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Well, it is done! Finished, finito! And now what? !Keep on moving! Artist statement here. More pictures here. Movie of the installation coming soon!

A panoramic shot of a recent installation for my MA Show entitled IN and OUT, also including work in the same room by Claire Swift and Sarah Silverwood. Left alcove, Claire Swift, ‘Garden of Forking Paths’ Central sculpture and projection, […]

I had a small site specific sculptural piece constructed in my garden today. Very simple, the artist built it with a sense of delight in the rightness of the materials and their placing. It consisted of a series of flint […]

Well I’m back in school now, and have actually taught today at last. I hate it when the return to the new term starts with inset training days and admin, because I can find I start the year thinking I […]

‘The wish of the Witness’ exhibition has opened on Tuesday at Pied à Terre and you can view my unique pieces any day between now and 31 October between 3-6pm. Following an eight-month residency, I was the first Artist in […]

Hurrah the schools are back! Time to tackle my enormous list of neglected jobs – finally time to concentrate on promoting my Edinburgh installations…. oh no I’m collecting the work on Saturday. Quick go and see it NOW!

I’m not a morning person. It’s not my fault. I went to bed at 11.30pm and stayed awake playing an unwritten film of the drawing with light workshop I’m hoping to do on 20th October. Then my mind wandered to […]

“Ever since Marcel Duchamp exhibited his “found object” Urinal almost a century ago, art’s relationship with utility has been brought into question. What would happen to its artistic identity if Urinal was taken from its gallery mounting, replaced in the […]

Watched an interesting DVD this week called The Joneses, directed by Derrick Borte, 2009 the premise is: A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they’re living there, they […]

I’ve been home from Schiedam for nearly two days and the momentum for writing the blog has slipped, so to come back to the things that I promised myself I’d write about (and I think that it is useful to […]

It’s great to chalk up some good news. Firstly, Sarah Key has been shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize http://www.threadneedleprize.com/ Secondly, I have been shortlisted for the Nottingham Open 2011 with four paintings. Also, My large drawing was bought on the […]

17th September – 4th December, various venues, Plymouth UK VIA presents a nomadic model of working as a curatorial framework. The project questions how artist-led practice can thrive in ‘in-between’ spaces, and subsist/grow alongside existing structures created by institution or […]

For the full time MA students it almost over; all that is left is to take down the work figure out how to take it home/ sell it/ store it and collect their results. I’m half way through and I […]

I’ve just reviewed and edited together some clips from one of my performances over the weekend – Interesting to see how it looks from the other side of the canvas… Performance drawing at Invisible City, Ruimte in Beweging, Schiedam, Netherlands, […]

A neglected blog sits in the corner of my room, glowering at me resentfully, as it has been for some months. Tonight I finally resolved to face it head-on, and wrote a respectabley sized post to update. Then I tried […]