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I AM NOT IN SWITZERLAND.

I have (at the eleventh hour as usual) entered Standpoint Futures. A residency at Standpoint Gallery. Again I have ambivalent feelings about the whole thing. The entrance fee of £12 put me off. Having to get a reference put me […]

Took part in Quad Debry’s GLEAM FESTIVAL 12 Nov-21 Nov. I was commissioned by Derby Museum and Gallery to include images of their collection in Coda Software and projected onto the building opposite. It proved a great success as the […]

Everything is healing nicely and i am happy with the amount of Dr J Beau stuff (for the time being) in frames. Next Mr Herbert Haut. Mr Haut’s work has always been hard to frame. Mostly photographs that document evidence […]

Spending some time reading. Letters between the Wordsworth’s and the Beaumonts. John Constable considered his time in the area as life changing. He spent many hours sketching in the gardens of Coleorton Hall and copying some of Beaumont’s collection of […]

right. degree show. looming. lots of work. just paid £50 towards it because noone wants to bake cakes.

I feel a bit giddy, since almost completing the June challenge to appear on a TV show, I seem to have a new bubble of energy. On Monday I went to Glasgow to film a new episode of The Weakest […]

Thinking collage Events have largely overtaken any making of art outside computer stuff this week, but my thinking has been centred on collage. I have started using paper in some work especially when working on panels, blank paper and some […]

In my foraging I discover that NW Leicestershire was once the centre for English cultural thought with Wordsworth, Scott, Constable and many more spending prolonged periods at Coleorton staying with George Beaumont – style arbiter and prime mover in starting […]

I learned a few things last week while I was on holiday. Or I kind of knew these things already, but had them confirmed. i. Cycling, playing badminton and swimming every day is amazing. I need more exercise/time outside, and […]

I have spent some time stretching and priming a number of canvases. I am making some paintings using, so far, primary colours. I have in mind surfaces divided centrally. Beyond that I do not know. I painted some of them […]

There are ways of saying things. My previous post was an attempt to look at some everyday happenings. But it might have been written differently. I’ve had this idea for primary coloured pictures with a line down the middle. I […]

I had a commission to make a performance for Chisenhale and finally it became a huge memory exercise. Did the piece on Sunday and the mind feels like it has capacity once again to learn things. I had to stop […]

Phtotographs of my work from the ‘b-art-er’ exhbition November 2010 Press release for ‘b-art-er’ Curator5 present b-art-er a group exhibition in an empty shop unit British high streets have changed forever, it is estimated around 13% of UK shops are […]

I’m finding photographs as well as film are becoming important. I’m using them more and more to make connections, or just to ask questions. The boulder just outside the studio window is intriguing me. Why is it there? Why hasn’t […]

Zheng Li keeps an immaculate studio; downstairs his paintings are wrapped in plastic and propped against the wall and the upper floor houses a collection of empty frames stacked according to size. The studio furniture is sparse and at a […]

Here are some images of things I have found in the street. In some cases, things that I wish I’d made. There is a haphazard feeling to life in Huang Jai Ping. If people need some sort of structure to […]

I am a problem finding artist as opposed to a problem solving one. I pose questions to myself that I don’t always have the answers to. My current question is: How can I make the image move or create a […]

OK, I was being subtle. I have finally calmed down enough to blog about last month’s trip to Oslo: http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.com/2010/11/ha-conference-and-exhibition-oslo.html The overexcitement of seeing the man from that iconic video standing right there in front of me made me post […]

Once upon a time , well four years ago, you just wrote a blog and posted it. No more. Today you have got to make it interactive ( I am struggling with that) multi-media rich ( photos, videos,) and of […]

Let’s face it – writing proposals and applications isn’t interesting. And neither is writing about writing proposals and applications. And seeing as that’s primarily what I’ve been doing pretty much non-stop for the last months, you’ll be understanding the reasons […]

December really does need a few more days in it. Family/home life is so busy at the moment and I really don’t know how I’m going to fit in any coursework, unless I give up sleeping. I can feel myself […]

i’ve been thinking alot about the degree show and what i want to show… i’m thinking of a space with a gathering of objects which sort of sum up my concerns, although this space will not be an installation as […]

The London Years