Gallery tour script ideas *Speak in a computerized voice Meet & greet visitors take them inside We all face the window and wave to people Please take your shoes off Archway placed around glass door Room is lit red with […]
I often see mentioned the failure of Post-Modernism to connect with history. I pay attention to that. To be outside of history is to be lost, ungrounded. In my own work I have striven to relate to history; place myself […]
The last week begins: the last two students are preparing for their deadline, and I am preparing my invoice for expenses. I’m looking forward to seeing the sketchbooks, as I think they’ve been doing quite a bit of drawing in […]
Showtime today, July 13 2010.
North Yorkshire Open Studios 2010 – what a worthwhile opportunity to grab. The Sculpture Garden is a perfect venue for displaying the works alongside each other but on different levels and suddenly my tiny studio seemed quite big, cleared of […]
For those of you who want to see more of my work and experience, I now have a website which you can use to buy works, contact me or arrange visits to my Sculpture Garden in sunny Scarborough.
i read somewhere that green is an agressive colour. i like it. i like it because i have been exposed to way to much blue. way too much blue in my past work. blue was the colour that always got […]
I see my son Moses, 3 in October, grasping for complete sentences now to communicate, reaching for the fullness of a new language that we share, and I realise, here in my studio as I do experiments with the ideas […]
An-nisa Visit to the NPG (1) Saturday’s session at NPG with An-nisa was a lot more satisfying than Friday. Five girls came, with Humera and we had a full day. We began with a warm -up, doing I minute portraits […]
An-nisa NPG Visit (2) What i understood from talking to Humera in response to some of the work we were looking at is that there is a distrust of work that is overtly created from ‘ego’, with the self at […]
results have been out for ages, although we were lead to expect them later this week. unit marks were posted on our university website back in june. so people have all worked out their own banding. there was no build […]
I have just spoken to another local school about the project. I hope they got what I was after – although I teach I still find I get very nervous when talking about my own work. They were very attentive […]
Hull “Memory, like the mind and time, is unimaginable without physical dimensions; to imagine it as a physical place is to make it into a landscape in which its contents are located, and what has location can be approached. That […]
Though I have missed you so very much I am standing outside Hull Paragon Station, holding a sign in my hands. Slowly people gravitate towards me. A gentleman in a straw hat walks up to me, and not looking at […]
ART HISTORY: Using the Wi-fi on the Megabus to New York City! On my way to look at some Agnes Martins, Barnett Newmans, Mona Hatoums and Yayoi Kusamas for my dissertation. Also meeting a friend that I haven’t seen for […]
Went to see the Agnes Martin show at Kettles Yard on Saturday. It was wonderful to step out of the heat into the gallery and enjoy the faded colours; the bands of paint which the pencil lines cannot quite contain; […]
I’m now nearly halfway through ‘Knitted Month No. 3’. For this one I’ve knitted a piece 31 rows x 31 stitches, as before, and each day I unravel one row and knit it onto a new piece. The two hang […]
Elastic Residence, London
2 – 18 July 2010
