Please excuse the rundown estates, sorry that you have wrecked, rundown mistakes, but I am using speech recognition two write this post right. To save my wrists from getting worse I am trying to teach my computer to recognise my […]
Message to Self Really enjoyed Emily Speed’s list of high and low points for 2011. Here are mine: High-points Moving my practice to Deptford, albeit, on a temporary, experimental one-year-basis. Can I afford it? To be reviewed end March 2011. […]
As part of a New Generation Space funded commission at SHOP on Stoke town, artist Anna Francis hosted a tour of the town and a revisioning/rebuilding activity for local artists. During the activity the artists involved made suggestions for ways […]
Why I’m interested – Katie Shipley I am interested in the personal stories and local myths and legends of Stoke-on-Trent, the lives that have woven around the buildings and events in the city. I would like to use the QR […]
So today the Arts College closed because of the snow and I was ‘let go’ from my part-time job. But I did find an image of the manor house at Voisiku where the Von Bock’s lived in the 19th century. […]
Platform is a group of artists based in St Helens, UK, who are working together to share their practice and to address the lack of affordable, accessible, studio spaces in the town. On Wednesday 15th December 2010, the artists took […]
So I didn’t get the job at the children’s centre and I actually felt quite bitter when I got the letter. I did the drawing workshop with the kids, and we had lots of fun, but no one was really […]
Since completing the work for the residency I’ve been wondering what next. Over the last few weeks I’ve had a real sense of deflation, which has led to questions about my practice and my role as an artist. I was […]
A nice circularity has happened. Our exhibition will be held in the gallery at Ximalaya Bookshop. Ximalaya was my starting point, the first place I found by following an artist’s description in this case a map drawn by Sarah Sanders. […]
Today I had a two and a half hour studio day with Shen Hua. Shen Hua was the first artist that I have been able to discuss the work with at length and also the first to talk to me […]
Tomorrow I’m going to start on pinhole photography. I was introduced to pinhole by Ernest Truely in May. I want to try out using handmade paper in the process. http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/c…
I think pinhole could be an excellent way to document performace. So does Alyson Belcher. http://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/2009/alyson-bel…
A knock on the studio door and Yan Yan’s voice telling me ‘I’ve brought a friend to meet you’… Another impromptu surprise! Xiao Q! A huge longhaired dog and my companion for the remainder of the week. A really good […]
I have had a set back with the September challenge. After being happy that all my deliveries of various materials all finally arrived and that I had some free time, things were starting to go well. That was until I […]
Looking Again On several occasions I have set out to find Nina’s work. On Wednesday I got up early, armed with my camera to seek out 2 structures that I had seen Nina making in the studio. I knew she […]
Artists from St Helens have come together to address the lack of affordable, accessible, studio spaces in the town. Highs and lows from the group’s inception and along their journey towards more space for art in this North-West town.
I started a blog initially when I began a residency at Leeds Industrial museum in October 2010. This blog was to document my working process, allow for reflection and also allow people to see the work developing. I enjoyed doing […]
SYSTEM It has seveal meanings some of which being:a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting networkin Geology; a major range of strata that corresponds to a period in timein Astronomy; a group of […]
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham
24 November – 24 December 2010
Topshop, Brighton
4 December 2010
End of the first term of the final year! Time flies! Stress levels EXTREME! Money levels, very, very low! First fundraising event for the degree show took place on Thursday, a cake sale, and after Christmas we shall be sending […]
Saturday MorningWhile Jessica was working in Mr Bald’s studio I was in our studio trying to construct a container for water using some wood and plastic I found yesterday in a pile of building debris. I was just getting to […]
Chongqing is a city in flux. What we see, feel, think changes on a day to day, hour to hour basis. Each time Nina visits the river, something is different. Each time I set out to make work, the parameters […]
It’s good to check in with something positive. I submitted an image for a seasonal email greeting competiton. Not only have I won prize money, but my work will be seen by a big audience. Wow! I can’t believe it. […]
Tuesday is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day. This is one day I always look forward to, simply because it means the days start to get longer. Tough on vampires, I know. The last few miles of a journey […]
