Today has been a really good day at the studios. I’ve completed a few more pieces, made my space more comfortable and more mine with a table to work at, a cushion and my favourite mug!! My space looks quite […]
Overwhelmed: I took part as a panelist on an online Q&A’s thing today http://bit.ly/vxPq11 And the nature of this event makes you feel like your suposed to know the answers to the questions. I read about people trying to establish […]
Do I see then paint or see when I paint? Does the painting replicate the seeing experience? Does the painting need to be anchored in the seeing experience? Just a few of the self directed questions from my mid-term tutorial […]
Listening: Ryan Adams, Dave Matthews, Lisa Hannigan’s new cd, Sizer Barker, REEEEALLLLY old Tom Waits. Cheerful huh? Noticing: Botanical detail in my compost, fluidity (or not) of other people’s handwriting Reading: Eavan Boland’s Night Feed, Lots of lyrics Writing: Bloggery, […]
The past two days have been great. The participatory sessions with blind and visually impaired people took place, and I am thrilled with how they went. The failure of one of the large organisations to step up to the mark […]
11.11.11 At 7pm tonight, we have the end of exhibition talk for Slow Turning, a beautiful exhibition featuring ceramic sculpture by Liz Ellis, paintings and drawings by Wendy Dison and the background story to their collaboration. If I can find […]
Hooray! I had a letter from the tax office saying that I’m now registered for tax and VAT in Sweden. Hopefully it’s a useful stage in getting myself “fully” registered here and getting that all-important personal number. I looked at […]
I’ve skipped to the proposal part of the application now as I feel more comfortable in what I have to say there. Two hours yesterday and two this morning have taken me to 1000 words – half of what I […]
Finished. This last week I have been preparing the presentation for the talk to Bangor U3A next week, “German Romanticism, Minimalism and the Sublime” and it is now done. I plan to leave it until Monday or Tuesday, then have […]
Interesting, just editing my latest version and again have been asked to cut out remarks that could hinder peoples chances of future commissions. People have felt comfortable in talking openly to me, but once given a chance to listen to […]
On my morning run over the damp and quite nippy stretches of both Tooting and Streaham commons I had a moment of insight. I have been so caught up with ‘Jography’ I have forgotten all the people who make it […]
Sporting League 2010 – 2011 Game 12 Bayerns and Tranquilayers extended the gap at the top to five points with victories over Lunderbach and Yop Lane respectively. Sporting Radio pundit X: ‘I think, maybe, the ol’ Yoppites game the Trankies […]
Working collaboratively – journeys through current projects.. It has been a busy time – reflected in how little I have been able to blog recently. Several substantial projects appeared, started and developed within a few short weeks of each other […]
I have returned from installing ‘One Room Living’ with fellow artist Lois Williams and curator Martin Barlow. The show, in the main exhibition hall Tbilisi State Art Academy, is our contribution to the international art event Artisterium IV in Tbilisi […]
Planning the blocking-up of the lime planks took up most of Tuesday’s studio time, and left only a frenzied forty-five minutes to actually start laminating the wood. Going in a few days later to finish the job on my own […]
The box of work had arrived safely; however, we had unfortunately each put a nominal value of £100 on our work for the commercial invoice and this meant we incurred a £100 surcharge at customs to add to the already […]
The plinths wre finally ready on Monday the 31st and I could begin installing gimme shelter in earnest. In contrast to Lois’s installation, mine was really straightforward with a grid pattern of parquet floor to aid placement of the plinths […]
The penultimate day we installed the vinyl leaving just labels for the day of the opening though things ran close to the wire. One of the more unusual aspects of the install was having students playing the grand piano in […]
I had work today, so not much time for anything else but I’ve completed quite a few ‘inner beauty’ pieces. It’s strange how different these pieces are from each other, probably not noticable to anyone else but over time my […]
A Project Space trip out to view St Margaret’s Church, Cley. This was to provide a context for the inaugural Queen of Hungary talk on the 24th. Isabel Vasseur will, amongst other things, discuss her vision and approach to curating […]
As the visual arts officer in Halton, based at the Brindley Arts Centre in Runcorn, I manage a wide variety of projects, curate exhibitions and work with many interesting artists. There’s always so much going on that it’s difficult to […]
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