MUCKLE ROE In eleven days I have managed to have two half days off, and I went for a fabulous walk to the Hams at Muckle Roe. The hams is a stretch of coastline in the western part of Northern […]
My students would often describe themselves as ‘passionate’ about making art. For some of them this had a ring of truth, and of course there are many ways of defining the term. I’m reflecting on today’s long, tiring and not […]
Today someone told me: “There are no problems, only solutions,” That is what I’m going to use for these next two weeks. I’ve found many problems today, but I refuse to left them drag me down.
We have a case management conference meeting with a circuit judge for an hour in July. Apparently this is unusual as 1/4 an hour with a lower ranking judge is the norm. People keep asking me if I don’t feel […]
PROGRESS Everything is moving on and making progress. Two more paintings are ready for collection from the framer. I call them paintings in the loosest sense of the word. They are actually Letraset “drawings” on painted board. As with the […]
After the challenges of learning the beginnings of CAD, at the end of last week I was back in my comfort zone taking photographs. This time of the inside of the building focusing on a number of spaces which are […]
Today was the last working day of the academic year, I’m fully set up for assessement which will be taking place over the next few days and then its time to really get involved with reading for my dissertation, it […]
116 days. I looked up this figure today and found it at once exciting, vaguely terrifying, and a comfortingly large number. However I’m very much aware time tends to fly where deadlines are involved The Project. Developed as a result […]
Partner still very unwell, coming up to day 14. She’s been sleeping 20 hours a day, and though she reckons she’s not getting any better, I’m sure I can detect a slight shift in mood. Still no feedback from GP, […]
The studios have been cleared out and the building of spaces and the decorating has begun. Leaving little time to work on the actual art thats going to be shown. I’ve been working for a number of weeks with the […]
I’m having some trouble finalising my piece. There are five pieces to the work and I’m missing one piece. No matter how many tries I have nothing seems right. Hopefully I can find a solution if I put my mind […]
This is a development of my piece ‘Oliver Cromwell Xmas tree’ I have been trying to find ways to display the piece so that it was not just placed on a plinth and had a platform that would become part […]
It suddenly feels like everyone is waking up.. there are lots of exciting things afoot in Liverpool and the weather is nice enough and it is light enough to want to leave the house. Last night there was the pre-launch […]
Knowledge – Acquisition – Escapism I will work backwards – escape to acquire knowledge Escapism – this is perhaps a visual thing and sometimes I find reading to be so terribly visual that I find it distracting and have to […]
Alice In Disneyland was exhibited for four days at Lincoln Central Library, for a much bigger exhibition, and I noticed that Lincoln Castle are having a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party next weekend, so I asked if we could exhibit our […]
Got some photos done of recently finished work. This painting was begun years ago, and has been almost ‘to hell and back’. There are so many versions buried in the paint! If you look at the image sideways, you might […]
Yale, Wrexham
23 April – 23 May 2010
I have just picked up the brochures for the Surrey Arts Open Studios I am taking part in at the beginning of June. I am slightly worried that the image used to best represent my work is currently in New […]
On a walk along west coast of Scotland I was searching for observations by fellow walkers. This is an on-going project collecting text by handing out self addressed postcards. The responses are abstracted and play with text as image.
It is the Athens Video Art Festival this weekend – seems like bad timing; I’ve been following the terrible events on the news and contacted them via Facebook, as have other artists, to find out if it has gone ahead, […]
“Photography between Labour and Capital” excerpt from the essay by Allan Sekula, in Photography/Politics Two, pub 1986 “Why stress these economic realities at the outset, as if to flaunt the ‘crude thinking’ often called for by Bertolt Brecht? Surely our […]
