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It all started innocently enough with a goldfish. A friend was added to prevent loneliness and it soon became clear that the small plastic bowl was not going to accommodate it’s residents. Enter the 85 litre, filtered, illuminated and heated […]

I’m trying not to be braindead this half term but it’s very hard…New 8 mm film has arrived and Iv’e dusted off that old camera from the garage…Looking forward to making some films again…maybe with cats and boats, like this […]

In 1968 the artist and writer jack Burnham prophesised that “A systems aesthetic will become the dominant approach to a maze of socio-technical conditions rooted only in the present.”

dominoes are nice. set them up and push one, spaced well each will fall and push the next one. with forsight, the patterns set up can be amusing, the inital fall being superceded by an excitement of the next pattern […]

I feel as though I’ve really been through the wringer this week.One of my flatmates in London told me that he plans to move out at the end of May. Basically it means that I have to go back to […]

I’ve been offered a solo show for February 2012. I’m pleased by the timing because it gives a good length of time to gradually amass work for it. I work on some of my paintings, on and off, for years. […]

Sold two pieces and bought a Mik Godley painting at the Backbid auction last night. The novice auctioneer gave a great performance which was both honest and entertaining. Many lots were sold too cheap really -probably because the room was […]

Today, my son is 13, four days ago my Mum was 80, and I’m smack in the middle of the organisation of both birthday parties. This is where my parenting enters uncharted waters. For the first 13 years life was […]

I found out that I didn’t get the space I wanted for the degree show…but I got a better one. We had the opportunity to write a proposal to show in Gallery North (http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/) but I didn’t fill one out […]

A couple of years ago I ran a small local arts organisation, the Revolutionary Arts Group, struggling with no resources to stage artist-led festivals and open studio events, and using non-traditional venues for exhibitions- an old bakers, a functioning church, […]

The first time I tasted roasted beetroot was with fresh potatoes from my horticulturist friend’s allotment in central Leeds where I used to live and walk every day: I remember the taste – I also remember her generosity too. There […]