Boards I continue to struggle to paint four boards with black paint. The perfect surface still eludes me however. As of yesterday I had applied and sanded four layers of blackboard paint but still there remained imperfections on each board. […]
Interview at the Walsall Gallery went pretty well. Fantastic building. Beautiful floor. Jon and I had a tough pitch to make though. Building a residency programme that has it’s origin on a responsive footing leaves the field of play completely […]
The Future Jobs Fund is looking to be possible addition to the Chapel Arts studio programme. I had a good chat with those people today, and they think the ideas are (a) good and (b) stand a high chance of […]
Enham in Southampton left me knackered. Re-united again with my sometimes-partner in things arty, Jon Adams, we were speakers at a pilot session for the Dada Exchange programme we are involved with. Usually it serves to provide a mentoring service […]
The Anish Kapoor exhibition was fantastic, although it was smaller than I had expected. ‘Tall Tree and the Eye’ was so beautiful I could have spent all day just circling it, looking at its different reflections if it hadn’t been […]
Here’s an outline of Genuine Smiles, which I showed at the Stanley Picker on Saturday: “A sheet of paper is attached to one wall of the gallery, and attached just below it is a long piece of string with a […]
The University of Newcastle Gallery, Newcastle
16 – 26 July 2009
1/2 What a way to end the 2009 programme than with a crescendo from My Dads Strip Club. Although not everyone’s cup of tea the events over the 26-28th November have provided an exceptionally immersive experience for some. We began […]
2/2 The day ended with a Whirl in Tescos. 15 participants descended on Tescos to push an empty shopping trolley around the store for an hour. Using a highly sophisticated covert surveillance technique (a camera in a bag with a […]
Into last 2 days of Bottoms for Topshop – Leicester this afternoon. Meanwhile there’s coverage on radio and here at Culture24: http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/live+%2526+public+art/art73598 Onwards!
CRITICAL WRITING: My most recent review of ‘Dance With Camera’, an exhibition at the Philadelphia ICA concerned with the past forty years of dance and film/video collaborations is up on my portfolio and can also be read on the beautiful, […]
Just made a series of ink drawings responding to place for my college crit. We have a project space to show work in progress or present finished work as an exhibition. I have chosen to show work in process. All […]
Had a really good day yesterday. My critical studies seminar tutor invited the group for a studio visit to talk about the work we are planning for the interim show. Net result is I have to do even bigger work […]
Expo Leeds 25-28.09.09 Friday The first thing I visited on the Friday afternoon was the schools project led by Mira Calix at the Leeds City Museum, which consisted of upturned speaker cones being used to move piles of small objects, […]
Inspired by the highly successful Perthshire Open Studios – their second- I have launched a project to do something similar for Forth Valley.So far I am getting a good response and we have got an Open meeting fixed for December […]
After much consideration and more than a little prevarication I have pruned back my sideburns using an electric hair trimmer. They appear much more controlled now and not at all what I want but time will help. I have prepared […]
We set sail in 2 weeks… Starting to pack and prepare for the voyage, it feels like there is so much to do. We are attempting to fold away our lives here, and chose the items to take with us […]
I’m just finishing my 1st semester at SAIC and it has been both calm and hectic. When I arrived I felt extremely fortunate to be within the school and to have the opportunity for another period of time to dedicate […]
