opens in the third week. This calls for a list. – all the […]
Continuing from my last blog, which discussed how I make use of painting as part of my fine art practice, I wanted to look at the role of painting in photography practice. I prefer to shoot on black and white […]
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