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February 23, 2010 -
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February 26, 2010 -
Location:
West Midlands
Its been another busy week and after a few days where i felt like i was banging my head against a brick wall I finally felt like i could see what I wanted. That doesnt really make working out how […]
I really am the world’s worst time manager; I had been hoping to do a weblog of the poetry collaboration but time keeps slipping away. I have however managed to find out how to upload an MP3 track for it, […]
Happy New Year As it has been Chinese New Year I have been away for the past five days visiting Yan Yans family and friends whom have been very hospitable. It has been strange though arriving and working for a […]
The gallery space is essentially a long corridor and viewers will enter from either end giving two starting points to the exhibition. We met yesterday and quickly looked through all the work seeking possible formats or order for the presentation. […]
I’ve just signed the agreement for the exhibition, so there’s no turning back now. It’s a brilliant opportunity to have a solo show, but it’s very nerve racking, I’m rubbish at talking to people and I’m worried that people won’t […]
It’s 3½ years since I last went to London – It seems absurd, living in Oxford, but there we are, that’s how things have panned out. This week had 2 trips planned, one to see an avant-garde poetry performance, the […]
Ancestor Rituals We visit the Jewish cemetery in Malmesbury, and wander among the headstones, finding our great-grandparents Woolf and Gittel’s graves covered in dust and fallen bark from the bluegums which tower overhead. We collect bark, twigs, earth and weeds […]
Artists Statements Bruce Davies Bruce’s work looks at the sociological aspects of the gallery space, how people react to and engage with the work and the environment in which it is displayed. His work has ranged from fairly large scale […]
words like rocks pound into the ground. the sharp prick of imagined slights beneath the thunder. Yet silence leaves me empty.
Cupid’s clues and the salt army At Malmesbury Museum we interview Trevor Ringqvist whilst the museum’s curator translates between English and Afrikaans. Trevor remembers the Beinart shop but he doesn’t recall the salt pans in detail. He tells us about […]
Well done everyone
my favourite quote at the moment goes like this. making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple-awesomely simple-that’s creativity. said by charles mingus. my intention with this future focus commission is to offer a space to consider possible […]
So it’s the degree show soon, working on that now. Trying to think about the degree show/ Q-Art’s final show and graduating this June. Trying to look at MA options – have seen a couple, may do an Mres. Something […]
South Hill Park, Bracknell
31 October 2009