It has been a while since I have documented my artistic activity as it has been fairly limited due to work commitments. I had a great deal of trouble casting the bonsai trees at the beginning of my little experiment […]
In response to David Minton’s question on my post #19 A great question David, and straight to the heart of the matter! He asks, ‘How does the work that you make engage the description that you give to it?’ That […]
A series of blastings and filming them. Not all good ‘blasts’, not all worth filming but somewhere in the middle… The quarry manager calls them ‘shot blasts’. Stood waiting for a blast, the siren blaring, I ask what the holes […]
After posting I went on to read Jane Boyer’s latest entry and indirectly she made me remember an incident this week. At a meeting with my arts officer, she kept refering to my work as ‘conceptual’. Do you know, I […]
Waited in. Tubes apparently not loaded onto delivery van due to accident. Will have to wait in again tomorrow. One working day inwhich to drill them all. Drill charged and ready – it will be a long night. I fear […]
Process The way in which we create work has come into focus for me at the moment. Because I am in the ‘spotlight’ so to speak by my hosts, I feel that I should have work to show them. They […]
luckily my mojo has returned. i did a really quick re-edit just before i uploaded it on monday, that is the thing about going back and having another look, sometimes you see things you didnt before, plus it helped that […]
i found a portugal person and a replacement for the netherlands girl that has moved to england. phew, so now i have a roll of kodachrome in every location. i have made a special spreadsheety document instead of my rough […]
These screenprint designs were an interesting project. These were transferred to screens and printed mutiple times, raising questions about the implications of mutiplying illusory space; any illusion is of course, in part, a deceit, so to multiply a lie like […]
This is a still from a video. Sound would’ve been nice to go with this but I’m keeping that to myself!
Smells like my old adversary…The fear of failure again! I have resorted to come to my old friend, my blog. I can ask myself the question here, as it’s like I’m “allowing” myself to “talk”. My blog has become a […]
Just to let you know that the Dialogue exhibition is featured on the art chartons website. This can be accessed on www.arts-chartons.info. The information is in French. This is the 6th edition of the Art Chartrons Festival in Bordeaux. We […]
For interest: a link to Fiona Robinson’s blog about the West of Ireland, including Cill Rialaig http://blankspacebooks.wordpress.com
It’s been a long time since I last wrote here – almost a month! It’s been an extraordinarily rich month, too, which found me stumbling upon so many enlightening & revelatory things, & wishing that I’d had time to blog […]
“Gardens have always attracted me because they are great artificial projects. Decorations, gazebos, rose beds, hedges and greenhouses never change. Greenhouses especially are a sort of sacred place…” – Artist Flavio Favelli These last couple of weeks have been all […]
Well, the first Trossachs Open Studios weekend got off to a very wet start. I had some visitors that weekend from China so I took the opportunity to show them a side of British life they had never seen before. […]
It was a hectic day feeling really run down and low on energy. The day started with a flop after my nocturnal artistic activity!! Thats the thing about Bipolar and being unable to do much at all. I typed up […]
still trying to find out how to do the blogging but here are my video blogs – click on n play!
i am trying to share my videos this hopefully will bring out my voice more. The need to be more audible and projecting my work and processes in engaging with my work is easily done via confessions and this links […]
this video blog is like how i envisage the bipolar disorder – like my moods up n down – and the course has highs and lows too! it is distracting being on the roller-coaster but its fun and a new […]
So 1st tutorial of the year today… My work could benifit from being more chaotic apparently and i could be a bit more dangerous which is something i agree with but don’t know how to approach… but i have 4 […]
Not a soul in today… Thankfully it wasn’t my turn to invigilate. I have to hang Independent Biennial exhibition No. 2 on Thursday…and I had a text today about preparations for independent Biennial exhibition No 3 – just 3 weeks […]
These images of Octagonal Landscapes are actually film stills. The idea with these was to create a fully virtual space, one that was computer generated, but endless. Each film runs in an infinite loop, and is meant to be projected […]
Pyramidal shapes offered another interesting insight into the notion of vitual space – if viewd from the inside the structures look irresistibly like perspective drawing, with the point being the horizon. This suggested to me a space that could reside […]
With my most recent drawing I finally hit on a method that was really challenging; my previous attempts at almost narrative perspective drawing were failures. By keeping the drawings more concise I feel they really succeeded. The idea was again […]