6th January, 2011. This is now my last module, and that is a scary thought! Where have the last 2 and half years gone! I have got 20 weeks or so until the degree show. My topic for this module, […]
> Technical Itch This week, I walked excitedly into Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive exhibition, “Recorders”, at Manchester City Gallery. http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions/index.php?itemID=73 The gallery was quite quiet, so I got to have a good go at everything. The exhibition’s outstanding work, “Pulse Room”, […]
I have completed the August Challenge, which was from the famous Simon and Garfunkel song Scarborough Fair; to sow a cambric shirt with out seams on needlework. Despite taking me the best part of five months to realise I have […]
2010 Published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, Series editor Iwona Blazwick
1 October 2010 – 31 December 2011
The expression “A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing” is more or less where I am with my very partial understanding of Chinese. I can read things on the street and understand a character here and a […]
THE SEA (THE ARTIST) THE WRITER (THE SEA). I have this art writer friend who lives in London, she’s originally from Surrey and likes Iris Murdoch novels. We once took a walk through the park opposite the ICA together talking […]
Here’s a link to my gimme shelter Blurb book. I couldn’t get Blurb’s embed codes for book preview to work here. Anyone know how to do it? http://www.blurb.com/books/1908872
I often talk about book making/altering projects in my blogs and as my book making is often very seperate to my installation work I thought I should keep a blog just for book projects. (If you haven’t noticed already I […]
I’m starting to look around the city and also starting to look at myself looking around the city, as it were. I’m quite aware that the things I pay attention to are probably not the things that people from Xiamen […]
Jane boyer and Rob Turner’s debate about paint , education and our own battles has been fascinating to read. www.a-n.co.uk/p/643588/ Post no 32 I guess how I feel is that when I stop feeling a little scared about painting ,when […]
Once again I was totally surprised to see my blog image on the front page of Artists Talking. The children were even more thrilled to see their advent calendar scene on the choice blog spot. As Rob Turner said blogging […]
Most years at St George’s we have run a single residency over a few months during the year. In 2011 we are doing something rather different; we are running a series of shorter residencies, exhibitions, events and workshops. It’s exciting […]
I’ve decided to propel myself into 2011 on a wave of optimism. This is based on the belief that it must be time for things to get a bit better. The past two or three years seem to have been […]
Instead of hibernating this winter I decided to lock myself in my studio and paint. I made up lots of 100cm X 100cm canvasses, surrounded myself with them and then got to work. It has been refreshing not to have […]
Well I’m starting to get my things together ready for the big move. My office cum studio is so cluttered I can hardly think straight let alone make work.
