A great piece of writing from Lewis Biggs, Director of the Liverpool Biennial on how the cuts affect those on a low income and the whole bank/gambling issue. http://blogs.biennial.com/2010/11/02/the-cuts/ I wish more people in positions like his would state their […]
Going through my Powerpoint presentation for my Degree Project was good to have done and i love talking about Art, though writing about Art is difficult. Its difficult having an illness and studying. Its something that i have to live […]
Legacy 10 publication in support of Coalition Government encouragement of private funding of the arts, coinciding with changes to Inheritance Tax.
Two part document, consisting of conversations with participants of arts projects in North Liverpool, and an in-depth discussion of LARC supported art-interventions in the same city area.
A strategic framework for the arts.
Showflat, Online
22 October 2010 to 23 October 2010
Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
18 September – 28 November 2010
Ibis Hotel, Nottingham
30 October – 20 December 2010
On Sunday 31st October 2010 I burnt 27 pictures of people I love. On this day the thinness of the barriers between this world and others is at it’s thinnest. The burning hopefully helps things through and shares the love […]
I found this hen pheasant by the side of the road, relatively undamaged. Due to the recent spell of coldish weather, I have been able to spend some time drawing it. It tested my capacity to see what I was […]
Ruptured something in my foot last week whilst making a mould for a giant jelly baby… so I have been off for a while. I’ve come back today to find (as I do each monday) that I get nothing done […]
Trapped in my lair suffering from a depressive illness I have been working on an arts council grant application to lure thousands of artists to their deaths. Today I finally pressed the “submit” button (actually I pressed it about 10 […]
The day for my face cast arrived! very excited if not a little nervous too… as you will see from the photographs it was a surprisingly neat process, but a bit un-nerving to begin with,the cold alginate trickles down your […]
On my hill I wait for wind And on my hill I wait for wind And on my hill I wait for wind And on my hill I wait for wind …. (Fountain, from the album Dry by P. J. […]
The lurgi has finally got me! i thought i was going to get away with not getting this cold but i’m really ill. So i’ve just missed the first day back after half term which is a shame as i’ve […]
a few more pics of their work… i think it would be nice to display these somewhere although i ended up using cartridge paper that wasn’t that thick and they havn’t turned out as well as they could on decent […]
We can only guess at the number of visitors who came to the Open Studios. Some signed in, but many didn’t. We estimated about 500 people… which isn’t bad on a tiny marketing budget. A great weekend! After little movement […]
The roof timbers for the ty unnos are now on site and I have a source for a large number of wooden pallets – ideal. I’ve begun a series of small scale models of huts and habitations. These are constructed […]
Up to Sheffield for the Documentary Film Festival this Thursday. My paintings got me noticed by a young film maker who wanted to include me in his short on the controversial Robin Hood Gardens Estate. Sadly me painting the picture […]
I keep beating myself up about some aspects of my work. I’m not sure if it is unhealthy, or, more positively, simply a way of appraising it. I suppose the answer to that depends on mood. Perhaps it is the […]
I’m still cycling away for the mapping 1 show – below is a video clip of 2km of object 4 moving on: its a small world but on a bike it feels big i’ve been drawing and making notes quite […]
The visionary council housing developments of the 1960’s may be far from the decaying estates of today, but can we embrace their utopianism. My paintings deal with the now and the then, the optimism contasting with the look of wear […]
