i rang a council office yesterday. their answer machine told me that thy were on holiday, the bins were being collected as normal, and then gave me a phone number for if i’d seen a stay dog… i do like […]
[Goose Break – my two week holiday to the south at the end of April was extended by 5-6 weeks due to the sudden need for palliative care and burial of an immediate family member. I was glad to be […]
Just found this Art Worker app on itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/art-worker/id439994115?mt=8&ls=1 It’s pretty simple but works out a suggested daily rate as well as fees for talks/workshops (based on yearly outgoings) and prices for work. It’s a bit like a-n’s fees calculator […]
Sporting League game 5 Universo moved to joint top with a four goals to three way win over Sporting Athlete. Sporting radio: Pundit X: ‘Man, that was one hell of a game tonight – these teams back in the league […]
AN INVITATION… (if you haven’t received yours, here it is!) Friday 10 June, 6pm – 8pm at the Junction Box, Towner, College Road, Eastbourne. Blue Monkey Studio is pleased to invite you to the launch of the Blue Monkey Network. […]
I’ve been making sheets of paper from the paper boluses. There are around thirty sheets to be made and the process is repetitive. Today I took note of the process. To make a sheet of paper select jar walk to […]
May Sticks I was walking in the woods with my dog listening to ‘echos’ by Pink Floyd, I was immersed and felt small, lost and vulnerable. Next was Enrico Morricone’s sort of orchestral sound tracks to a series of iconic […]
Some more press has emerged, this time an article on the performance in Berlin that was part of Extension Series. Posted below. http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=566960695… And another piece written about the show in Brighton: http://louisehalvardsson.blogspot.com/2011/05/chin… What a relief it is to have […]
i sit here beginning a blog i proposed to start back in march. my revised application has been successful and this week is the beginning of the project. like being in a new school, there are things i need yet […]
Lots happening so I am not going to dwell on my lack of recent posts. I did start a couple of posts but didn’t finish them. My time to make work has been erratic but it does somehow still trickle […]
thank you rob for your comment, interesting you mention becoming too formal and trying not to loose a sense of humour. this comment has allowed me to contextualise the source of my nerves this morning. the work takes place in […]
So….here we go. This residency is at a random place for me right now. I’ve been working for a a year already – most recently witha project promoting home cooking to the people of Barkking and dagenham. In a round-about […]
I’m beginning with some research into Birth and breastfeeding. I’ve looked at clinical texts and adisory books for parents. I can’t help linking everything i research to my own experience of child bearing and birth – so I’m just going […]
I’ve been there, damned NHS…honestly i was really traumatised by the whole childbearing experience… I have found passages and images in gynaecologists books – recommending that the opposite of what happened to me would be the ideal.
Richard: My ideas are a little all over the place at the moment and, as I begin to back up some boxes of material and dismantle my trusty Ikea desk, I think of how my work might benefit from being […]
Well, well, well, on the 19th of August 2011 I will have painted 1000 daily paintings. That is one a day for 1000 days, non stop, no breaks, straight through. Blimey, not sure I thought I would do that many, […]
I have final completed my piece for the degree show…here it is
Sporting League: Game 4 Novia maintained a one hundred percent start to the season with a two goals to nil away win at Red Star. Novia boss: ‘We picked up a few injuries to key players out there today – […]
after a walk, the working day feels like it is complete. it’s interesting how i’m aware of small triggers taking me back into another mindset, that of the artisan. i guess because i did that for so many years, the […]
Is this the place for duplication? Image directories. One image holds the centre of the next image, this image gives away its centre as it knows its own centre will have space on the image that comes after. This is […]
the snee snaw is an audio kinetic artwork that takes place in a non traditional art space and encourages players to work together to find the elusive sneeze condition. the project is funded by the arts council through the grants […]
I have been commissioned as Photographer in Residence for NHS Barking and Dagenham. I am spending the next 10 months exploring the pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding experience.
Christine Corthorn, 'Wave bowls', ceramic.
Lorraine Robbins, 'Drawing'.