Met a lovely guy yesterday, a letterpresser living near here with the most amazing shed/studio. Shtudio? Anyway, see picture for all it’s glory. He said many wise things, one of which was ‘it doesn’t matter what people say they can […]
Today the heat was unbearable. The mercury hit 110 Fahrenheit, which is 43 degrees, and definitely the most intense heat I’ve ever experienced. Filming outdoors during the heat of the day was out of the question: I did try, got […]
We found ourselves on the top of a hill, in a town surrounded by ancient walls. There, after all elements of self-clarification we lost sight of everything. “If you get as far as Rome you can go a little further […]
Taking place over two days (Fri 2nd – Sat 3rd) this Saturday saw Agnes Nedregard undertake her new commissioned work ‘Pilgrimage of the Fool’ The project’s pilgrimage format was kind of split into two sections that spread over the two […]
As Rob says, my health does impact on my work but nonetheless I managed to write a whole paper on autobiography without once mentioning anything to do with health! Although autobiography or the personal can’t help but be in one’s […]
The Brewery Arts Centre 30th April 2010 Preview night of the exhibition and it’s underway – that cocktail of people and art brought together in one place for a brief encounter. Always unpredictable in it’s results and, seen from a […]
Its been an intense couple of weeks and it seems that my focus has drifted slightly from this project to other seemingly more pressing matters. Last Tuesday saw me in London for a job interview, after which I decided to […]
Oh and I forgot to mention…. I’ve dug out this exhibition catalogue for a Haywood touring exhibition that Jill Bennett mentions in her book Empathic Vision (see post from 24th June). It uses Trauma mostly in relation to a more […]
Is the studio a space, or a state of mind? It was about this time last year, and in almost identical circumstances, that I was obsessively desperate to be back in my studio. I had work in the Venice Biennale […]
Paiwand 2, An-nisa 2 This work is going to be as much about absence as it is about presence.. particularly in relation to Paiwand. I see new policy on Afghan minors affecting this group already. On Friday we expected up […]
Happy Holiday! It was a day off on Monday following July 4th, although it didn’t affect life here very much. We got into the spirit of things as best we could, by staying up beyond 12 for the first time […]
Being on the other side of the table in an interview situation is certainly more taxing than I ever thought or gave the position credit for. I have always imagined (pre-interview) that interviewers were half bloodthirsty ogres and half Jeremy […]
Success! Well some more progress anyway. I have managed to get some paper from East Finchley Library- thank you to the nice ladies there – and yesterday I spoke to my daughters school about the project. Last week the children […]
For June I accepted the following challenge: June Challenge ‘Test your physical and mental agility to the limit by appearing on a television quiz show or game show.’ Challenged by Anneka French Now that’s a challenge that Im quite excited […]
Factory as Sales Tool I have reading about architecture and in particular Gillian Darley’s book Factory. In chapter 6 she discusses Factory as Sales Tool ….”The Factory is its own most effective shop window, conveying an image of modernity or […]
