So it’s started! I started on Monday and came armed with a roll of lining paper, some board markers and not much else. I’d been shown previously about signing in, where you get the keys from, where the kitchen is […]
I’ve been in for 3 days this last week, Monday was a bit weird because it was the ‘first day’, I was a little nervous and although I’d planned what I was going to do, it didn’t feel like I’d […]
Have a site for a Ty Unnos and the landowner is really supportive. Looking for a van at the moment so I can transport materials. I have a few months to stockpile, looking at March 2011 for the construction. In […]
Installing the textile sculptures in the gallery with Benoit last week was remarkably, almost bizarrely straightforward. As with Raphaella, we have worked together on this process before ( on The Gifts ) so we were in sync and focused. As […]
Yesterday was a really good day and the project feels like a real thing now – not just a lot of e-mails, phone calls and boxed up springs. We have put in the stakes ready to support all the tree […]
Tomorrow my only activity will be working on the dissertation. We have under a month until our first draft hand in date. It is in our interest to give in as full a draft as possible. I have my initial […]
So the first response has been done and sent. Created digitally, and sent by e-mail, so it only exists in a virtual sense, but that won’t be obvious to my sister. The apps I used to create the piece did […]
Emergency 2010@The Greenroom What a weekend got to participate in and see lots of new work at the Greenroom, which is always such a treat. On the opening night I particularly enjoyed Allan Taylor’s piece titled ‘Alain D’Aylour’s Affordable Art […]
Dialogue update! We met last Thursday at Peters Grego’s house for some lovely pasta followed by hours of logistical planning. We decided on how our catalogue for the exhibition will look – considering the font style, text size, colour for […]
House and studio move is forcing me to finish the 99. That’s OK but it means I have no time to blog – probably a good thing – no one reads it anyway. So in an effort to catch up […]
Thursday 7 October. Got my work ready to take to the 6 Rooms gallery to hang. I’d been working with carrier bags for about two years now – stripping and interweaving them onto a canvas background. All have remained exactly […]
I am breathing a huge internal sigh of relief as my heart plays double time in my chest. It’s time to go. Yes, we may have mounted the curb twice since leaving Charter van hire and scraped the side of […]
Today I did something quite significant, – I did some work on waterproofing the outside of the studio for the long term. Up until now I have got it habitable but no more. Rollercoasting between confidence and crippling insecurity, I […]
Open studios went well – if a little quiet due to engineering works on the tube. I had some very positive feedback on the work – the map initially draws people in as they can’t resist trying to read it, […]
The Littlest Print Exchange This is the smallest print I’ve made – and the largest edition. It was a good discipline for me to get 50 small prints close to the same. Satisfying though. A fellow printmaker thought they looked […]
This month I’ve spent some happy hours reading the Artists Talking blogs. I’ve been picking a “Choice Blog” for the month, and landed gladly upon David Minton (see this page here). Separately, I’ve been struck by the role of the […]
I have just been catching up with Susan Francis’s blog, ‘Flesh on the Bones of the Belfast Child’ and I came across an entry where she had quoted myself: ‘…Now if I was to create a representational image I use […]
As I touched on in my previous post I was a little nervous about installing my first guerrilla intervention but the speed in which the workmen were progressing imposed on me a natural dead line. The last thing I wanted […]
An arrival at a reduction. An identification with critical moments and a process of discovery. Recommended listening: Chris Watson // Annea Lockwood One project that I’m working on doesn’t seem to be going anywhere for now but that’s OK – […]
I just found out that I didn’t get the residency in Japan I applied for – the one I wanted so much it made me sick. Funny thing is, I’m actually quite relieved and I realised that I really just […]
Artist talks and where they take you. I was invited to give a talk to the Norwich 20 Group (www.norwich20group.co.uk) a week or so back. Its always a good opportunity to get ideas clear and assemble images. Beyond that its […]
I am not required to write a dissertation to complete my degree. Instead at NTU Fine Art students are required to hand in 7 staged pieces of writing beginning with a statement of intent and including two 1000 word essays […]
60 Tubes all drilled. Springs sewn on.