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Went to drinks at Brian Wallace’s apartment on Sunday night. Laurens Tan and Feabe came by with their driver to pick us up – we then met up with doug lewis and Jean Klimack (currenlty exhibiting at Where Where Space). […]

organising Dinner Event Wednesday night. Julia, who also works at Platform china emailed me. Julia and Viki suggest we use some art students to the seamstresses on Wednesday night. need exact times for meeting – I think 6.30.what to wear […]

Restaurants in Beijing http://www.ingridhora.com/ongoing We met Ingrid Hora, an Italian Artist living in Berlin who is doing a residency in Cao Chang di . she sent through a list of great restaurants in Beijing. She has a small opening on […]

ON Wednesday Matt is cooking a dinner for eight/nine people at Laurens Tans’ studio. I will document the event. Julia, My number is 13522864391. Can we talk tonight/today. Premise>As the guests eat, three to four seamstresses sew the emotional connections […]

At the fodder factory, a great little restaurant in cao chang di – We have set up here for downloads of the camera footage. While here, Matt is sampling a mirin type of dressing that he wan’ts to know more […]

I just thought I’d let you all know I passed my MA. With a Distinction!! Extremely happy + now settling into my new job and life as a working artist again. New blog will start soon.

I know the MA is finished now but I’m staying with the Butterfly Park on the committee as a Board Member now. I got so passionate about the place that I can’t leave. So I have applied for two lots […]

I’ve been engaging in some intensive debate with the irreverent Sid Volter on Lars Von Trier’s latest cinematic offering: Melancholia. Sid is of the opinion that the film offers up one of the best portraits of a character with chronic […]

Another post – MA blog entry. This video from our private view was posted on Youtube by ArtsLondonWimbledon. It’s a short video that captures a few seconds of everyones work. Wimbledon College of Art – MA Show 2011

I’ve become distracted lately by a horrible issue with Orange, which I wrote in this blog: http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.com/ Still no news from Ofcom yet, however, I’ve since been busy applying for funding for the Empty Shops project and just to be […]

A body’s memory forgotten… Last night I read a September journal entry and was surprised that I had not remembered writing it when I wrote entry #6 here less than a month later. I am writing about and revisiting some […]

Yesterday I took down the Last Gallery show, a day on the road. Today I: Carefully packed the 3 huts from the show, they’ll accompany me as hand luggage (the main body of work, 16 huts, has arrived at the […]

The 3D painting project is well under way. Preliminary stages have yielded some finished works, I have a pile of materials in the studio, another behind the sofa, more under the bed… I desperately need more studio space! I have […]

Attending the Sluice Art Fair and panel discussion and other art events in the past few weeks has confirmed a shift in feelings. There is always that struggle between the reality of being an artist and the need to make, […]

I have started this blog because of a suggestion from a friend who also writes a blog. I hope the process of documenting what I’m doing and my thoughts about it will be useful to me in someway. STUDIO I […]

Today: Many, many questions including these… What would it be like to generate a series of visual images which document the process of arriving at a finished piece with the prior knowledge that the work, itself would never be exhibited? […]

To begin my drawing project I have been doing a series of ‘blind’ drawings – as in not looking at the paper at all whilst completing the drawing, concentrating totally on the subject. Before I started these drawings I was […]

Designed the Rendlesham Forest research poster over the weekend. Approved the proof today. Hopefully they’ll arrive on Friday. They’re on flimsy paper again to give a slight newsprint feel, but not as thin as the forest traces posters from last […]

So we finally have a poster image to post up! Since Ross’s last post on here we have managed to grab some time in my studio here in Edinburgh. Whilst drinking fragrant Turkish coffee the conversations began to loosen and […]

Sending things in Further my last post, i requested an image from CJ at Aid and Abet to see how the objects we were sending in looked in the project space. As we havent been to the gallery since the […]

The Wildart Trail I thought this blog was finished when the year of sticks was complete. Now The Wildart Trail is complete (very nearly) its officially had the ribbon cut and this blog has a second ending! I dont think […]