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Funding for international travel and exchange Funding… now that was a really nice Christmas present ! I saw the email and automatically assumed it was another reject from somewhere …as you do. But no – it had attachments…and an opening […]

Around Firenze I wander eager to seek out new places in a city that’s become familiar. Following the winding streets north I discover a park and in its centre a carousel. The park is deserted but the lights of the […]

have decided to keep working with found objects for the moment. its so hard to let go and experiment without all the space i had in university. does anyone else experience a shift in working method because of this? anyway, […]

I submitted my book into a call out from ‘Artists Book Collective’ for a show that is in conjunction with the Leeds International Artist Book Fair. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173220386050059 I have just recieved an email to say that they’d love to include […]

The name of the game this week has been preparing for the assessment of the first big practical module , the research module – Negotiated Study 1 which happens next week. I have managed to prepare my space ahead of […]

Some more installation views of gimme shelter installed in my studio space ready for assessment. One of the things that took time was getting the lighting right, I needed relative dark for the lightboxes and video, but brighter light for […]

what place for competitiveness? this could have been my blog entry subject as i’ve enjoyed reading rob’s entry with the cycling video attached and it has resonated with my own recent realisation of ‘the sports context’ within what i do. […]

Old media versus new media I despair of our local newspaper, the Stirling Observer.It is read widely in the area so any coverage, however small, is welcome. Yes the reporter promised the paragraph I sent in on email about the […]

I have a job! A part-time job at a glass blowing business called Okra, http://www.okraglass.com/ who are based in Stourbridge which is about an hours drive from where I live. Its a bit of a tiring journey but its worth […]

Today I did some high level thinking whilst remaining horizonal. At the moment food is a luxury so by staying in bed for as long as possible I’ve only had one meal today and not paid out any money for […]

I feel like: a cow bred for milking 4 times a day in a mega diary. or a battery hen or a robot or A rider in the tour de France whose climbed x2 Pyrenees mountains already today and who […]

I was conscious of the fact that my perceptions of the city were restricted to a rather narrow and attractive portion of it around the University and the downtown area. I thought it was time to see some more so […]

Post Christmas … Once again I seem to be playing catch up! Although I have managed to spend a pretty relaxing Christmas I have been occupied with my art project…both the theoretical and the practice. Which is a good thing […]

A few days ago I started to write about a new work that I am particularly excited about, and before that, a question I had posed to myself about minimalism. Both references are to the same piece of work. But […]

How important to the understanding of their work is an artist’s political and spiritual stance? Reading an article about Gilbert & George in that quality publication ES Magazine, I was reminded how easy it is to dislike someone on discovering […]

Tom Lubbock, the art critic died, how sad. His wonderful, honest writing will be missed, These blobs have nothing hidden about their materials or making. They are messily stuck together. … What could these things be doing in our lives? […]

I am currently questioning the link between inspiration and calculation within sculptural art practice, and the effect this has on an understanding through objects. To focus on this I am going to examine the sculpture and installations of Michael Johansson […]

I would like to refer back to the meaning of ‘understanding through objects’. Both Johansson and Roy ‘understand’ through this idea, but what is it they ‘understand’? Understanding comes at a moment when the sculpture is finished and the idea […]

I got back yesterday after 24hours of travel, got a quick shower then headed to my studio. It was a mess. The works hanging from the ceiling were now on the floor in piles. I started work on reassembling them. […]