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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” […]

today i painted up my wooden google marker and made a load of drawings for the frame thats going to be holding it… tomorrow i will start work on making the frame and colour the edge of the board black […]

I had my Isaac Newton apple on the head moment the day before last. Unlike the famous physicist’s however, mine brought me considerable pain and no immediate insight. I was in the kitchen pouring a cup of hot water for […]

I just read ‘Writing art and life’ by Tamarin Norwood from these very hallowed Artists talking pages. It made me want tell everyone about my green bananas. ‘You see, I bought them yesterday and they were very green, I like […]

How absolutely delicious it is to paint with oil based household gloss paint. At the moment in the studio, among other things, I have been painting a shelf with pink household gloss. The glide of the brush is so satisfying, […]

I love to create works which attack the viewers sensibilities and senses, however as a newly emerging artist I feel a pull toward producing something which is more saleable. Everyone has to eat after all and I spend more money […]

After visiting last week’s Future Map 10 exhibition* at London’s Zabludowicz Collection, with it’s boastful bi-line: ‘showcasing the finest talent from the University of the Arts’, I have been thinking: Why are we churning out so many artists? Because we […]

Spend today getting ready for the Big Collab in Bournemouth today. Deconstructed my 2011 diary for use as business cards. Got a call from Louise Atkinson about the show she’s curating in Leeds during the artists book fair this year. […]

i started work on something new today… making a series of google map markers to show how our experiances of digital space and our experiance of physical space are fundamentally the same… i’ve been making drawings of this for a […]

‘ … enlargement is not really concerned with simply clarifying what we glimpse ‘anyway’ but rather brings out wholly new structural formations in matter … ‘ – Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction I […]

The dissertation (“The Art of Staying Young: A Critical Analysis of Childlike Qualities in Contemporary Art”) is handed in… And breathe. I’m almost happy with it. I feel I could have done better, but it’s also important to keep the […]