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Painting and putting proposals together. 16 paintings so far, and more to do. Also, I’m playing with frames.

Enjoyed another day working in the studio space at Millennium Centre, Leasowe and some excellent cake in the cafe. Working in this lovely space has injected some new inspiration into my recent work, and I’m hoping that I can further […]

Just over a week to go until I start my course. I’ve been steadily reading books from the suggested reading list although I keep being corrupted by the shop at the Cornerhouse. The latest purchase is Frieze d/e, a new […]

The project is building momentum, members of Satellite who have opted into putting something into our first portfolio collection for Space Exchange at Aid and Abet have emailed me 3 images each. These in turn have been sent to Aid […]

I had a meeting with Carly from marketing today about doing schools workshops at AUCB on a regular basis. Violet at the Gallery has already got me booked in for a session in October when I come back from Estonia. […]

The other day an artist sent me a paragraph of text lifted from my recent blog and asked if she might use it to label some of my work. I had no idea she read it ……I felt quite startled. […]

What a week…. Schools back, started my new job, took the caravan visitor centre up to Preston to see the external assessor, set up an Arena drawing exhibition in Bankley Studios, Manchester and …..got my MA results!!! I got a […]

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 […]