Page 2000 – a-n The Artists Information Company

During Walk No.4 I discovered a sign entitled ‘Undermined’ about the coal industry in Newcastle. Given the importance of coal to the area, I’ve reproduced the information below in its entirety. ‘Awabakal clans used Newcastle’s coal in their fires and […]

Reading Performance I found this resource on the Live Art Development Agency website please follow the link below for the full guide. In this post I have taken a section of the text which questions the transference of ‘experience’. http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/Study_Room/guides/rachel_lois_clapham_guide.html […]

A month since the last post and work is underway for the visiting artists’ show toward the end of November. I spent quite a long time collecting images from newspapers and realised gradually that i kept coming back to the […]

I’m just putting the final touches to a short piece about how artists are handling the cuts to the arts (always the longest part of the process these ‘touches’). It’s been a good reminder that the conversations that go on […]

I’m very pleased to be able to conclude this blog about the making process of my monumental artist’s book Thames to Dunkirk, and my online interactive installation The Dunkirk Project, by reporting that the British Library has purchased Thames to […]

I had earmarked today as a reading day but with the temptation of the face mask sitting on the side in the kitchen waiting to be de-moulded, guess what option won? Yes, the face mask…so after my trip into Uni […]

Today I’m continuing to reflect on what led me to the foot of the hill. There’s no doubt that the seed was sown during Festial. One of the positive things about that project’s structure was the need to make spontaneous […]

The Photograph 1. What we see Our gaze scans across a square, flat, modernist concrete building, the windows obscured by foliage. Above the house a bright blue sky shines in the spring sunshine. Our eye travels down to the wooden-fenced […]

I have selected the site for my next endeavor. It could be said that work on this next piece is well under way. Unfortunately however, a weeks break working in the real world and financial worries have broken my stride. […]

Hurrah, a-n is out and my letter is published!There is another interesting letter there and a scary one from the RA…. I hope I have given the argument about open submissions a slightly different insight. I guess I shall find […]

Someone expressed an interest in setting up studios on the ground floor at Harrington Mills. He had seen my blog. However, I went through the sums and showed him that it would be too expensive and quite risky. It’s a […]

This past week I’ve been trying to concentrate on a piece I’m working on for a project called Global Echo. Which is a print based project. The brief calls for an edition of 10 of one print to be sent […]

I’ve been curating an exhibition called ‘Rivesaltes: Landscape of Trauma’ which is showing locally before it tours. It is a show including the work of artists with whom I have collaborated – sound: Lois Laplace, Blaise Merino; sculpture: Deev Vanorbeek; […]

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 […]