Just found out John Smith’s 1976 Girl Chewing Gum will be screened on Friday night at Tate Britain while Anthony’s performing Musica Practica. I’m very happy to discover this – Smith’s film was a steady reference point for me when […]
“When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. […]
After a few hours in deep contemplation about what not to do I aired my musings with the head of course today. It has been difficult to decide on a direction for this research. When I started rummaging through the […]
GLIMPSES STOP-START BRIEFLY * I have begun reading The Garden in the Machine by Scott MacDonald, which explores representations of nature and landscape (often gardens specifically) in American avant-garde film. Many of the individual studies (of Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line, […]
I’ve had a really intersting week… Stuff & Nonsense was a brilliant show and some of the things people were showing were amazing!!! no photos yet (damn camera batteries) but i’ll post some next week!!! The staff show it was […]
Rob and Jane, thank you, why use a small knot when a big one will suffice? When painting goes well for me it seems to settle into a rhythm that simply needs following; when it goes badly it a disproportionate […]
New Yoik blog. I am back. It was incredibly snowy – they’ve had something like 50 inches this month. I really had the most amazing time and met some great people. Tha reason I was invited was to take part […]
No art today, bought paint tho just cos it was 10p a tin. Mainly shades of white I think I was going to make a pciture for my wall. Nothing to do with paper or any of my MA work; […]
The local visual arts organisation, firstsite – soon to have an amazing new space which they are careful not to call a ‘gallery’ (!) – has set up a Collectors’ Group, who came to visit me a few days ago. I […]
A&E Gallery, Brighton8 – 23 January 2011
To residency or not to – that was the question: When first approached by Pangolin for this opportunity I was both excited and disappointed, and frankly quite confused. On the one hand it seems perfect timing: following on from a […]
I’m back in Xiamen and found my laptop sitting there by the door in its bag, just where I left it when exiting in haste. Having neither the laptop nor my camera was in some ways good as I had […]
From half of my life in war-torn Belfast to the terraced streets of Manchester to the vast expanses of the East Kent countryside, I have finally ended up in what on the surface appears to be the set for the […]
I went to studio 22 realising more and more the benefits of having a large-ish white wall to work with – something I don’t have in my studio at home. If my studio here was twice the size, and all […]
CHLOE OSTMO It seems that I just can’t stop. After working so hard for assessments I thought I’d take some time off, but I’ve got ideas in my head that I want to get down and work on (we do […]
JOHN STEZAKER I dont know how I havn’t seen this man’s work before, I have been extensively going to galleries for 1o or so years. I think his work is so clever and poignant to now. Masks and Pairs are […]
KATERINA FRITSCH I remember her for her sculptures of repeated objects in bright colours. I have revisited this artist and found some of her new work to be brilliant. She has made the most amazing photos where it looks like […]
Tick tick tick tixk tixk tixk tixk, time rolls on. just writing today and cleaning. Spoke to Benedict Phillips in the afternoon. He told me that I was the artist and that I should tell myself that.