Again I can’t really remember what was in my last post but I’m fairly certain I had started both my my residencies so I’m going to talk about what I’ve been up to this week… Monday I was working at […]
Continued working as shown here on the Dickens manuscript proof painting from the current Dickens display at the V&A national art library. All 3 manuscript paintings are now at a stage to being finished together and displayed.
Stephen Fry/ Care Bear with Blind Reconstruction Drawings My starting point is an image from Heat, a pap of Stephen Fry wearing a Care Bear head. I’m fascinated with the concept of reconstruction and initially decided to straight forward photograph […]
Today’s post could be about the work in the studio, but that would be too depressing. An entire day preparing to make the first of 3 sections of the rubber mould of Phil’s sculpture gone to waste. All my smugness […]
This being a student lark, at my age, is a strange beast. I’m wondering how I might cope after September, without the structure of course tutorials to hold me on track. Yesterday I had a short feedback tutorial after the […]
Dissertation… finished! Just have to get it printed, bound and handed in, which, knowing my luck, will not go entirely smoothly. It’s nice to have it out of the way, but the fact that dissertation time is coming to an […]
I am at the point of being very close to finishing my dissertation. It has been a long but exciting journey, and theory has really inspired my practical work as well as my writing. I am researching on our proximity […]
In looking at what attracts and repels I have been experimenting with jewel shapes and how I can mould debris into these. The structure allows the matter to be viewed in an alternate way, and the whole concept of an […]
Great idea, shame it’s been done. A few weeks ago I finally got started on an idea for a photo-series I’d had about five years Before Art School. I had been (kind-of) already doing it for the past three or […]
Fine Art
My practice and the importance of trying new things I spent the first year of my studio practice making a few different types of work: I made short films of my actions, like Shouting Hello to France; I used photography […]
Last week I attended a talk regarding the potential for progress by the journalist and writer John-Paul Flintoff who discussed the ideas of philosophers, alongside his own bizarre and inspiring adventures such as making underpants from stinging nettles. During WWI […]
This is the point where the haikus, devoid of their physical presence become conceptual. The Friends of the Botanic Garden newsletter will publish an article in their Spring issue. Readers will be asked to imagine the place where the haikus […]
I am still shop-less to date, viewed an applied for 2 potentials and have written to the owner of a third, just have to play the waiting game now. Plans are still moving on though, I have signed the Council […]
This is our next event at the space. The demand for these more in-depth sort of classes seems to have been demonstrated by the fact that it is almost fully booked. Good news. DRAWING MASTERCLASS FOR ARTISTS Saturday 21st January […]
I started this blog when I lost my studio but this week I have been feeling the loss of something else. The book I applied for from New York City as part of the Sketchbook Project is nowhere to be […]
I.B.Tauris, London
1 – 31 January 2012
I am shocked that my asialink residency in China has come to an end. Its been an amazing time, where I have felt like I have lived here, and its strange to think about leaving and to think about life […]
We headed to Shanghai after that – I had an idea that I wanted to explore performed emotion – a few businesses in China are teaching their staff to smile in a ‘western’ way. They do this training via using […]
Looking back over the three months in china and how it has fed into my work – it provided time to move away from a technology based practice and focus again on video, as well as move into new areas […]
Anyone else feel like they dropped the ball over Christmas? I seem to have had various viruses/colds and probably should have made more effort to take some time off. Think I am back on top of correspondance etc now – […]
04-15 Continued working on the photocopy manuscripts and the original manuscript. Each page is stamped in a double oval ‘Forster Bequest’ at the V&A. The original vibrant red bindings were bound for/by his Geordie friend Forster, the manuscripts were rebound […]
