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Public art projects, residencies and commissions in non-gallery spaces.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
15 June – 30 August 2010
The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
26 June – 11 September 2010
'Eddie Bass, participant in Water Works', Photograph, March 2010. Photo: Frances Gras.
‘Eventual’.
Aliki Chapple, Anne Hewitt, Adam York Gregory and Michael Turner
Gabrielle Reith & Philip Thompson, 'Poster for Show', Digital / Illustration, June 2010.
ok, wow time has flown that seems to happen when summer hits, it’s all go go go.. so what’s happened- well the opening evening of the schools exhibition went really well we had a presentation session looking at the progress […]
I’ve been meaning to write this since May, but other issues intervened. A friend asked me to contribute a piece of work to an exhibition raising awareness of “ME”. Interesting: I have endured 2 bouts of ME, the first lasting […]
A couple of days after the exhibition opening we took the year 10 group we worked with, kids from the other year 10 group and some year 11 pupils on a school trip to Liverpool. It was a great day […]
i found this bit of rusty metal on the floor that looks like a butterfly..
Over half term i spent time preparing a structure i have built to be used as a temporary community gallery and workshop space. The structure is to tour outdoor events around north wales over the summer the first being Botanical […]
i have been experimenting lately with making drypoints using drypoint plastic and placing it over an image and sketching the image. i’ve had some nice results and they’re really fun to do as they’re really quick and make nice potential […]
Click below to view ‘New Land’.
The sheets of paper hang in serene and contemplative isolation…corresponding to the way I approach my practice…They act as markers of time and space, within a simple, austere architecture defined by light, space and air. Further experimentation of projections in […]
I think it’s time to wrap this blog up. I seem to have drifted off the original subject of “…I’m now getting some creative ideas and direction …” And I am now looking back on a time of inspiration that […]
Bronze bread rolls and other artist dilemmas…. I met Beate this afternoon for coffee, cake and debate in the communal garden of her flat. These big apartment blocks come right out to the pavement, and you have no idea that […]
This is a picture of my degree show piece…dusty old projector and an 8mm film of Ed imitating Merce Cunninham…Making tentative steps into the real world…
i can’t believe it is only three weeks till the end of term, we are spending four days with small groups of pupils in the last week making sculptures for what is going to be a sculpture park in the […]
so i’ve been experimenting with etching very thin metal, an old aluminium Litho plate that i tried to etch using ink from a gum arabic transfer as the resist and etched in copper sulphate- not the most successful it definately […]
