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Tom TrevorDirector, Arnolfini has posted this on their website . May be of use…. Why the Arts Matter Key Facts • The UK has the largest cultural economy in the world relative to GDP. • Every £1 invested in culture […]

In May I went on a stone carving course. I’ve wanted to give it a go for a while now: so much of my solo work is spent turning flat paper/pages/material into something 3-dimensional that I thought it would be […]

New artwork on axis – His Parents Bed, computer manipulated stained bedding, have a look! http://www.axisweb.org/seCVWK.aspx?ARTISTID=13808

It was my purest intention to blog regularly, however now that I’m on board and so I’ve discovered that maintaining a ship life is busy and full-on, to say the least. The crew is like one big happy family continually […]

i’m finishing early today. i’ve been affected by things what have happened in the studio today. i’d come in really excited about something i’d done at home over the weekend. i’d found a use for a pile of rejected windows […]

On life: I’ve been in Leeds for a few days doing the Drawing Shed project at PSL. It was a lovely thing to do and although I haven’t really looked at the animation properly yet (I suspect it is slightly […]

Progress through planned obsolescence The book I ordered through the library has arrived. The Waste Makers by Vance Packard. Even though I am fully occupied by long lists of preparations for the exhibition I couldn’t resist a quick look at […]

I’ve been awarded funding to travel to Oslo to attend a conference entitled “Living a Boy’s Adventure Tale: musical interactions in the decades of postmodernism.” It falls neatly in October half term, although the funding doesn’t cover the boys, only […]

In response (part 1) to Rob, Justine and David’s comments on my posting #11, thank you all for your comments, I’m delighted to have sparked such a discussion. Forgive me for being a bit tardy to reply, I am preparing […]

And David (part 2), last but certainly not least, as I said above, I do agree with your comment that making art is socially responsible but not all artists see it that way and not all art is responsible. The […]

Everything has gone a bit topsy-turvy over the last few days, with the news that our landlord is selling our flat & would like us to move out as quickly as we can. In amidst the endless, depressing round of […]

Perhaps its only after being sick in the bathroom you can only really begin to judge the work you make. Today I began the first of four actions for the July Challenge. In a nut shell the challenge was to […]

My mind’s not on art reallly at the moment. I’m trying to focus but my mind is insisting on wondering over my new habit. I’ve taken up a number of new sports and I’m really getting into them and my […]

The past few weeks have been difficult. Working full time at The Shed means having to switch off my creative mind and switch on my organised, spreadsheet focused mind. I sort of can obssess about spreadsheets all day so moving […]

Around a week ago, I found myself wide awake at some unnumbered hour of the very early morning, exhausted, ill, badly jetlagged and at crisis point. The thoughts running through my mind at an uncontrollable rate can be summed up […]

I have started constructing a Floor Plan for my Library influenced by the structure of the old Alexandrina Library , other ancient Libraries and comparing it with contemporary public Libraries build nowdays. The Library of Alexandria by the time of […]

Been back off my Holidays nearly a week, While I was away, I was selected to exhibit with Out Yer Tree in Coventry, which I am very excited about. This is the First time I have been selected for any […]

I’ve been mostly making recently which has been really fun… still not particularly reached conclusions but I’ve got 5 weeks to make decisions before I get back into the studio properly. But I’ve been developing my fence/wall in more 3D […]

I’ve been going a bit nuts for the past week or so. This is often moment when I have my best ideas so I have been holding onto my hat and hoping that something good comes of it. While sitting […]

By the way….. given that I am basically a massive egg head, I sometimes get excited about the most abstract of things. I nearly wet my pants earlier today when I discovered that that temple of academic sexiness The London […]