Blea Water Tarn 13.4.10 Long drive round Shap and through to the head of Hawes Water, thoughts of the watery lost village of Mardale beneath its surface. Set off into an increasingly wild setting as we ascended to the tarn, […]
Not been on here for a while as had a fall and my right hand has been injured, have had to wear a splint, which is quite restricting to me. It has happened at the worst time for me as […]
Salting the Earth So our time in Cape Town draws to an end, and we start to pack up our belongings, take down our studio, say our goodbyes. It doesn’t feel like we are leaving never to return, although we […]
“This month ArtEvict has moved around the corner from Tate Modern. Be there and experience what is really happening on the contemporary front. Explore the 5 floors of an abandoned Victorian Storage Factory and stumble across various durational, live interventions […]
This is my second intensive studio week this module…working in the course studio, focussing on my work. The next four weeks will be spent working independently in my personal studio space monitored by a tutor. I have sent my exhibition […]
Friday, 9 April 2010Mortality My reaquaintance with television has revealed a sort of vampire saturation point. So far this week I have seen Reruns of “Buffy”, “Vampire Diaries”, “True Blood”, “Blade the series”, a Sherlock Holmes called “The Last Vampyre” […]
uesday, 13 April 2010 Blood and Kites I have received interesting information from sources in New York of a blood cocktail. Thankfully it was for animal blood though I am not sure that this detail makes it any more palatable. […]
Wednesday, 14 April 2010Lost Souls My favourites of the following lost souls is the person in a library in the Bronx looking for a connection between Zizek and vampires and the obscure searcher from Ohio who was looking for “tight […]
Just had confirmation that Beth Shapeero from Backlit in Nottingham will be joining the panel at HMS to discuss current abstract painting. Yeh! This will be the second in a series of debates. She will join Marek Tobolewski (who has […]
Poster for Open Day done, don’t know how good it’ll look on here as a jpeg but it’s ok – does exactly what it says on the box…so’s to speak. Very hard to not go too arty, have to keep […]
“Ein Spiel mit meinen Beinen… / Spring”
from the project: ‘In or Out with Parakeets’ 2009-2010
I’m coming round to the idea that I won’t be in Sweden this summer. I’m making it okay by telling myself that I’ll be here lots of other summers. Today I uploaded my application for a (the!) practice-based PhD that […]
Day 1 Moving in… it was fun! i was nervous, meeting new people being in a strange environment etc but it was fine, the space i think is going to be great, it feels bigger than i thought it would […]
There is always something happening at this school even though it is shut for the holiday. There is a Sure Start building, football training, athletics, the school club itself open for a few days. Even on Sunday someone can to […]
Jem has some seriously big cases on at the moment with two big reports due in by the end of the week. Apart from the usual offices and factories associated with commercial surveying he has valued barges, scrapyards, sub stations […]
The commission at St Bede’s College in Bristol started with a four-day workshop with the students and discussion with the staff at the College. At the same time in the four days I looked around Laurence Weston, visited the Blaise […]
Im feeling a bit under the weather, which is lucky for the February Challenge as I always promote the fun jobs to the top of the list when Im feeling shitty. So last night I undertook the role of composer […]
I started worrying about death last night. It’s something that makes my heart stop when I think about it. I get this feeling I don’t get at any other time. It’s just one of those things that is inevitable. I’m […]
We had a work day last Sunday at the Park, it was a beautiful day so lots of volunteers turned up and it’s starting to look good now. I did some more work on the Twigwam though its far from […]
I’ve had a kind & sympathetic email from the Wellcome Trust explaining how to distinguish “clinical” from “other” images – very reassuring. So that’s alright, then. However, I’m not doing so well with a separate copyright enquiry to A Publisher, […]
Meetings and start dates The project started on Monday with a meeting in London. Discussing the conceptual basis of the project, ideas about exhibition venues and research papers with Helen Sloan from SCAN was a great way to kick things […]
The digital making blog was started when I became resident artist at Hethel Engineering Centre in April 2010 with almost weekly posts about conversations, explorations and reflections. It also covers some of the exhibitions / events / conversations that followed […]
a record of another trip through Highlands, Lowlands, the Taklamakan and jungles, maybe even a transformation from unsure to certain. I think of myself as a wanderer and I am slowly understanding that this is not to be uncertain about […]
