30 years of Japanese Fashion On my recent trip to London to see the family I had a free day and I visited Future Beauty, 30 years of Japanese fashion at the Barbican. This exhibition is the first in Europe […]
On the way to the shops I spotted my third demonstration of the week. The TUC public service unions pre-emptive rally of parliament against the cuts. I got off the bus. I wasn’t sure what was happening, where to stand, […]
Thoughts brought to the surface by Anthony Boswell’s latest post. Like the paintings, these thoughts are a stuttering work in progress. I am aware of some contradictions and confused issues below but not at present of how to resolve them. […]
i decided on monday i would go and take My photo in the project in hemel hempstead today as the weather was going to be dry. well it was dry and beautifully sunny, such a good day for kodachrome. i […]
If beorh had always meant a hill rather than a grave, it is easy to see how the passage of a thousand years might obliterate the memory that certain hills had once been raised over the dead. The notions of […]
WOW! is all I can manage to get my fingers to type at the moment. Many thanks to Sarah Rowles for choosing my blog, along with Jo Moore’s blog, as choice blogs; I am delighted to be chosen with Jo […]
not got as many photos as i would have liked but nether the less been a very productive day… i did manage to photograph a few things i haven’t had chance to… i also worked on a sort of frame […]
Listening to a podcast of Tate’s 2009 Symposium Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape, I heard Susan Trangmar presenting ‘A Play in Time’, a 2-channel video installation shot in a public park in Hove. Trangmar explains how, in this and in other […]
What value does ridiculous tuition fees give to higher education? Will the University degree become a sought, hard earned prize or a commodity of wealth?
The past couple of weeks have been a little dissertation-heavy, but the first draft has been handed in now so I can breathe a temporary sigh of relief and concentrate mainly on my studio practice for a while. I still […]
One of the most interesting spaces in the Lock Up is the exercise yard in which inmates housed in the cells would walk, sit or stand for a period of time. The space has recently been made weather-proof and a […]
The video-based performance piece I want to make involves my walking around the exercise yard – in this case for about an hour. The title – ‘A Walk of 4,342 Steps’ refers to a walk I did on 31st October […]
Sometimes it a pleasure to photograph, transfer, crop, resize images of my work for a portfolio and sometimes it’s a chore. These last few weeks it’s felt like a chore. Though don’t let my dormancy make you think I’ve given […]
“Effortless is the hallmark of real change, and effort creates effects contrary to your aims.” www.creativeconnection.co.uk I’ve just read this as I was thinking about creative connections and found an organisation on-line called Creative Connection. They refer to themselves as […]
Where the random horse came from, New Forest, Hampshire. The trees in the foreground were casting a shadow across the land creating this contrast.
All’s gone quiet from the Council etc, I think I’ll have to keep pushing or the proposal could drown beneath a host of other projects they’re focusing on. I’ve just uploaded a new video work on Axis,’I want a leotard’, […]
What a busy half term I’ve had!! I had to move house recently, against my will – I hadn’t planned for my landlord to seek possession, (I really don’t know why I pay the rent) I still have lots to […]
Week 2 at Can Serrat, and I’m sitting alone in the studio, huddled close to the radiator, although the view outside is of partly cloudy, partly sunny skies. The sound of the trees rustling and the heaters making occasions clicks […]
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Our meeting at the Cill Rialaig artists’ retreat in the far west of Ireland has been a great success. The retreat is based in a village of restored houses in the far south-west of County Kerry. The whole area is […]
Well, the Robin Hood Gardens Estate film was very well received. I got praise from the editor too, but that’s maybe because she spilled the beans on who chose to send film of my painting to the cutting room floor. […]
Another busy hanging week (www.paulparkermanxartist.com www.mcneillglass.com) and a change around of the gallery space making it much bigger and brighter all round. Hopefully the press coverage will increase visitor numbers and Im now in the window (fishbowl!) so pedestrians can […]
Back from a weekend away. Purely by coincidence, the friends we visited live within a stone’s throw of Harrow on the Hill, which made an impressive silhouette against Saturday’s sunset. But back to business, such as it is. I’m going […]
I realise I haven’t written a post for 3 weeks after making the intention to post weekly! Another failure to add to the list for my praxis project – I also have a blank black and white film which I […]
Here are 2 posts of photos of what the other guys on the course put in the corridor show of work in progress. Post 1