Some good news at last. I had a meeting today with the text+work gallery at AUCB and I will be starting work there tomorrow and every Friday for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately there is no fee for this but whilst […]
The last couple of days I have been selecting and framing up archive family photographs which form part of our work for the exhibition. Last month I went to visit mum in Glasgow and we spent some time going through […]
Leading to the MFA install I had a fantastic meeting with Tritza Even, my graduate advisor. We watched, listened and chatted and her advice is always great. She really knows how to pull out what my concerns are and to […]
i printed and framed the photograph of flowlosopha and have been working out how to fill the balloons with gas and how to keep it in there whilst i block it with the ipod… i was planning on elastic bands […]
GALLERY VISITS It was nice to get out and about today & explore some lesser known galleries, quite by chance a came across a couple of good shows. TinType Gallery was showing kaye Anobile ‘Simulacra’ She had made the most […]
Here are a few more images. More good feedback keeps coming in but one postcard was very moving. Someone took an envelope away and then returned the flower image she had created writing on the bottom edge of the card […]
Results of AIR’s survey of its members on the subject of access to art education. Downloadable PDF version. Requires PDF reader.
In March 2011 Coachwerks in Brighton was awarded the NAN Futurific! Bursary to refurbish a building on their site into a residency space for artists and writers. This blog follows the development of this project.
Nazir and Jonathan have been working literally 24 hour shifts at the studio. Jon arrives in the morning and works; Naz and he do the afternoon shift together then Jon goes home and Naz does the night shift. If it […]
The last day or two have been spent doing mostly the same as the previous days: forcing a Chinese text into my head. I have had help from my translator Sophie who has also been adjusting the text so that […]
neither child safe or safe from children and probably thats how my studio & practice will stay for now….. Ive already made myself laugh with a funny typo in a residency application that i just caught before emailing it off […]
REFELECTIONS SO FAR… I have been trying several things on my pursuit of happiness. So far there have been a few disasters, which have just caused me stress. And some successes, swimming has set a whole course of ideas and […]
What is the purpose of art? I came across this quote in my studio yesterday from art critic Suzi Gablik: ” In the past we have made much of the idea of art as a mirror ( reflecting the times); […]
The last day in Tromso was a lazy sort of wind down day…well, the morning and afternoon were anyway! Spent the morning visiting Blast : http://blaast.no/ a glass design company, at which three women were demonstrating the art of glass […]
Still not well so no more work done but Butterfly Bunting for the van arrived today, thought I’d post a cheerful pic.
I’d prepared a PowerPoint presentation before I left the UK, but it was mainly about the Tate (as requested) and how the group started up etc. I wasn’t really expecting to talk too much about the work I had brought […]
It’s funny how you have to enter a particular frame of mind to be able to paint… for me, the process starts with detailed drawings based on zooms of nature; doing nothing also figures quite highly too, well, physically doing […]
The opening of my exhibition New Industrial Space at Norwich Arts Centre (open until 26th March) allowed me to explore the showing of film as part of an artist talk. I showed Chasing the Blues (1947) from the British Documentary […]
Had a lot of good conversations over the last few days. Yesterday we were preparing for group presentations in response to three seminars we’ve had. Afterwards I spent some time chatting with the members of the group about art, education, […]
