When we walk in the city, we don’t only see the street view but also hear the sound from cars, pedestrians, broadcast in the underground, and the river beating the bankside. Because we usually daily routines, we may hear the […]
When we walk in the city, we don’t only see the street view but also hear the sound from cars, pedestrians, broadcast in the underground, and the river beating the bankside. Because we usually daily routines, we may hear the […]
The river and other things There is no doubt that the journey we made to the river yesterday has touched upon my psyche. Yesterday we felt the affects of time spent at the river, a slight headache and nausea, perhaps […]
Building continues in the hut laboratory but the priority for the coming week is to give the huts a weightier context. I’ll be out and about with the video cameras building more makeshift shelters using limited materials. Meanwhile the collection […]
I’ve been doing some homework (reading, as always) and in the course of telling my patient husband about what I had read, we had a bit of a verbal tussle. But I’m very grateful for the tussle because it sorted […]
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.Spinoza I’m about to start work on my next Still Life. So far, I’ve made “portraits” of an actor, a singer and a painter. The point of […]
What am I doing? My recent practice has been concerned with layers, boundaries and journeys through spaces, as well as architectural forms. This has led me towards looking at the urban environment. Spaces that interest me range from small and […]
Oh my goodness I love paint! Work, the computer stuff that is my job has been very intense lately. Just modeling and texturing, but there is a lot to get done… busy busy busy so that is 32 hrs of […]
A video afternoon. The huts tip-toe around the rather nostalgic, more sentimental and romantic aspects of home. I’d like the project as a whole to also deal with some of the darker themes such as ownership, encroachment and the universal […]
I’m into countdown now, as the opening is this Saturday the 27th November, and there’s still loads to do! I’ve spent the last three days glue to my mac editing the animations which I’m really pleased with. There is a […]
The photographs of dead birds which I took on Newcastle beach are particularly poignant; the lifeless bodies which had once soared high in the sky above are analogous with lost moments in time and, indeed, with the photograph itself. Dying […]
Liverpool Biennial?s ?Touched?, Liverpool
18 September – 28 November 2010
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
18 September – 28 November 2010
The River.The Yangtze runs through Chongqing and its bank is about 20 minutes walk from our studio, via the power station. As we get closer to the river, the journey becomes more difficult. The pavement narrows, as the number of […]
I need to upgrade my computer ( Macbook or Imac? can’t decide) so I visit theApple store in Glasgow . The place is heaving with young people , along with a sprinkling of oldies likemyself. I need sharp elbows to […]
The joys of UBUWEB when you’re up a mountain can’t be over-estimated. Last night, unable to sleep, I watched a video by Alex Bag, Untitled Fall ’95 (1995), a sly, funny take on the stereotypes surrounding artists and consumer culture […]
Roman Ondak Retrospective, 2005 This is a series of 50 wall labels bearing the titles of Ondak’s 50 former works. (I can’t remember what the titles were and I can’t find them online, if anyone knows this work please let […]
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY I don’t normally choose to go and see films but a friend recomended this and I went to see it without having read anything about it. I really enjoyed it. Christian Marclay had put together 24 hours of […]
TRANSMISSION Adam Dix, Alex Hoda, Katie Paterson I thought this show at Haunch of Venison was really interesting. Adam Dix creates “portentous (omenous), science-fiction-inspired scenes in which regimented or ritualistic figures are posited in a strange and indeterminate relationship with […]
Game 28 Novia took a giant step towards their 1st Sporting title after coming back from a goal down against Bayerns to win 2-1. Sporting radio: ‘There was a real buzz around the Bayerns stadium at the start of the […]
Looking at colour, light and space for this series of work, I will be addressing aspects of an interior room. I have chosen to work on a room with a view of a brick wall. To initiate this series of […]
Week 6 After a weekend in Bath I entered the week feeling properly recharged. It was nice to get out of London for a couple of days, it definately did me good. Tuesday was quite a long day. I went […]
Since returning to England this morning after my residency in Australia, I’ve been looking at my notebook, and feel it’s worthwhile putting the pages up on, in particular those relating to the walks I did. So reproduced with this blog […]
I missed my 3 day slot. Do I feel cut up about it? Not really. As life tends to just get in the way. When I was growing up, I used to love the film The Sound of Music. Let’s […]