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While I’m here and am seemingly having a bout of Saturday night insomnia…. I’ll deal with the psychotic cats that I mentioned a couple of posts ago. Just so I’m not keeping you in suspense or anything…… A couple of […]

On 28th October 1828, the Marquis of Hastings sailed into Port Jackson after a 4 month journey from Portsmouth, England. Aboard was Stephen Hedges, the brother of my great-great-great-grandfather, Richard. Today, 172 years later, I took the Manly Ferry to […]

I arrived in Newcastle, NSW yesterday afternoon after a 3 hour train journey from Sydney. The journey itself was pleasant enough, save for the moment a rather loud couple got on and upset the peacefulness of the carriage. She kept […]

At the end of Nobbys beach can be found Nobbys Island. Once a rocky outcrop, the island was joined to the mainland through work carried out by convict gangs between 1818 and 1846. In 1855, the quarried summit of the […]

I know that this project is about hills. When people ask me, What are you working on at the moment? I say, Nothing really … well, I’m just starting a new project about hills but I haven’t actually really done […]

so my speadsheety document is shaping up, i have10 that are in the act of shooting their roll, 6 have been shot and sent towards processing & 6 thet have been uploaded to the group site http://www.flickr.com/groups/kodachrome_pre_paid_p… & 1 that […]

Thanks so much to Rosalind Davis for the warm welcome in her recent blog postings. I am delighted to be a new member of Cor Blimey Arts. We’re already busy at work and it is such a pleasure working with […]

Product Death DatesI have returned to Vance Packard’s book The Waste Makers, written in 1960 it describes in Chapter 7 Planned Obsolescence of Desirability how much style (over function) had a massive influence on our buying habits and of course […]

As part of my research during this residency, I’m undertaking a number of walks in and around Newcastle. During the walks, I write lists of observations; typically things which are seemingly insignificant or everday occurrences. Each walk is also recorded […]

Week 3 I feel settled(ish) in my new environment now. I wanted to make some mess in my studio space this week, and indeed something to talk about, some kind of starting point. Although I’d been here for 3 weeks […]

21st of October Being an artist you have to juggle so much work at the same time and sometimes is so difficult to draw a line of priorities! I had a very productive meeting on my first visit to Queenborough […]

31th of October Last week I had to attend Brighton Magistrates Court and for a first time give evidence. The defendant broke into my studio and not only caused damage to the premises but also to my artwork. I had […]

Its almost crunch time, by midnight I need to have a decision on the October challenge. I have one in particular that I think could be really exciting. The challenge is to learn how to become a professional wrestler. The […]

Last night was the launch of HMS Open Studios 2010 and proved to be the best ever. There were lots of interesting high profile Sideshow events in Nottingham so the competition was really hot. However, people from 8wks to 80yrs […]

Although you can see the map of Manhattan seems like a grid system, the streets in New York are more complicated. The streets are not straight and they are affected by the occupations and ethnic background of residents and other […]

Although you can see the map of Manhattan seems like a grid system, the streets in New York are more complicated. The streets are not straight and they are affected by the occupations and ethnic background of residents and other […]

I should say a word or two about why I am learning Chinese and what the point of the project is I guess. Well in a nutshell I want to understand a bit better my relationship to national and cultural […]