What is the purpose of the book nowdays? At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer……….for the last three years I attempt to re-contextualize books that become ‘significant objects’ […]
Soup’s on. How depressing is that? Shouldn’t be even thinking about putting carrots with coriander for atleast another month but this morning was really quite chilly! It’s been ages since my last post. Having spent the holidays working our way […]
I am very very tired. The reason for my lack of sleep last night was a precipitous return to work. The annual recall to the office always seems too early after an adventurous summer and this year has been no […]
In preparation for returning to Capetown after 35 years or more I have read Antjie Krog’s ‘Country of My Skull'(Cape 1998);her account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings between 1996 and 1998. It relates to the period of SA […]
i like to sit back with a cup of tea and meander through my daily four of the clock. fortunately today i find myself alone in the studio so i;ve got my feet up on the furniture, as no one […]
The Green Man of Bamberg He looks so cross with the human race. I was thinking trees…….. about oak trees and inevitably ended up looking round a book shop for stuff on green men etc and shocked myself as I […]
Continuing on my quest to create the worlds first invisible artwork (and impossible to photograph), the anaglypta text reads, ‘I set my cassette recorder to record and left the room, leaving my parents decorating. When I returned to play back […]
During a visit to www.metalculture.com/liverpool/ this week, I met sculptor Phil (www.artinliverpool.com/phillockhart) who will be showing in the same forthcoming exhibition there as Ailis and myself. We had a good natter and after the traditional (and enjoyable) artist-meets-artist moan and […]
BOOKMARKING PAGES Further into ADD TO MY LIBRARY –What Is the Purpose of the Book today? Looking at relating BOOK shows in galleries. This one at V&A takes a less-critical approach. In 2008 an exhibition at V&A has shown the […]
First time back in the studio since getting back from France. It’s good to get back and touch base, all the insecurities you feel as an artist come to the surface if your not working (I’m following all the blogs […]
I have had this photograph selected for the Fabric of the Land exhibition at Aberdeen University, School of Geosciences. I am really pleased especially as it’s one of the first lot of research photographs for Memory of Fire.
I found an extract from Georges Perec’sThe Infra-Ordinary, which I loved, and which chimes beautifully with much of what I’m thinking of these days: ‘How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs everyday: the […]
Today I spent the afternoon with Sarah, one of the curators at YSP and had a good look around my gallery space (mine for a few weeks of 2011 at any rate). It was brilliant to sit down and find […]
