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
Various venues, Whitstable
19 June – 4 July 2010
The deluge has finally struck, after days of humidity building, and the rain is coming down in solid sheets, making a wonderful melodic percussion on my roof and windows. I tried to attach the umbrella to my video camera but […]
Blueprints Today have been on a Cyanotype Photographic Printing day at St Barnabas Press in Cambridge (http://www.stbarnabaspress.co.uk/_about.htm) led by David Chow. It was after a conversation with Derek at the beginning of the residency when we were talking about the […]
ART HISTORY: Really great trip to the Harvard archive/storage facility in Somerville, near Boston. My meeting with Christina Rosenberger was excellent. Our research interests on Martin are so different, but we had a lot of questions in common and some […]
A friend emailed and said ‘the quarry blast must be a terrible and beautiful experience’. It was. A sharp crack and then the rock fell away. The earth reverberated beneath our feet. Dust the colour of dusk light, peachy and […]
30/06/10 Left Edinburgh at 7am with a filthy hangover from sampling what must’ve been all of the local brews. The train journey to Manchester Airport passed quite quickly with the only activity being a man boarding at Preston insisting that […]
01/07/10 Slept very well and woke up to conversations I later learnt were with the city official sort of like a mayor or presidente. Got directions and a map to the Fresia Gardens and set off, wondering if the forecasts […]
01/07/10 continued So, installation complete, I get to check out the town and traverse up and down the main road and piazzas; along to Piazza Torino and back to Piazza Galimberti with some side street detours and finally decide a […]
01/07/10 continued The performer of the evening’s live art event is dressed as a black latex gimp and is getting the visitors to blow up yellow balloons (!) and write what they find anger in onto the balloon surface. I […]
I asked if i could post this image of Derek’s experimental work in CAD and if he would write something about the image/process….here it is……. “It is my normal practice to use Solidworks CAD software to design within fairly rigid […]
02/07/10 The morning is horrible and through all the sole, sudore, prosecco e birra I am dehydrated like a sundried tomato with a dull ache in my head. I eventually get up and shower and head out to the park […]
Back at the park the Sardinains translate some of their completed booklets to me and then we picnic on cheeses, bread, chilli and beer. There are 3 cheeses Olivier has brought; a hard cheese similar slightly to peccorino, a soft […]
