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Sinta Werner The other show that I particularly liked was Sinta Werner’s show Along the Sight Lines. This was at the Nettie Horn Gallery on Vyner Street. She deals with space, how an image can be manipulated to show a […]

More Hot Chestnut talk: Stewart Home The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI) Paul Conneally one of my favourite quotes from Thesis X1 […]

Novia extended their lead at the top of the league to two points by beating a resilient Bolsov 2-1. Nova’s boss has been fined by The Sporting Council for recent comments directed at top board officials. Tranquilayers looked visibly stunned […]

On Thursday night I went to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to hear Ailis Ni Riain’s latest piece. I say “hear”, but “experience” is a more suitable word… Like myself, Ailis is a keen collaborator and loves to work with […]

Before going away I stumbled across the work of a polish graffiti artist on-line. ‘Truth’ has been making really interesting architectural graffiti for some time. The pieces are made from polystyrene then attached to urban walls and surfaces complimenting the […]

On Monday 28th January 1828, a sawyer by the name of Richard Burgess was travelling from Abingdon to Oxford with a cartload of bone for sale in town. On the road to Oxford, Burgess met with three men; Stephen Hedges […]

When I was young I liked to collect crystals. I was never too interested in their names, their properties, never sought to get one of every kind or display them proudly on my bookshelf. I kept them in my pockets, […]

Tiny space blog: I have just got back from doing the Showreel project in Milan and it has given me much to think about. http://www.showreelproject.com/ Aside from the joy of amazing food and sunshine, the whole experience was a pleasure. […]

In the closing pages of Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre’s protagonist listens for the last time to a voice singing on a familiar gramophone record, and he writes: “Couldn’t I try … Naturally, it wouldn’t be a question of a tune … […]

i have not blogged fro ages. in my head it is the immortal excuse of “being too busy” but i know that really, it has more to do with confusion and befuddlement and not knowing how to make sense of […]

Oh dear! Dissertation mad focus is getting in the way of sharing my potentially briliant (or more likely, jumbled) thoughts with the a-n crew. So i thought I’d post my freelance journal from my website, and also a couple of […]

Rather than a website for the moment I’ve set up a blog as website at http://studio308ltd.wordpress.com/. There isn’t much content yet but at least I have it up and running and structured more or less as I want, thanks to […]

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 […]

ENEMY OF INTELLIGENCE Things are hotting up. This week has seen several jounalists calling me to see if I would ‘allow’ or even ‘encourage’ the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Koran. I explained that people […]

Still Life: Unwittingly appropriate it seems. I had a planning meeting yesterday to establish this residency with the men who count butterflies (though my contact is actually female) and the other stakeholder in the residency scheme. Who are The Friends […]

After enrolling back at college I had a gallery day yesterday, and saw some really interesting work. I went to the jerwood drawing prize, tate modern & Vyner street where Salon Art prize had its PV. My head is so […]