Talk about crash and burn. Why is it that even though I know this always happens after a big install, I am never prepared for it. All I can say is a big grey cloud is stubbornly loitering. I find […]
Dear God if that school doesn’t open it’s gates tomorrow I may have to break them down. Much as I dearly love my children, I don’t think I can cope with another days bickering- this doesn’t bode well for the […]
more dancing from the boys
This weekend was pretty relaxing… I deliberately didn’t do any school work or freelance work, but instead did some introductory research into the existing gallery scene in Philadelphia and the types of businesses in existence in the specific area of […]
An international artist residency at Greatmore Studios in Capetown between September and the end of November 2010.It’s my first residency but not my first visit to Capetown: I lived there as a teenager during the apartheid years before returning to […]
I want to use this blog in some way to make it all better, slightly. I am a realist.
Open Studios. Day One. Balloons out. Signs up. Walls painted. Mass lobelia established. It’s been an hour; Where is everybody? Day one update. Thank you to everybody who tore themselves away from their own gardens on such a fine day […]
Friday was the second day of painting the text, another fiercely hot day. Jon and Stuart from the gallery continue to paint the coloured sections of the hoarding. I am being assisted by Lee Gentry, a recent graduate from Camberwell […]
Dialogue box GREEN / REGEN Kate Lynch, 2010 Found lithographs, vinyl on polycarbonate sheets ‘GREEN’ is an anagram of ‘REGEN’. The circular form of the text allows both of these words to be read and reflects the regenerative cycle of […]
Having potentially dug a hole for myself re thinking and doing, I have been trying to explore what it means for me. Paintings and drawing are somehow approached elliptically. Their making is achieved through a discrete approach, an almost pretending […]
I sometimes worry that my blog is a bit negative with all the legal rubbish that’s kicked off. So it was a relief to read Becky Hunter’s comments … and that my experiences haven’t put her off setting up studios […]
I have just done my first open studio for BVA in Oswestry.. As I do not live in Oswestry I showed my work with glass artist Rachael.. As I have not done this before I was not sure want to […]
Passing through my thoughts lately has been the misguided statement that ‘children are very resilient’. I’m sure this refers to them simply carrying on with life because it’s all they know how to do. Everything is new to a child […]
I have been struggling to make work over the past week, and not for lack of ideas or materials or even time… The thing i have been struggling with has been trying to work in a studio which is actually […]
FAFF2010 submission deadline has gone and Fundada is now wading through the amazing quantity of post we have received from all over the world. Fundada has taken to the quiet corners of bars and cafes across the Pennines for the […]
Part 2 I just called Louise Bourgeois a “shaykha .” What is that? In the part of the world where I come from, it’s a word coming from the root “shaikukha” which means “old age.” It’s an Arabic word used […]
THE DEATH OF THE SHAYKHA a eulogy for Louise Bourgeois While I was drawing in my studio in the early hours of June 1 2010 with the radio on, the last item on the news stopped me in my tracks. […]
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
3 February – 21 March 2010
