Finding a balance as an artist blog: There has been a good deal of discussion on the blogs over the last few weeks about ways in which we operate as artists. This covers a vast range of issues from making […]
20 th June Meeting with Adam Chodzko in Whitstable. 21th of July Meeting with Simon Evans in West Peckham, Kent, to discuss a possibility of collaboration on the Romany project. The afternoon when very well and there was a mutual […]
3rd of August Back at St Bede’s. Matthew O’Donovan and myself finished the stuccowork in July and this was left to dry for few weeks. Now I am back and together with Teresa Llewellyn working on the painting and finally […]
6th of August I had my second interview for the Southgate Project in Bath and I am so happy to say that I have won the project. This will be an amazing opportunity and really looking forward to working with […]
9th of August Artsway Associates meeting with Paul Hobson from CAS at Artsway in the New forest. Paul Hobson covered (a) Strategies related to developing public collections of contemporary art – challenges facing public collections, approaches to acquisitions, the work […]
Nesting before taking Flight But unlike the birds, I’m taking my nest with me. And instead of the beak, I’m using a camera to pluck twigs, vines and other bits of undergrowth from my parish countryside to build up a […]
Packages It is astounding the number of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, formatting gaffes and just plain bad writing one can squeeze into a document of 40,000+ words. On Friday I spent a full day in a London café marking up […]
It’s difficult to plant your flag in the ground when your position keeps shifting. By which I mean, I’ve done so much reading and thinking and discussing over the past few days; I’ve been privileged enough to hear so many […]
Dilemmas An inevitable part of this project is dilemmas, hand in hand with decisions. I am finding it challenging to determine which of my current selection of challenges for August is in fact the most challenging. I have so far […]
10 days to go. I have a two metre size map of the island ready and I am currently debating whether I can settle for mixed primary coloured indicator pins or hold out for white only. The ideas are starting […]
Working with an image has definitely helped me to push my work forward even though I felt uncertain about what the end results might produce compared to my results so far. Producing work for an exhibition has accelerated my development […]
The Search Party event is just around the corner. Next weekend they will take on Lincoln in an epic table tennis tournament. Our intern Bethan has manged to get the Mayor to play the opening game, which promises to be […]
19 August, Birmingham. I’ve come to do the rounds of some of the art exhibitions, in particular Steve McCurry’s photographs. These are stunning/amazing/worrying/frightening etc depending on the subject and your/my reading of them. What interests me these days in exhibitions […]
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, was my next venue. If you haven’t been there, go. A brilliant, focused, gallery. I found it a few years ago (it wasn’t lost), along with Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Bilston Craft Gallery. In my […]
Refining ideas The other week I presented my plan for the installation to a large-ish group of staff at NPG and a rep from Paiwand (reps from the other two groups weren’t available) at a meeting facilitated by Louise. I […]
A recent awardee of Arts Council England’s Grants For The Arts program, I am participating in a 2 month residency investigating post-colonialism and the uncanny body in Saint Louis, Senegal. With additional support from WAAW Centre for Art, this blog […]
C/O Gallery Berlin, Berlin
12 December 2009 – 28 February 2010
