I had a wonderful day of gallery-hopping in London with a painter friend on Saturday. We went to a lot of shows; the ones that resonated most with me were Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine, Angela de la Cruz at […]
The Garden of Dreams The New Boy. As I have explained the Transition Group can not join in the mainstream classroom lessons and we have a new boy from Eastern Europe with us, he has no English whatsoever. My memory […]
Finnisage at the Palace Hotel I had 8 hours to make something at the FabLab, which offered the facilities to create a piece of work that involved using digital technology. I used a capital letter ‘I’ from the font ‘giddyup’, […]
The nine days from May 26th to June 3rd see the 70th anniversary of a legendary wartime event, the evacuation of more than 300,000 British and French troops who had retreated to the beaches at Dunkirk and were under heavy […]
One thing I’m finding difficult is the very different agendas that the teachers have to myself. I tend to see projects like this as all accomplishing (I aim for them to be cross curriculum and involve life both in and […]
Sporting League Game 19 Novia were dominant in their 3-1 win which was previously predicted by the bookies to be a score draw against Bombaya. Zindustrious have confirmed that they’re going to quit The Sporting League at the end of […]
In light of a project that will take place over the August bank holiday weekend I Spent the other day trying to convince members of the Lincoln authorities that playing table tennis poses no risk to the public, can you […]
Studio time will end tomorrow. I have one more opportunity to paint one more layer. Lemon yellow i sense. Wednesday 10 am, is my level 5 assessment, and the end of the third year. The luxury of studying part time […]
To act as a focus for collecting writing from the children, I put up sheets of paper on the fences around the garden and a couple of the ‘rides’ at the playground. By the end of the day these were […]
For the last year I’ve been engaged with the largest single work I’ve ever made – a free-standing hand-made paper sculpture, 1 metre high and 17 metres long, constructed in the form of a huge concertina book, called Thames to […]
Dee Thomas, 'snapshot', silk, 2010. Photo: dee thomas.
Liz Mathews, 'Thames to Dunkirk', Paper sculpture, 2009. Photo: Liz Mathews.
Simon Fell, 'Head', Earthenware, 2010. Photo: S.Fell.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
1 May – 4 July 2010