A few days ago I was delighted to find this (below) in my inbox. Actually what I found was a jumble of images and words which I have painstakingly restored to what I hope was it’s original state. INVITATION You […]
Monday, 14 June 2010 In my bath Lying in my bath, my companion washing my hair. I thought I would like to write something about having a thought at that moment, a sort of eureka. I thought it could form […]
Back in Ipswich and the everyday toil of work. Chance to go through my emails and specifically to deal with a request from the redoubtable Mr Bracey who had sent me the following message clearly typed in haste. “hi Alex,hope […]
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 Undead! “Baudelaire did not come to Brussels until 1864, when he was already ruined, financially and physically. He was miserably poor. His work had failed to gain proper recognition… His publisher had gone bankrupt. He was […]
Children dived in and started creating their maps, developing their ideas.A great amount of energy and buzz about the class as they all focused on what they were doing. Some fascinating discussions went on (I wished I’d audio recorded them) […]
Last week I went to see the University of Lincoln Animation Degree Show, as I have been working with Animation during my AA2A scheme residency. I was very impressed with some of the work, most notably a very well made […]
It has been 5 years since my degree show in Exeter. I remember thinking at the time that I’d definately still be making work in the years to come. Saying it is one thing, and I was pretty clueless back […]
Week 8 of 12. The second block is about to finish, and the essays will be handed in on Friday. Having marked them, I will also have the portfolios to assess, under the general heading “use of learning resources”. The […]
Last trip back I have arrived back in Shetland for final onslaught. The mosaics are finished, the concrete has been finished completely during my three-week absence and the tillers are ready to go, so we are all set! I am […]
Wednesday 9th June The tiling begins Without even time to unpack a single bag, I was at the school at 8am to meet the tillers, who were already there. It has been hard to find the tillers, but in the […]
Thursday 10th June The weather was fine again. We are so lucky to have good weather to complete this job. The number of times I have tried to install work in bad weather and some of the situations I have […]
Grouting 1 I arrived at 8am on the Friday to find the tilers scratching their chins and looking at the sky and muttering. It wasn’t raining. Eventually I managed to coax out of them that it had been raining in […]
Unst Frances, my coordinator, invited me to Unst, where her partner lives. Unst is the most northerly island in Britain, save Muckle Flugga, a rock just off the north tip of Unst, which is home to Britain’s most northerly lighthouse. […]
Yell Yell is the island in between Unst and the mainland and one of the teachers in the school, Rachel, lives on Yell, so I went to visit her on my way through. It was a lovely afternoon and we […]
Grouting 2 Monday 14th June Yes! It is sunny today. Perfect weather for grouting. I arrive at 8 and the tilers have already uncovered the tarpaulins and tents we put up to protect the structures on Friday. They work throughout […]
Trondra I went to visit friends of a buddie in Brighton; Trisha and Chris Brown, who have been here for 16 years. They live in a spectacular location on an island within view of Scalloway, Shetland’s second largest town. When […]
Finishing off Tuesday 15th June. The day before the grand opening. I arrive to find the tilers already at work. They work over each sculpture, chipping away any unruly bits of cement with a chisel and scouring pads until each […]
Completed sculptures!
Children’s opening In the afternoon of the 16th , we held a celebration for the children in the school. They had been so patient since the sculptures were finished the day before, because we told them they could not play […]
Grand opening The evening of the 16th arrived and the guests started arriving well before the start time of 7.30pm. And they just kept on coming. We were thrilled to have a very full house. People really did make an […]
The experience of positioning, hanging and viewing the work in the gallery space has been invaluable. It was for me as if I hadn’t really seen the paintings before clearly. The colour relationship altered with each move. The changing light, […]
Dear Sandra and Painting, I believe your request for therapy is the first step to acceptance and healing. It seems clear that Sandra, you have an issue with Painting being so materialistic and ambitious; he wants to make money, doesn’t […]
Leeds Young Authors are a group of young people who meet weekly to write and perform poetry. I am interested in the group because they contribute to the creative map of Chapeltown. Also, I have seen some of the older […]
soooo, degree show down in the morning. although my video is going out into the world, i don’t see a time when it is going to look so well presented in the near future. it works so beautifully in the […]
Post #200! Yikes. Back from Yorkshire for a day and just catching up on cataloguing/admin/invoicing and general life. Someone drove into the back of my car on Saturday night so I have a very sore neck and have been pretty […]