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Making shapes: a kind of writing practice. But the pen’s still in the way.

Here we go again……another email scam. Do artists ever fall for these? Dear Wendy Williams, Your artwork has caught our eye and we are keen to exhibit your work in our galleries based in Mayfair, London and Paris. I would […]

Its that festive period where everything pauses. Before Christmas Annabel and I started putting together the Show&Tell Programme 2012 and delighted to have speakers Susan Collis, Virgina Verran, Freddie Robins, Alex Pearl, Cathy Lomax, Karl England Ben Street, Amy Mckenny […]

This is my entry for a drawing exhibition on the theme of SPEED in Artspace at Plymouth University in January 2012. I found the brief quite hard but then remembered this photograph and it seemed to sum up my attitude […]

Happy New Year everyone. With fresh starts and a big shake up of things in mind – I wanted to flag up this link: http://gigaom.com/2011/12/29/why-2012-will-be-year-of-the-artist-entrepreneur/ posted by @Anamariacida on twitter last week. It looks at ways in which (non-visual) artists […]

i volunteered to do the washing up today. quite a brave descision given that we’ve been doing lots of eating and drinking and enjoying watching dvds. to accompany me i chose some tangering dream from 1981, their poland work. i […]

Thank you David Riley, (A D V E R T I S I N G) your comments have inspired me to crack on. I will be writing out my ideas onto the surface of this box, then painting it over, […]

*’Oooooooooo – I am a lonely painter, I live in a box of paints…’ – well actually that’s not quite accurate, I’m sitting by the computer debating clearing out the studio and starting work again – and I’m not a […]

Feeling Reflective. 2011 has proved to be a very busy year for me, I started this blog concerned with how I could have a practice in the small amount of time I have after work and family take their share. […]

I just wrote a really long post on the Butterfly Park blog and just an image is up, nothing else, no idea why. Thought I’d try this blog too to see if its me or a-n gone wrong! Anyway….. 2012 […]

I was artist in residence for 2 years at this beautiful (unfunded) 5 acre nature reserve. Basing my MA project and Thesis upon my work there. I fell in love with it and was determined to stay working with them. […]

Doing this MA has its ups and downs, and sometimes I’m not sure which is which. I am itching to get going on a few things, but have a deadline on 4th January to hand in my Quilt-As-Essay research assignment, […]

From lots of initial ideas i’m starting to whittle them down to three..ish. So far I have spoken to Preston vegans about baking the biggest vegan cake on record , though im not sure how we can quantify it? I […]

Convergence is happening again. I’ve just read the Judith Barry interview in the December issue of Art Monthly Magazine, discussing …Cairo Stories with Omar Kholeif. I’m filled with questions about the personal/universal, which is a conversation I’ve just been having […]

Seven weeks before Supermarket and the search for sponsors is in full throttle now. With several venues in the UK now secured for the work to ‘tour’ to afterwards, we have something more substantial to offer potential sponsors. We will […]

After speaking to a few fellow artists I have begun to get the feeling that we all seem to share a similar relationship with our studio. It’s almost like a torrid love affair; passionate, intense, where sometimes I feel I […]

[Seduce and Destroy?] Notes on masculinity and failure #1: I am finding it difficult to visualise my detective character, it is something that I have been trying to bring to fruition for some time now. I don’t understand it, perhaps […]

[Seduce and Destroy?] Notes on masculinity and failure #2: In my search to define my detective character, I have begun to think about the notion of masculinity of which I aspire. The more I dwell upon it. The more I […]

First draft with a very small ‘matchstick’ camera, fixed to the pen itself. It needs sound. And what happens when the pen comes away from the page?

Looking back on a year of Studio 75 It’s nearly a year since we started up Studio75. It was last Christmas time that were in there stripping, painting and repairing the place to make it fit for purpose. In January […]

Sporting League: Game 27 Red Star have confirmed the official request to leave The Sporting League at the end of the 2011-2012 season. Red Star gaffer: ‘The financial situation is sucking the life out of our club. It would seem […]

Hope everyone has had a good christmas? Right I’m giving hand made gifts next year. We’ve all got too much stuff already. I’m going to have to get on with it now though not the week before. Decision made. It’s […]