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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.

Someone said they like the ‘train bits’ on this. Not realising there were so many tunnels on this route through Italy when I did get a fleeting view of the landscape, which looked stunning, I didn’t have time to get […]

The first block is over; the second begins. Two students this time, who have already decided what they want to do. The life drawing session was better attended, which was a relief. I am assured that other waifs and strays […]

I have decided to take a business studies course once my MA History of Art is over. Pretty excting stuff. Never imagined myself doing this! Accounting, marketing, finance, management, ethics, etc… Perfect for practical gallery stuff. If anyone has taken […]

Seven minutes in length…is it too long? is it not long enough? Should there be four shots? The decisions were made, but were they the right ones?

Erm…the wires look good. Haha.

Favourite Drive Thru’s: 1) Farnborough Gate – Rusthless efficiency, a handy proximity and Comet and Curry’s for a bit of window shopping on a Sunday morning. Marc, if your listening, lets do breakfast. 2) Chichester – Breakfast on the way […]

HOUSE tour weekend!- and until half an hour before the talk I felt fine. My thoughts in order, studio tidied and all those little tasks cleared up -and then my nerves kicked in. Ladies and Gentlemen…this was the first public […]

Numbers in the text relate to the numbered photos. The silence in St George’s resonates with its past music. This late 17th/early eighteenth century memorial in the church seemed evocative of the baroque music of that time.(5) I made a […]

35 minutes until deadline.

First of for those that do not know HE SAID Talent agency is a fictional but functional company based in Colchester, Essex. We have been working on piece as a group/collective with each informing the other in some way. Currently […]

The last few months have been exciting, stimulating and frustrating. I invested so much time and research into my crib piece that some version of it would have to be my degree show exhibit. Yet as deadlines crept ever closer […]

It’s not a bit like the Walton’s (it’s not like Eastender’s either), a performance (2010) brings together many of these concerns though an exploration of the tension between the Ideal Family that is still promoted by both state and media […]

Also forgot to mention to run alongside our development as artists on Escalator one have artists has decided to parrell this with his bodys development as visual symbol of our progress. Jamie Moakes will be working from Charles Bronsons solitary […]

I have sat at this page so many times, meaning to start another blog but scared to crank up the whole, time-devouring, thought inducing process once again. Don’t get me wrong, I benefited hugely from the last one and the […]