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New Work: http://againstthelightning.com Though I must put my own ideas and impulses on the back burner whilst I am being offered genuine money for commission. I can’t help myself though.

I spent an evening with my slide projectors this week, combining frames from my June/July shoots to create double exposure effects. Turning one bulb on and then the another, I thought about the differences between single and overlaid compositions, the […]

Live and Let Die is finally consigned to the bookshelf reading it was both an exhilarating and excruciating experience. I’ve decided to move into safer fiction for my next book with a rereading of Bruce Chatwin’s Utz, less barracuda wrestling […]

I’m at that point when I need to clear the decks. I need to have a massive brain dump to gain some clarity and to be able to move forward.It’s finding the time and space to do it though. I […]

Have had my exhibition dates moved forward so gonna have to pick up the pace a bit. The exhibition will be January 22nd till March 5th in Oriel Fach, Queens Hall, Narberth. More Dr J Beau images today. There are […]

 My how the time does fly. Today was the day I have both been looking forward to for a year and also the one I have had increasing butterflies about. Yes the day I started to put the show […]

Today Solstice docked in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the 3rd time since I embarked. This is the start of my third week. Each week starts on a Sunday for the crew, this is when all the passengers board each week […]

Ok, I admit it the freshness of this blog has slightly dwindled whereby the last post I wrote was actually written on August 29th, So I’m about a week behind. The ships internet is incredibly slow and slightly frustrating… however […]

There is always some loss I have written about Reverse Engineering before but I’m finding it really interesting. In addition to finishing the installation of the exhibition today I have been doing some more scanning. Derek and Ian (who is […]

Someone commented on Sunday at Hyungji’s opening that I don’t do ‘normal’. Whatever that is? I have to say the last few years have not been dull. Apart from the extraordinary journey setting up the studios and the legal wrangles […]

i just read a document from canada that sets out minimum fee scales for showing artists’ work http://www.carcc.ca/documents/PDFeng.pdf i wonder how culture could be changed to somehow introduce this concept here. any ideas?

I think that my difficulty with the white-cube gallery as a context lies in its finality. Try as it might to be otherwise, the gallery is a place of resolution, the exhibition the ultimate event, the displayed object a full-stop. […]

‘…at the age of twenty-seven, he began work on the spacious gallery in his house in Harley Street, which not only advertised his achievements but provided a more sympathetic setting … than the crowded walls of the Great Exhibition Room […]

For those of you who haven’t seen this already (and it has done the rounds, so you may well have) it isa minimum fee schedule from CARFAC. http://www.carcc.ca/documents/PDFeng.pdf Director, April Britski is working with a-n at the moment on secondment […]

I’ve started to read this really interesting book called ‘The Melancholy Android’ by Eric G Wilson. It documents the practice of android making: when an inventor builds a robot or creature that emulates human form. Frankenstein’s monster would be the […]

I just wanted to round off this blog as it has now ran it’s course. My residency has ended and I have moved away from Stevenage, as I mentioned in my last post. For this blog, I focused on my […]

Spent yesterday evening in the studio, all alone singing to myself along to spotify random songs on the laptop – fab evening and very productive. Have made my ‘shoebox portfolio’ its to go into a large structure in an old […]

I travelled to the north of the island yesterday and visited a number of sites – taking over 600 photos! I must remember to take back up black and white cameras as they are prone to faults and I lost […]

I spent the day today driving down south to first deliver a painting to Fairfields Art Centre in Basingstoke for their September NEW CONTEMPORARIES show and then on to Winchester to pick up two pieces from my Degree Show. I […]

Landmark – Scarborough Crescent Gardens Arts Trail 11.09.2010 entry is free A site specific wet clay installation using eight different clays. The simplicity of the title belies the complexity of its meaning. As part of the Crescent Gardens Arts Trail, […]