Vocation or Profession We had an interesting conversation on Tuesday about if being an artist is a vocation or a profession. I said for me it was a profession and it was suggested ‘was I only in it for the […]
Back from Berlin. What a great time. Walked and walked. We stayed north east of Alexanderplatz, visits included small contemporary galleries and large collections, Guggenheim and Bau Haus Archive. My work is directly influenced by place and the experience of […]
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29 May 2010
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 Alarums My phone has just jolted me awake. It says “talk”. At first I thought it was a message from my companion suggesting I rise from my post-work grave. But no! it was a timely reminder […]
The man next to me has preternaturally long feet, or at least shoes. I am seated in the genteel and unattended village station of Prestbury waiting for a slow carriage to Stoke on Trent. The Virgin Pendelino has just sped […]
Whilst my sister Rosie was visiting this week we talked about art jobs and opportunities in Newcastle and Glasgow. Although she has done internships at Sorcha Dallas and bits and pieces of voluntary work for Transmission and other places (plus, […]
This week I’ve been going through a heap of texts over and over again, trying to get them all ready for print. It’s like a balancing act, persuading them all to work on their own and correspond with one another […]
Essay is well out the way and a distant memory now. I am installing my piece in the gallery on the 7th of June and have found it quite hard having to wait until then to see it all up […]
I’ve been examining ways of filling the spaces or reservoirs in the grid of the form. I’ve been using slips and glazes to expore this, letting some of the glaze spill over the boundaries of the spaces. This is leading […]
On a whim (meaning: not working on any of the three studio projects I feel I ‘ought’ to be working on…), I thought today I’d try something new: drawing in a concertina-style sketchbook directly from film stills. This was inspired […]
To continue the tale of the making of Thames to Dunkirk, the 17m long freestanding paper sculpture on my online installation The Dunkirk Project: Once I had achieved my stack of pages, dried and fixed, my partner Frances and I […]
Two great things today: 1. My interview with London-based sculptor Nick Hornby has been published at Dazed today. 2. The Philadelphia “Promoters Bill” has been cancelled thanks to a huge online petition and lots of concerned Philadelphians phoning up the […]
Sarah Key (from HMS) and me submitted work for the RA summer show for the first time this year… and today we learned that both pieces were selected.
