The next part of our Professional Practice module is site related drawing. It’s time to get all technical. I’m not srue if I’ll be any good at this. So far we’ve had three different assignments/projects, so it’s been pretty full […]
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
1 October – 28 November 2010
Carrying on with the work I did in Australia, I’ve spent the last couple of days videoing the canvas ‘sail’ that I made there, which was itself made from the pattern of several walks made around Newcastle, NSW. This work […]
I updated my website this morning with some of the work I’ve created since graduating. And you know what? I really like seeing the paintings displayed there. Adding them to my online portfolio has really solidified them for me; they […]
Went to see my Goldfinger four painting hanging in the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize at their Guild home yesterday before it transfers to the WH Patterson Gallery in Mayfair. £1,000 prize has come in handy as I’ve just acquired a new […]
A week spent grappling with the dissertation and shooting and editing video. Next week we have a group trip to London, the idea is to hit as many galleries as possible in three days. Looking forward to the Turner prize […]
Sichuan Institute of Fine Art is divided into 2 campuses. One opposite us (which includes the new Commercial Art course) and one in the north of the city, which we visited today. A huge modernist building, deathly quiet, yet home […]
I’m reminded that I’m someone who likes order and structure. These things have been rather absent from my life recently and I have found it very unsettling and stressful. When I look at the next few months it seems completely […]
Game 30 Novia resumed their conquest for the title with a more than comfortable victory over Lunderbach. Sporting Radio: (pundit 3). ‘Nah – I’m not ‘avin that mate. You know that Lunderbach are one of the sides who’ll never win […]
I have chosen to follow my conviction, rather than my instinct that tells me not to spend too much time at the river, today I returned to the banks of the Yangzte with the intention of making work. On the […]
Usually when you visit an artist’s web site, or show, you see finished work and the pieces the artist wants you to see. Which means you see the things they have selected from the output from their studio. With these […]
Micro art projects; that aren’t *my* projects, but I have been invited to contribute some small part to them: MUBE, (the design museum in Sao Paolo, Brazil) Toy exhibit–the curator, A.F. who has an association with the ongoing Fluxus workings, […]
Quand les gros maigrissen, les maigres meurent. It means: When the fat grow thin, the thin die. A chinese proverb. It’s in French because I stole it from Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle. Language is funny.
I wouldn’t recommend covering your bedroom ceiling in coloured latex, it is, obviously, an extremely messy business and only to be attempted if your bedroom is a bit of a sh*thole to begin with like mine – luckily when I […]
I have just heard that a whole room of Norwich MA students are being given a lecture about my blogs. Hello Norwich This would be funny if they were looking at it live, if not its a bit sad. I’m […]