At work, avoiding work, I am staring out of an upper storey window at the small decorative spire of St Henrietta’s which lies opposite the college. The sky is cinereal, there is a light drizzle and the coffee is sour. […]
Home and Away I am waiting for a sofa. It is to be delivered by pantechnicon between two and six this afternoon. I have started early. My companion is in a state of excitement, a condition which has manifest in […]
Occasionally I get to a position where I am drained. Motivation is limited. Sometimes it is simply tiredness. Or the imagination dries up. That itchy feeling in the fingertips that signifies a need to work subsides. This week I made […]
The Garden of Dreams This project is the most difficult for many years, and I am lucky to have a Peter working with me on it, mutual support is essential. The deputy head today mentioned that he had half expected […]
Among other things, I am gaining an intimate knowledge of coffee shops and pubs along my route to the Medical School. Opposite a smart little tea room in Audlem (great scones & pastry) stands a monument to a local doctor. […]
Alan & Estella Scholes, husband & wife, both artists, both made collages. In Alan’s work the small figures appeared ambiguously in both pieces. Was the crow about to feed them or eat them? Were they holding up the basket or […]
It’s been a tough week. following on from a very wet weekend by the sea, I had a migraine for a couple of days or so, reducing my week down, and that only served to make me feel drained for […]
It’s a minefield dealing with solicitor’s letters – some are open and others are privileged. To mention the latter in open correspondence is also a no no. It’s like living in a parallel universe.
Made myself get on with the acrylic monochrome work, for the ‘Alice Adrift’ project. Not feeling at all energetic to start with, but booted myself into action with REM’s ‘Orange Crush’ – it’s such an upbeat song, a quick blast […]
Currently negotiating with a school around school looks around proj. very interesting how they can take creative ideas and they slowly become instutionalised into the school bureaucracy. Teachers have got targets to hit; curriculum to teach to and exams to […]
“I think it is a record of the workings of thought that we see embedded in the drawn, in the sense that it is both the actions of which Valery speaks as ‘willed attention’ ” (Avis Newman) Avis Newman’s ideas […]
opening night. the result of my conversation is on show, what of the conversations it has with it’s viewer’s ? i have to be patient. what of the videoed interview? i’ll wait and see if they approach me. it’s been […]
session two, abandoned projects project. ten people present. at the end…lots of smiles and feedback of enjoyment and inspiration. i think you’re onto something chris.xx
SUNDAY –Modern Times – Responding to Chaos exhibition at the De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea. A show curated by Lutz Becker, including works on paper by Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin,Malevich, Lissitzky, Flavin, Judd, and Pollock , […]
Posted yesterday and then forgot to publish it – div! Anyway, today I had a very constructive tutorial with my lecturer via Skype. I’ll post that in my other blog methinks. I’m opening the park up on Sunday 12-2 until […]
Had a very constructive tutorial with my lecturer today via Skype. School was closed yesterday due to it being a polling station for the farce of an election(sorry but….) Anyway, couldn’t get into Uni as I had little one at […]
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It is the week before my final assessment of my 2nd year and i have been reviewing what i have actually done this year as well as trying to set up my work for the assessment. My biggest problem has […]
I’m free to do my own work for the next two weeks, but I somehow feel haunted. My work doesn’t feel right and I’m annoyed at people taking credit for things in the degree show that they haven’t done. I […]
Reviewing
I decided to keep a diary of my working on this The School Looks Around – project being run by daisi. I have been appointed lead artist at South Dartmoor Community College in Ashburton. The School Looks Around is a […]
BA(hons) Fine Art: The course is open to allow students to work in whatever way they see fit and is situated in a grade 1 listed building right in the centre of Birmingham. There are dedicated workshops and flexible studio […]
