We have moved into an apartment – indoor stadium area, about five stops out from People’s Square. It has two bedrooms and 2 bathroom – so Pablo is in Heaven. He has overtaken our bedroom as the designated play room. […]
Pawn and Rook Tommorow I hope to work on my Red Indians. I shall be a Rook for a day. Setting my own agenda and I guess leading up to what will eventually be a game of cowboys and indians, […]
Application process for The Practicalities of Documentation, 10/11/11 Michael Mayhew, 168 Platt Chapel, Manchester. http://www.inremembrance.org.uk/ This exchange of insights, skills, knowledge, experiences, reflections on the issues and actuality of the documentation of performance practice is part of. This exchange invites […]
G O N E P O S T A L: I am pleased to see my folders of solicited images filling up. I am, however, profoundly jealous* of Martin O’Neill’s http://cutitout.co.uk/about vast archive http://cutitout.co.uk/studio/studio I have to rethink the scale […]
Tried to post this under comments, but too long!! Being a bit obsessive, every time I try to think about something like this, I quickly get to a point where I need to go off and study for a year […]
Milly Thompson has just visited the studio. As usual I talked through my older work and then moved on to the newer pieces I have been doing at Standpoint. She felt that what I (maybe the work) projected most of […]
creative conversations is getting a great reception and i have been pleasantly surprised with the reception i’ve received and the amount of listeners so far – to what i thought might be a bit too dry radio show. After all […]
Well today was my first day as resident Artist. I didn’t sleep well last night through excitment and being nervous. But I had nothing to worry about. The studio manager showed me around and talked me through everything I needed […]
Were as the months gone, lots as happen. My daughter gone to New Buckingham University. So I have spent a lot of the Summer working lots of extra Hours to save some money to get all house hole stuff she […]
Sporting League 2010 – 2011 Game 9 The match between Sporting leaders Bayerns and Tranquilayers finished as a two – two draw. Sporting Radio Pundit X: ‘I was thinkin’ that that game had a draw written all over it. You […]
Projects and preoccupations: Bike wheel structures Birds Divers
From a conversation I had yesterday, whilst I was knee-deep in panic about my love-lorn insecurities …I realised something about my detective character, or rather my desire to don the guise of man. It was something I used to make […]
A love letter to Nabakov I like to hold it up to my nose, pressing myself into its spine so I can smell the stench of the black ink impregnated within its pulped pages. A shiny surface, indented and scratched […]
(Please read the previous post first!) A love letter to Nabakov continued…. ….I secretly enjoy being fetishized, something I should not admit. I love to be adored, and pampered and preened. Wearing little dresses, my shoe tied. Can I relate […]
New blog for a new start. I found out this week that I’ve been appointed to one of the Directors posts at my studio, Arena Studios and Gallery in Liverpool. In 2012 we have our 30th anniversary as a succesful […]
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Every now and then something happens that acts as a wake up call , makes you think that……actually I’ve been in cotton wool world and the padding has gone now and you feel the chill winds of………. ‘this is how […]
One thing leads to another… the Art on Armitage exhibition “Plastic World” at HMS looks set to travel to Durham and another exchange. And… a conversation with Mary Ellen has ignited another potential collaboration. The seeds are sown for more […]
Alison, Tara and Frances ran a children’s draw and print workshop at Oriel Ynys Mon. This was part of the Big Draw project. After a slow start it was a great success with 13 children in the morning and 12 […]
As so often happens in building a piece, when you put your hands onto the intended materials your brain starts to go somewhere else. The container for ‘stone in the fog’ was to have been made with 10mm MDF but […]
In addition to the usual posters and stuff, I have ordered large print and braille info sheets for the exhibition, and learnt in the process that there are two types of braille available. In working on various aspects of this […]
I found out today that I can start a month long residency at Arena Studios in Liverpool, with the use of a studio space and with an exhibition at the end of the residency (begining of December). I’m travelling over […]
I have just had a studio visit from Ingrid Swenson who runs Peer. I feel fortunate to have spoken to her as they are currently showing a fantastic updating or re-evaluation of John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum, which is […]
As my week of freedom came to an end, I made use of Friday to kill a few birds with one train trip to London. I wasn’t entirely sure about whether I would or not, even up to the very […]
Since I was accepted on my Arts Management MA back in May, I have been explaining to people, when asked, what my course entails. Being in a studio at the time and in regular contact with fellow artists, I had […]
