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Since being back from Finland I am struggling to get back into work. I have to force myself into getting things done whilst juggling paid work and reflecting on what projects to go ahead with. I have lots of ideas […]

Well its all getting very busy with the show inching closer and closer. So here some updates of my progress. I have a new website also! http://www.sarahfrancis.gallereo.com/index.html

Another day, another dollar (I hope – haven’t had a contract yet). We are at the half way point of this year’s SSCs: the first module finishes tomorrow and the second begins next week, after yet another Bank Holiday. Several […]

next week is the beginning of my arts council funded project ‘the snee snaw’. for the duration of that project i will keep a blog to chat and reflect upon the journey of the project. it will be a record […]

for the last week wifi internet has been hard to come by in the wyspa office so i have been leaving my computer at the house, hence no blogging. but i now have 5mins and the use of someoneelses pc. […]

Themes of placement and out of place-ness have been emerging in current work. Looking back at earlier images of my wardrobe in the crypt are resonating with this and I am thinking about what makes something out of place – […]

On the road, problem solving? Today , I am in Birmingham; I came to meet Teresinha, from Wild Colours company, who specialises in natural dyes. I came to get a few more tips, some plants to grow at the farm, […]

Having visited my first Literature Festival, in Norway, I’ve been thinking more about value and the different ways in which it accrues in the art and poetry worlds. One thing that struck me was the importance of delivery in poetry. […]

Well I’ve installed my work for review and I can’t help thinking that I should have made it in the space rather than offsite. The space was much smaller than I remembered and drilling the ceiling and ensuring all was […]

AGOSTONE FOREVER! “Haggerston is first recorded in the Domesday Book as Hergotestane, possibly of Viking origin, an outlying hamlet of Shoreditch. By Rocque’s 1745 map of Hackney, the village is shown as Agostone and had by the 19th century become […]

On May 18th Sarah and I had a meeting with Mike Brooke the architect at Green Estates. He needed information relating to the firing processes and the activities that would be carried out in the old stable block which has […]