A mobile site of contradiction and disunity, a node where various discourses temporarily intersect in particular ways. (Kondo 1990: 47) Kondo, Dorinne 1990. Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Re-assess and Re-visit Critiques are done and I’m feeling hopefull. Things….worked out. I was surprised having worked on one video piece for the semester, editing and re-editing, recording and re-recording, thinking and discarding and thinking some more. One of these […]
Tom Duggan’s thought provoking review in the Interface section of AN www.a-n.co.uk/p/909223/ articulates beautifully many of my own views about the busy and noisy forums, blogs and social networking sites on the internet. I am also guilty of adding to […]
Exhbition – Aesthetics of Africa I have some work in the Small Gallery at Pickfords House in Derby, this was a commission from Derby City Council to produce a contemporary interpretation from the African Collection held by the museum. I […]
From there to here I like this time of the year because it is a chance to start again, or re-invent, finish the old and start the new. I am beginning to look for inspiration from new subject matter; turning […]
Launching…. My Writing Service for Artists It’s a commonly held idea that art needs no words. But, as contemporary artists, we know that isn’t quite true. Historically speaking, from Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte’s surreal, verbal experiments, to Mark Titchner […]
Well, several months later and yet more broke I have learnt some very important lessons this year. Mainly that despite a lifetime of encouraging others to achieve their ambitions I am finding it difficult to achieve mine. The stress of […]
Got really excited this morning a big parcel arrived in the post. It’s the first posting of the O.U. materials for the MA in Art History that I start in February. Excitement is dampened a bit by apprehension – is […]
Final question: What is the language of the mind? The other night I dreamt of licking my best friend’s partner. We were in a building that resembled an assemblage of architecture – a mixture between Oxford’s Christchurch grounds, Glasgow’s University […]
I work in sculpture, mosaic and mixed media. This blog is to record the journey of my practice and how I develop personally and intellectually. I will also be recording the process of working with a business support programme which […]
I was thinking this morning that I haven’t blogged a great deal lately, and I was wondering why. I am aware that much of what I write is not necessarily art related, or at least not obviously so, probably rambling […]
Southwell Artists were able to donate £1000 to SightSavers www.sightsavers.org/, whilst a local charity Southwell Care Project www.southwellcare.org/ also benefitted from the open studios event as their volunteers provided tea and cakes, raising another £1000. What a warm feeling inside. […]
Suprise here as this time Bev has made collages that hint at stories instead of being pure colour & shape. Also two images from Nigel & Estella that are A3 … (the guidelines are A4) .. but they arrived folded […]
On Sunday I was allowed into the quarry on my own for the first time. It was a gloriously sunny day with crisp white snow underfoot. Magical. I got to wander around and just look and think for an hour […]
Just had the hard copy of Call for Enteries 2011 from Mall Galleries. I Can’t find any explanation as to why I should, as an artist over 35, pay twice as much per work as an artist under 35? I […]
Launching a national sculpture competition for student and emerging artists to design large-scale outdoor temporary sculptures using sustainable materials (reclaimed, recycled, raw) is an exciting affair. As artist-in-residence for belvoir Castle & Estate I have this opportunity to think big, […]
While I was neck-deep in dissertation stress, my Dad told me a tale about a man, an axe and a river. For the last, mad weeks of my Masters, the story was a lifebuoy, calmly bobbing in my mind while […]
So its the depths of deepest December and the dark nights are closing in early. So much has happened since my last post before my degree show. I recieved a 2:1 in the end, although fustratingly close to the First […]
Creating a network of rural sculpture trails using RECLAIMED, RECYCLED, RAW (i.e sustainable, environmentally-friendly) sculpture materials is my goal. I have just started planning / organizing the first of these, the Belvoir “3Rs – Reclaimed, Recycled, Raw” Sculpture Trail. Launching […]
