Here not there, Middlesbrough
29 October – 2 December 2010
My most fascinating fleeting memories (back into childhood) are textual–the large, colorful product packaging lettering, billboard lettering—that seems scattered through my thoughts just out of reach in cropped bits and fragments– I refer to these writings that I draw and […]
I’ve made a lot of progress over the last couple of days with video work and with the sticthed map of walks I’m creating, the title of which will be something like ‘The Lost Sail of HMS York’ referring to […]
The Big Draw at the artsdepot has been and gone and all in all it was a good experience. After some initial technical problems installing the work it was a successful and very busy day. Dozens of children visited the […]
Times are lean in our household, very lean. The dog has been throwing up for two days in the garden but no-one has the money to take him to the vet, I’m praying for good weather as we can’t afford […]
This month the Icelandic Embassy in London is hosting an evening of readings by four Icelandic poets – Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, Ragnhildur Jóhanns, Jón Örn Loðmfjörð and Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl – with responses presented on the evening by eight British poets. […]
The motif of ‘barrow as fairy dwelling’, is common in recent folklore. Unfortunately the prevalence of sites which are not gravemounds tends to diminish the significance of those which are, and this eclecticism becomes even more apparent when we include […]
‘Nothing For Sale Except Nothing Itself’ Saturday the 27th November 2010 is ‘Buy Nothing Day’ and as part of ‘b-ART-er’ a Contemporary Art exhibition, Michael Bold has been commissioned to create a work responding to the site, an empty shop. […]
Eva Hesse is an artist I’ve recently come across, I seem to be establishing a theme and a taste for female artists… I would hate to fall into the feminist category of artists as that’s not what I’m about! The […]
I’ve spent a lot of time this week, as I say in my title for this post, undergoing “trial and error” on my practical project. For the most part it has gone fine, I’m coming to some conclusions about the […]
The second exhibition I did in a week was for ‘Squaremile’ at Bridewell Gallery in Liverpool. The Gallery was once an old Police Station/Prison hence the name and the brief was to respond to any place within one square mile […]
It was jolly affair, at last night’s opening of The 2010 Discerning Eye Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. A mixed show ranging from contemporary drawing and painting -Graham Crowley and Tania Kovats – to traditional watercolours and oils. Including examples […]
Domestic interiors will be the focus I think. I’m interested in documenting personal history through the places/spaces. Remnants left of past lives, indentations left in the carpet, sort of. There’s the loss, remembrance and fragments all in one place. Not […]
The first part of the module, Professional Practice has finished, in terms of hours at college. The aftermath will continue into the summer term as we try and organise the group show. We will see if it happens. Now we […]
Train journeys are ideal for playing. With i-stop motion, with digital photos in photoshop. I had a happy 3 hours this afternoon from Paddington to Exeter. I was excited the find the ‘print as flip book’ option in i-stop motion. […]
I’m working with visual memory and text (rather than memory based in human figures and narrative) Especially foreign writing–from travels in Asia and visual influences of written Asian language characters.
I’m working with visual memory and text (rather than memory based in human figures and narrative) Especially foreign writing–from travels in Asia and visual influences of written Asian language characters.
