Well I am back on the planning stage discussing possible ideas with the school and daisi. This time i’ll be working with art and geography. The geography dept really liked the maps we made last year and are interested in […]
Two schools got back to me this week with a yes to doing workshops, meeting with one of them next week and potentially a third soon too. Good News, be great to have the local kids involved as then they […]
Following the arrival of more tables in the workshop area I am now able to have work in progress lying around and move from piece to piece. I have finished 5 large scale pieces in the last couple of weeks […]
Woke up at 3 PM!!! Anyway despite that I decided as I’d done 36 hours work I’d not punish myself and I’d just push on with what remained of the day. Yesterday’s mid phase review was certainly revealing. I’m looking […]
Respect and friendship I knew something must be wrong when small groups of staff stand at the edges of your working area looking at what your doing with shaking heads and folded arms obviously horrified at the delivery of your […]
I managed to leave Xiamen without the bag of mine containing my laptop, camera, agenda and information on where to go upon arrival in the city. It has worked out OK however and I found the visa office and have […]
Evaluation Comparing my proposal to the actual outcomes of my project is still ongoing, although I do feel I achieved most of the original aims. Work that I actually realised in Chongqing was a street intervention, end of show ‘happening’ […]
I’ve been getting enthusiastic about using ohp projectors in an exhibition i really like the ‘old school’ nature of them, i think it would be great fun to play with a space and lots of ohp projectors. I’ve been playing […]
bits of sculpture on ohp projector… lots of the etching shows the light through it, i think i am going to try backing it onto a piece of clear perspex so hopefully the effect will happen outside too, although i […]
The theme around my copper sculpture is the idea of the power that nature has even over the man-made environment. the plan is for the courtyard area with the dragon to become a mini sculpture park around the theme of […]
Thrillingly, I’m showing new work at Tate Britain next month. My conducting work “Musica Practica” will be performed in seven of the galleries over the course of the Late at Tate event on February 4th. The Tate curator got in […]
‘recycle with michael’ seems to be popular, it is interesting how they’ve automatically thought of recycling and community and ‘population’ they sound to me like buzz words from some government education programme
i ran a workshop before christmas, not to do with this project but something i am interested in called ‘social mapping’ where you ask people to draw maps of their communities. The idea is to get personnal perspectives on communities, […]
With the looming end of project, inevitable exhibition, vaguely organised, and various other personnal deadlines like applying for print international and the national eisteddfod. I have been trying to reign myself back in to remember what i’ve been doing and […]
i’ve been looking at a lot of photographs i have taken over the last year or so relating to an ongoing investigation and interest in ‘unclaimed and reclaimed spaces’ i started to make drypoints from the photos to make up […]
When recently I wrote reviews of exhibitions, I did so in part to engage with work with which I did not feel intuitively aligned. I wanted to examine the possibility that my prejudices might be set aside. It was a […]
Had some time to spend in the studio today. It will take time until I feel I have really inhabited the space but a couple of hours concentrated work in there this afternoon has gone a long way towards making […]
I’ve been doing too many left-brain things and far too few right-brain things – I fall into that easily, understanding myself to be an analytical personality at the best of times. But in a way, it is good to have […]
Jelly baby is in the kiln cooling down at a ridiculously slow rate! Initial cooling after annealing is 0.3 of a degree per hour. That’s insane! Two weeks before he comes out of the kiln! I can’t wait! Not that […]
Hello! New Years resolution – endeavour to make more frequent blog posts. Possible a rocky beginning since we are almost a month into 2011 already…but from this point on I will keep you up to date with all the travels, […]
mid- phase review awake for 36hours lost but aware need rest
