Yesterday we had a performance of The Customer (as it is now becoming known to me in short form) on the Guildhall Square, Portsmouth. It was touch and go whether it would or would not happen at all but the […]
“Listen to your tutors”. That was the advise from an artist whose workshop I attended before going to art college as a mature student. Of course I didn’t! And I regret it. Now ten years later words from some tutors […]
Blue plus Yellow does not always equal Green.
What to do with a disused airport? This is the Tempelhof airport in Berlin one of the two existing ones- it has now been closed down after the unification of Germany since the Berlin wall fell. A huge tract of […]
I made this the other day, thinking about alternative approaches to reading texts out loud. The short text is a self-contained story I’d just finished (perhaps story is too strong a word) and I’m thinking of presenting it along with […]
Places we saw and things we did in Chicago: The Garfield Park Conservatory – built 100yrs before the Eden Project and an unexpected oasis just 10 mins on the green line from Down Town Chicago. (Me and Alison got our […]
Prompted by the excerpt of my blogger profile published in the a-n Degree Show supplement, I re-read the interview and have been reflecting on the changes in my practice since last summer. Everything mentioned is still relevant. However there are […]
Brought some clay, intend to make a patterned ‘press-mould’ of sorts with it for inpressing a design upon my plates. Plates?!?? I hear you cry! Yes, plates indeed. for my many tiered cake-stand. I have decided that a huge cakestand […]
It’s so long since I’ve written in this blog. I haven’t had time to make books again until I had time off work for Easter. The ‘Home from Home’ exhibition was very impressive. I feel very honoured to be part […]
Karla Black nominated for the Turner prize – fantastic – regardless of opinion on the Turner prize, I adore Karla Blacks work and the way she so successfully manages to remain totally contemporary while looking back to the legacy left […]
LAUNCH PLANS Gradually things are falling in to place. We’ve mapped out our ideas for events for the first six months. We need to make sure that there will be plenty of scope for the programme to adapt to what […]
Bob and I have interviewed each other for Jean McEwan’s new zine for New Work Yorkshire: I Stood Up And I Said Yeah Issue 1: DIY which launched yesterday, Friday 6th May at the Compass Live Art event at Bloc […]
Bob interviews Alice BM: Does ‘art’ matter? AB: Yes. And it shouldn’t be a luxury for the privileged, it should be for everyone. BM: People like labels and especially in the ‘art world’, for example, nonsense such as ‘emerging artist’. […]
Alice interviews Bob AB: DIY in art practice means different things to different people. How do you define the term? BM: It is a label and I instinctively dislike labels. I think for some people it is a genuine calling, […]
A week away in Brecon for a fine art field trip has unfortunately ended today, and back to reality I must return. The exhibition is coming together at a fast pace as we build and paint amongst creating! Securing reviewers […]
My music is availalbe in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziXJy_hO9k http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/london-wi-fi-land… http://www.amazon.com/London-Wi-Fi-Landscape/dp/B0… This music comes from my PhD project visualising Wi-Fi landscapes in cities.Inspired by Josef Albers, Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis, I tried toexplore the structures and relations in artworks, landscapes,networks, architectures, societies […]
My music is availalbe in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziXJy_hO9k http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/london-wi-fi-land… http://www.amazon.com/London-Wi-Fi-Landscape/dp/B0… This music comes from my project visualising Wi-Fi landscapes in cities.Inspired by Josef Albers, Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis, I tried toexplore the structures and relations in artworks, landscapes,networks, architectures, societies and […]
