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Showing three pieces at Blackburne House, Liverpool from 5th to 30th December. I use my art practice to explore ideas about the continuous development of the soul. These three pieces express this concept using inspiration from maps, with contours, routes […]

ART POLITICS AND REVOLUTION: THE SHAMANIC PRACTICE OF DRAWING THE HORROR NAZIR TANBOULI, STUDIO 75 FROM 25 NOV – 25 DEC. the exhibition EYE CANDY by Egyptian born, London based Nazir Tanbouli presents very violent and disturbing themes, such as […]

Just starting this blog with a little trepidation as it will be concerned with the lead up to my final show. I will attempt to make it chatty and informative. It will be fed by my entries in the Critical […]

Tomorrow night we have the first pop up networking event in Stirling organised by Joe Hall, a young woman new to the area. She tells me it is already over-subscribed. We are delighted. For those of us who live in […]

The “Anatomy and Art” exhibition is now up, after considerable organisational problems. Some of the students had indeed disposed of their work (sounds better than “thrown away”, but that’s what they did). Another poor soul had had a disaster moving […]

Last week I went to Nottingham to attend the AIRInsights event at Surface gallery, hosted by Rosalind Davies and Helen Jones from Walsall, who curated my degree show back in 2008. Lots of insights into approaching curators, and developing relationships […]

I had been feeling a little down about my residency in the Cloakroom. I wasn’t sure why but I was feeling less and less like going there. My avoidance tactics where beginning to seem thinner and thinner. Waiting in for […]

Dreaming Spires Another visit to the Cloakroom today. The cress had rotted, to a sort of brown primeval soup and was beginning to smell. Annabel (on constant watch on my mental state) and I spent a little time scraping out […]

The end is nigh. The end of the first term, and a week more nigh for me than for everyone else in my group. Still, I did it to myself, and I’m not going to complain. My essay is complete […]

The Lab Model An animal model is a living, non-human animal used during the research and investigation of human disease, for the purpose of better understanding the disease without the added risk of causing harm to an actual human being […]

Trypanosoma and Darwin’s Disease Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Kinetoplastida), a group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa. The name is derived from the Greek trypano (borer) and soma (body) because of their corkscrew-like motion. All trypanosomes are heteroxenous […]

Sometimes I worry I’m too happy a person to be a great artist… its usually fairly shortlived, and I’m quite happy (there I go again) being myself but I do love the work of often quite tortured souls. What has […]

Yesterday, I made a mess. I participated in Sonya’s seminar, as she demonstrated her part in Guerilla Gastronomy. I was sat down with a pair of latex/vinyl gloves, a pair of safety goggles and a cardboard box placed carefully on […]

I took lots of my work over to Arena to display in my studio space to be seen alongside ‘Inner Beauty’ at the P.V. It’s all stuff you’ve seen before, but I think it’s quite interesting to see it all […]

(Hello ‘List of Work’, I love you!) Projects, edited… A recent comment has made me think that I should go some way to explaining these ideas. * Cloud Models:models of clouds in toy stuffing, scaled from photos to my eye […]

The Storey of the Wise King, The Castle Builder and the Magician (cont.) Now the magician knew there were some bricks in the land which had curses hidden within them. And if a cursed green brick which had been laid […]

so..the last two days I have been immersed in trying to etend the visa – we did this last month in Shanghai, and now this is our last visa extension. We had initially asked to get a six month visa […]

So. today back in a cab to give the final letter to the visa office. It rained last night, which cleared the buildup of smog, so for the first time – I saw clearly accross the yangste and the sprawling […]