I managed to get hold of a big fish yesterday, not the plastic sort you might sea in a fish restaurant that I had envisaged, this was a soft one with more detail than is normal. I am not entirely […]
The dog that hangs around (and jellyfish that have minds) An idea that may or may not involve hanging a dog from the ceiling, which ceiling I am not so sure. Not this ceiling it is too high. Not just […]
Been an engaging and interesting experience so far with this project. Taking my experience working with this school and the last project and in that I will be working with the whole year group, which means 300 plus children, the […]
The last 3 years have been massively productive and creative, but I am still not sure what my practice ‘is’ . Am I process led, am I conceptually based, is it aesthetics that drive my decisions. Does any of this […]
i was asked yesterday what does john harris want to make work about? i started looking around the room, looking at my note book, then back around the room trying to formulate the answer i thought that summed up this […]
A pretty standard week last week. I spent most of my studio time working on the two boards that I made up and prepared the week before. I attempted to give them the feel of time passing or of time […]
I have 10 days to make an installation work for the ‘Home from Home’ show in Leeds, opening 11th March. This is my first attempt at blogging to document the process of making a particular piece of work before, and […]
Creativity and Collaboration in Times of Austerity. Biting Back Symposium on Monday 21st March 2011 in Birmingham! http://biteback.org.uk/
The book is on course and discussions are ongoing with Lily Publications,the Manx National Heritage Foundation and the Isle of Man Arts Council. Now I need to start selecting which images I want to use and also which images I […]
A video I made in the beginning of the third year, in October, which shows different household objects on a split-screen. The appliances start one after another, their sounds adding up, getting louder and creating an uncomfortable, not exactly homely […]
degree show proposal time… its due in on the 9th so i made a start today!!! I’m planning on making a group of networked architecture, basically a series of objects around the school of art which are linked via webcams […]
A few weeks ago, I ended up meeting a friend who lives locally at 3.30 am for a midnight stroll. I was up as I had been out with friends and knew that there was no way I would be […]
Novia are the champions after beating their nearest rivals Red Star comfortably on the last day of the season. Sporting radio: ‘Well, Novia couldn’t have wished for an easier way to get their 1st Sporting title….the celebrations will go on […]
Onwards with pinhole and live art; I picked up the dried prints today. They’re an improvement on the first batch but much work needs to be done to get anywhere near the standard of image I intend to achieve. I […]
“I would like to give you this but I would not recommend it Today I changed someone’s gender. A male walked in to work through the glass doors. Using this pen, keeping a tally of the footfall we, I marked […]
The first of our 2011 Live Brief pursuits kicked off with a creative intervention/exploration in a fresh Solihull location. Temple Balsall was the site of interest elected by Claire Hickey who, map in hand, guided us on a walk around […]
This blog is to document the process of an installation work I am currently making for the exhibition ‘Home from Home’ curated by Louise Atkinson of the Artist Book Collective and showing as part of Leeds International Artists Book Fair, […]
Nicola Williams, Cement Garden, 2009.
Cameron’s Big Society has been criticised for being a cover for spending cuts. Its proposal to shift power from central government to communities and volunteers is not enough to maintain services that will be compromised by deep cuts, many argue.
Dan Thompson’s letter in response to the State of the Arts conference
Dany Louise’s response to State of the Arts conference
Concerning the word ‘spiritual’ in art. Mark Dean considers the historical roots of art’s contemporary alliances to spirituality and asks whether art is the new religion.
