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The big coal ships have fascinated me ever since I first saw them when I arrived in Newcastle. Like the huge clouds above them, they seem on the face of it not to be moving, but rather – like a […]

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MONSTER In the summer a group of us from college got together to put on a show. It was called monster, thinking in terms of Frankenstein to highlight the problems of disparate artists coming together to make a show. I […]

EXPERIMENTS I have set myself a new method of working that incorporates a set day at the studio every week. This is to insure that my studio work is the continuing force that guides my research practice and enables experimentation […]

AESTHETIC JOURNALISM by ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI When researching for a lecture by the artist URIEL ORLOW at college I read a preview of this book and found links to my work and ideas. Here are some quotes that I am thinking […]

URIEL ORLOW is interested in what happens in the shadow of great narratives of history. Some ideas he presented that interest me are: Heterotopia – spaces in our society that are outside of society such as hospitals, prisons etc. Uriel […]

I’ve been a bit full steam ahead with my head down concentrating on work and now I’ve got a deadline in a few days to name the show and come up with some text for the info board. It’s got […]

i am scanning had film arrive from france, netherlands, austria & norway. im having trouble deciding which images to choose. i was choosing 2from each location tho the netherlands has 5 images that are almost identical so do i just […]

Well, I’m off painting my second response. I was quite nervous opening the package containing my sister’s first response piece. What if I hated it? What if I was annoyed by it? How would I be able to articulate my […]

Recent discussions have centred around the mixing of time and place. I’ve been thinking about all the places I’ve lived throughout my life. All the homes I’ve made in differene places and the time I’ve spent there. The passing of […]

During the first week of this residency, I carried out a number of walks, the routes of which I recorded using GPS.Collecting all these walks together, I created a map of all the walks which can be seen in two […]

Water and a sink – the studio can function…

It seems appropriate to post about explosions on bonfire night. As part of my exploration of how the stones in the quarry fracture, I’ve created a small work of fractured stones held together by the shot blast wire.

Still trying to get to grips with where ‘hills’ as a stilll-woolly concept might interface with an art project that I will feel passionately involved with for six months – and beyond. And further, of course, be engaging and thought-provoking […]

Another silent interlude. I’ve a post saved, half-written, about art fairs & gallerists, but it doesn’t seem relevant any more (& I’m sure that any readers will guess my views on the matter!). I’ve been battling bad luck at every […]

Two more possible photographs for this project in its final weeks. One shows the vast collection of fish species in jars, in a refrigerated room in the natural history museum, Berlin.

On the train yesterday I was reading the London Review of Books (having unrelatedly had a pot of tea with four words in its name at the LRB Cake Shop the very same day) (and cake). One of the articles […]

Flooded fields, early morning Germany. This is the kind of photograph that inspires painting as it has an enigmatic quality.