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Nina and I both started work today. After piecing together a satalite view of the local area the day before, from google maps, Nina set out to find the places suggested to her by Sarah Sanders. Sarah visited Chongqing about […]

Yuan Jia Ping is a large shopping district close to where we are staying. The city centre is much larger but it’s more difficult to get to and Yuan Jia Ping has pretty much everything we might need: local shops, […]

I’ve been preoccupied by the idea of ‘home’. The floods in Cornwall have transformed small, familiar places into news; a private & internal language made public. My family moved to Cornwall when I was 10, just at the tipping-point of […]

I finally finished stitching together the canvas pieces for a workI have tentatively called Repaired Sail of HMS York (1828), refrerring to the prison hulk on which Stephen Hedges was incarcerated before being transported to Australia. The hulk was a […]

it gives me pleasure to add another post here. since august the group has been constituted, opened a bank account and is in talks with a local council about staging an event next year. today we’ve met to discuss our […]

These are extraordinary times…no work, no money, no hope…no…not no hope…it’s the hope that keeps me going… www.artswain.com

I enjoyed The Late Shift yesterday evening, and it’s given me a lot to think about. Watching performance – I like it, I realise, and what I respond to is the sheer ephemerality of it as a medium. As someone […]

A Fork in the Road. Now that funding for this…….whatever it is……..artist residency position….. project based learning opportunity…..community engagement programme or is it just something I wanted to do, has got sponsors, stakeholders and other peoples agendas and money interwoven, […]

Prior to leaving England, and forging a project over the framework of my first Artist’s residency, I thought it only natural to research a little into where I am going. The most strikingly fascinating thing I have discovered so far, […]

Tomorrow sees the opening of the CUBEopen exhibition. This is the one I applied for (without certainty) and mentioned in the blog. It’s usually a good exhibition and this year I am excited to see the work and to be […]

Computer Love This week I have been researching how to create a computerized voice. I want to use this audio style and live translation of the Chinese New Year, TV Gala show video in my performance at the Chinese Art […]

“the accident, which eludes the laws of reason, is seen by Arp to be the key to life and creation. Chance is the spearhead in an attack against reason”. I love researching and finding a sentence that sums up what […]

Just time for a quick post today as we’re off out to The Late Shift at SCVA in Norwich. This is a fantastic free event, giving performance and installation artists an opportunity to put something on ‘for one night only’. […]

Drawing trees and elephants Never mind: How to emerge? What about: How to make work? Or, at least, how to think about it? That is the current question. Reading and drawing is often my way in. Drawing is a direct […]

Standing with the Mandela statue outside the Royal Festival Hall, London, plenty of people rushed passed and through and in front. I wouldn’t blame them, the wind was howling and it was winter-dark. Mandela meanwhile stood monumental. Definitely at one […]

There’s nothing like being unwell and lacking energy and will power to do anything, that gets you thinking what is the point of anything? When you reach a low and are wallowing in that bottomless pit, you allow yourself to […]

Invites have gone out, eek! Millspace at Armley Mills Sara Brannan Artist in Residence TRANSIENT Exhibition Opening Saturday 27th November 3pm – 5pm It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the opening of the latest MillSpace artist […]

Been working with sound a lot this week… I’ve made 2 versions of a work to be installed in indoor public spaces…i’m thinking librarys, hospitals, etc… bassically each work is around 15 mins long and each have 3 of my […]