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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 […]

I’m getting a bit worried as I’m well into the degree now, maybe 8 or 9 weeks and I haven’t really made any new work yet. I’ve talked about it, planned it out in the sketch books, even created proposals […]

Betweenness Catching up with a-n and other magazines that stack up during the months I’m travelling between London and Stockholm is a strange experience these days. I’m starting to feel a distance from some of the current discussions and debates […]

Disaster has struck! My short experimental animations have somehow vanished off the college computer network. And of course, I hadn’t backed them up. I had hoped that the IT man would be able to retrieve them from wherever they’ve gone, […]

Further to yesterday’s post re. studio groups/home-working, today I found this sculpture by Grayson Perry, currently being auctioned to raise money for homeless charity Shelter. It is called Homes Not Studios and is a model of a semi-derelict building, one […]

8th November, 2010. Carnival Clown progress It has been a while since my last journal entry, but I have been working and reworking on the carnival clowns. I have painted out the hand that comes across the red cone hat, […]

11th November 2010 The painting I have entitled Hmmm! is progressing nicely. I have a nice little routine going, one day I work on this picture, the next the carnival clowns, and the next I work on the painting for […]

I started this painting on 20th October, 2010, for the fractured Vision show in Birkenhead Pavilion. It is taken from a royalty free image of a mask submerging into the water. I liked the image as it to me described […]

After, a week of further frustration trying to find inspiration, a visit to the British Art Show 7 in Nottingham yesterday has raised my spirits and filled me with a renewed enthusiasm. Highlight of my day was the video piece […]

Feeling really motivated for a change and have a number of developing pieces and a major project whirling around in my head which will result in work for the (fingers crossed) show we’re working on next year. Now I just […]

The crate has been collected. Phew! Mick on the groundfloor allowed us to pack the work en situ. Given that it weighed 215 kg we were v grateful. But Mick also helped the courier on Wednesday as I couldn’t be […]

I have found a hole in one of the totems – and really can’t work out what has happened to it. It is in a place that is too high to have been made by an animal and I don’t […]

I have spent the past week making Christmas bunting to sell at our school PFA Christmas Fayre. Being a bit of a perfectionist it has me all week to make 6 pieces. Can I charge £100 a string?