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Just a quick note. My review of DYSTOPIA is published, read it here: http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/4000-years-sc…

SPIKE ISLAND By Philip Hoare, 2002 paperback ADDED TO MY LIBRARY BY MICHAEL HAMPTON (The site of the hospital on Southampton water was used by Pathe Brothers for their notorious 1917 film War Neuroses, which contains disturbing scenes of shellshocked […]

Clever a-n, very clever… Half-heartedly scanning the blogs yesterday I noticed the term, ‘Top 10 blogs’, and sitting up a little in my chair, clicked on it. I was at number three. Hmm, …I thought,… well, this won’t change things, […]

Claude Levi-Strauss (1983) considered the house as a social unit after reviewing the confusion of kinship in Franz Boas’s study on North American native Kwakiutl. Boas wanted to found the basic social unit according to traditional anthropological terminology, but he […]

Claude Levi-Strauss (1983) considered the house as a social unit after reviewing the confusion of kinship in Franz Boas’s study on North American native Kwakiutl. Boas wanted to found the basic social unit according to traditional anthropological terminology, but he […]

In a recent blog about Eva Hesse I questioned ‘what if the performance for Hesse was the making of the sculpture, (and) the involvement of the body in making the objects?’ This question has brought me to research Karla Black’s […]

This morning I visited the Huguang Guild Hall was originally built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong, and holds many historical temples, spaces and palaces. It was a lovely morning to visit the now museum with Laura (translator) to view […]

I also visited the Chongqing Town Planning Exhibition which showcases a very wide range of positive and optimistic maps and models of the ever developing city. It has given me a lot of ideas for materials and work for after […]

And last but not least, I added the three dimensional pieces and drawing to the installation. I have got some cleaning up of it do, but I think it is nearly there, but I will sleep on it.

Nicola and I met with two of the Aid&Abet originators – Sarah Evans and David Kefford – between shows at their gallery, Cambridge. We had an interesting and inspiring time discussing different models for artist-led groups and events and future […]

Just spotted a roundup of my project so far on the Chisenhale website – an outline and three documentary videos here and an extract copied below. I found out yesterday that my book will be distributed through the gallery, which […]

Recently I have been interested in the work of Lizzie Mary Cullen (how is an illustrator), which doesn’t really fit with my practice…I’m a painter and she is an illustrator but her mural at Zizzi restaurant at Covent Garden was […]

Audit is 50 photographs of 50 different items which wouldn’t exist collectively without my own existence. The photographs are numbered and displayed beside a ‘catalogue’ of descriptions. [EXIT degree show]

DARKNESS MOVES by HENRI MiCHAUX ADDED TO MY LIBRARY BY LEE MAELZER

Spoken and written influences of the week… On ‘This is Magritte’ [1] a radio programme, Gavin Turk suggested that being labelled an ‘artist’ could be restrictive. When discussing how the surrealist artist René Magritte would categorise himself Gavin Turk said […]

Einsteins country dwelling was near Berlin, in a region called Potsdam, rich with Prussian history and a church with a beautiful bird installation on possibly the only hill in the region.

GLENN IBBITSON “CONSIGNMENT” STUDIO 75 is very proud to be presenting a solo show by the painter Glenn Ibbitson.We persuaded him to leave the dramatic mountains and stormy seas of Wales to come to the filthy big Smoke to show […]

Mapping is actually harder than I first thought and yet very therapeutic. Mind map first, working out what I’ve done, where I did it, who helped, who’s linked to who etc etc. It actually does help to clarify things and […]