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Thank you David for your comments. I genuinely welcome honest feedback, which I guess I asked for. Even in Art School such a direct approach is rare but, in this case at least, it’s effective as it gives me the […]

It was good to get the flight booking out of the way – one less worry! But its been hard going looking for a hotel. I mean – looking for a hotel within our price range. Norwegian accommodation is unbelievably […]

Mark the Day on the Street – 15/12/10 Resulting from our pop-up studios day, Joan Birkett produced this piece of work. She says “I’ve called it- Mark the Day on the Street – 15/12/10. Two young graphic art students from […]

I discovered a word I never knew existed: Zhonglish. It is the English language’s ‘gift’ to Chinese, and it can be considered the companion to Chinglish the Chinese language’s gift to English. Its origin is in the Chinese word for […]

A Game of Chance OK. Deep breaths. It’s the last term of the course. I feel… strangely detached from the idea of the Thesis Show, the culmination of two years of non-stop, intensive creativity. Perhaps this may be due to […]

I was going to write about the protocols, the dos and don’ts of reviewing shows that you are in. In the end I didn’t have to as David Minton reviewed the show for me. www.a-n.co.uk/p/797854 I can hardly claim it […]

Success builds success When my MA show was reviewed by Robin Froggatt-Smit and Kitty Hudson on Murmurart –

jinx, prints, the RA and butterflies I spoke too soon! Play won’t be at the entrance to Supermarket – for reasons that I haven’t questioned I’ve been offered three alternative spaces. It is disappointing and part of me wants to […]

I have decided to switch blogs? Promted by: Annabell Tileys last post. www.a-n.co.uk/p/642682/ And this is because working with other people is really what I am doing all the time and will be for a while. It is also what […]

Last night I was treated to a double language exchange; a Dutch research student and I met up with two sisters in a cafe and received instruction in Chinese pronunciation. It was about a quarter of the way through that […]

Back from YSP after a few elating, sunny days. Now I am mainly avoiding my tax return, but I have to do it today, otherwise I shall go to New York on Saturday and it will plague my dreams. Pretty […]

My dissertation has now been handed in so, I have until the beginning of September to focus on practical work. The dissertation examined definitions of creativity from different fields and looked at approaches to understanding the creative process within artistic […]

Bouazizi A frustrated young man in Tunisia is driven to self immolation and the protests at his death spark a revolution. His brother Salem Bouazizi was quoted as saying: “Freedom is expensive and my brother paid the price of freedom” […]