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I was so happy I almost started painting again! Things have moved along with the project and I see a spring and summer ahead of me working in the Thornden Woods with tree surgeons, bushcraft experts, woodland wardens and Kent […]

Part 2 I’m relieved to feel I’m on a similar track in my own work with regards to self and context. Reading Sean Burke’s Death and Return of the Author, which I have mentioned before in my blog, was a […]

Part 1 I wonder sometimes if I will ever be able to learn enough (I already know the answer to that is, no). I just finished reading an essay by Rosalind Krauss called Line as Language. It was first published […]

International Award for Participatory Art http://www.artepartecipativa.it/e-pablo-helguera-il-vincitore-della-prima-edizione-del-premio-internazionale-di-arte-partecipativa Pablo Helguera has won the first edition of the International Award for Participatory Art. The Award, a biennial project promoted by the Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, is dedicated to artists with an […]

Great site addressing important questions: // Can socially engaged art do more harm than good? // Are there ethical responsibilities for social art? // Does socially engaged art have to do civic or public good? // Can there be transdisciplinary […]

Dialogical Aesthetics: A Critical Framework For Littoral Art by Grant Kester A framework for the critical analysis of “Littoral” or engaged art practices http://www.variant.org.uk/9texts/KesterSupplement….

I have realised whilst looking over this blog that it doesn’t end at the exhibition, I used it to continue writing about life after the residency and that I never included final images. So here they are and this is […]

Interesting reading! Alison Green’s short review of key texts on public art http://www.axisweb.org/dlFull.aspx?ESSAYID=56 (Sally, thanks again!)

when playing rugby at senior school, i once attempted a quick lineout, by throwing it to myself. i was commended for my thought and inventiveness. however, in that moment of improvisation i forgot i key rule, the ball must travel […]

Ok, so the update goes like this: I got a few guy friends to help with the move from the old studio to the new one. I think I remember buying them all pizza and beer afterwards as a thank […]

The garden is starting to wake up! Daffodils are coming out, the crocuses are nearly over and the frogs have spawned (although many fewer than last year). We have been clearing part of the wooded area at the top of […]

I am one of those artists that flits from one thing to the next, just focusing from one flowering idea to another. Well like a bumblebee collecting pollen, bringing back visual ideas to a collection to make a cheesy analogy. […]

So I have to move flat… for the umpteenth time. It’s just part of the renting life. And, dreading the idea of moving all my art supplies and unsold art work to yet another place, I contemplated throwing some of […]

To dally on the walkway and marry at the door I seem to have acquired myself a mentor. A mentor that is impeccably fast at replying to emails – almost too fast, and definitely faster than I am at producing […]

Coincidence No. 2 The doll art that served to help get me accepted to both art schools caught an artist friend’s imagination a few years back. I had shown some of them in the Barbs show I participated in at […]

Information for upcomng show – Leo Fitzmaurice An exhibition of work as part of Standpoint Futures Residency Program 2011 24 March 2011 12-8pm; artist’s talk and drinks at 6.30pm25 March 2011 12-6pm Otherwise known for his bold installations and sculptures […]

Eek what a week It started with a trip to Castlefield Gallery to listen to David Medalla speak about his art, his life and how the two have intertwined in the most astonishing ways. I could have listened to him […]

So it’s Day 2 of the project and I’ve had a hectic couple of days in Mortlach Primary School. Ken Cockburn (the poet) and I launched the project by giving presentations to the Infant School and then the Upper School, […]

I AM NOT IN JAPAN.

I do not mean to offend. So, if I do, please accept my apologies. Some paintings finished, and some in progress, and some started. My tentative title is “Patrons”. And, here is my in progress exhibit proposal: The name of […]

I have just finished the latest issue of MAT ZINE. This issue makes up part of my response to the residency and will form part of the work for the art walk show at Westgate Studios at the end of […]