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Last night I discovered I had made a fundamental error. As I attempted to move the blob from its basement home, I soon realised that although I had measured it carefully to fit its new penthouse accomodation in Haggerston, I […]

There are certain times when the school are just so busy with life within their borders that getting them to communicate proves difficult. One such exam time – now! Are your messages getting through, it can be hard to tell […]

What is that image I hear you ask? What is this hastily erected structure, a shelter created from cast offs, gleaned from our greedily consumerist society, teetering on the verge of collapse, a metaphor for modern city living perhaps? This […]

Wordy Women – Women, Art and Text Chorlton Art Festival 2011Monday May 23rd 7.30 – 9.00pm www.chorltonartsfestival.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=656008209#!/event.php?eid=191551177557406 Emily Pitts, Caroline Coates and myself met up yesterday in the Cornerhouse cafe to finalise the running order for our talk […]

Enclosure The first studio I had was a room without windows that had two strip lights, which resonated with a communicative buzz. I used it as a room of reflection and an enclosure to let loose my wide collection of […]

Beth Shapeero – Hanging Gloss Installation

phew, i got somewhere today. i went on a small boat trip round the shipyard and did some filming to test the idea out. it was truley awesome going so close to the huge ships and oil rigs that are […]

The Big Art Walk, Chorlton Festival 2011 Ivy Green Nature ReserveTHU 19 MAY – MON 30 MAY www.chorltonartsfestival.com facebook: http://chorltonartsfestival.com/the-big-art-walk/ There is a map you can download from the website I finally got my RiverText installed on Wednesday for the […]

The view from a bridge. RiverText: I have been here before. It’s really interesting to see how people respond to RiverText and what meanings they read into it. Most are amused, they sense the fun I had making it, I […]

Finally turned a corner yesterday with Premiere Pro, think shapes and worry about content later. I have a lot of interaction with my tutors on this course but there is still a level of privacy to my work which is […]

Sporting Game 3 Sporting radio: Pundit A: ‘I think they (Yop Lane) were great last season. Let us not forget that they had to sell all their assets to get into The Sporting League. Nah, I think they’ve been fantastic, […]

i’ve been in an elevated state of mind since saturday and in the last few hours feel like i’m levelling out again. all of this is a perfectly legal activity, on saturday i read that my grants for the arts […]

Spelling herbs: Basel is Blackford hill and beyond Well, what sits on the window cil matches the mood green outside. At the top of the hill on the top floor the coffee machine whistles away and so does the wind […]

‘Only in the making can things happen.’ Wonderful quote from Michael Atavar’s exquisite, earnest, philosophical and wry book: HOW TO BE AN ARTIST. And each time I begin to draw, those words become a revelation on the page …. Jerwood: […]

Oh the irony of organising your own art trail when in my own practice I didn’t get a place on the really big arts trail that happens in a town up the road! So on a personal level, a rejection […]