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Well, a month has passed and I’m beginning to realise how much slower things move outside the comfort of the art school environment. I finally graduated at the beginning of November which was great, apart from having to come up […]

Giorgio Agamben ‘The Open: Man and Animal’ 2002 (from the chapter entitled Umwelt) ‘Uexkull shows that such a unitary world does not exist, just as a space and a time that are equal for all living things do not exist. […]

Game 16: Summary. Tranquilayers have now recorded their 9th consecutive win – the first time since their title winning season 1986-87. Novia won the battle against champions Olby.Novia are now 4 points clear at the summit and were dominant against […]

Our last meeting ended in us pondering whether light is the key to our project; I think it’s certainly a strong element of the direction my explorations are taking – Light and History. I am working from the premise that […]

Our artist-in-residence, Louise Nason is running the last workshops of her residency over the next few weeks, the first, on the 28 November is a natural dye workshop where she will be showing how to use a range of, not […]

Started reading The Master and his Emissary – the divided brain and the wester world by Iain McGilchrist. He argues that the two hemispheres of the brain have not merely different skills,but have very different perspectives on the world. He […]

I was pleased to hear Matthew Collings’ views on video-art earlier this week on ‘School of Saatchi’: “Video-Art at the moment gets you brownie points if you do it”. Everybody is doing it now. I remember four years ago I […]

Trip to London at the weekend hoping to meet up with someone from The Showroom to discuss their Communal Knowledge project which sounds great and not dissimilar to some of the work we do at the Biennial- arranged to meet […]

i’m feeling upbeat this afternoon. i’ve sent a response to a callout seen in a n. maybe i’m starting to find a rhythm better suited to me. As i near the end of the six months i am hopeful that […]

I have a list for everything. On every surface, in every pocket and bag. What happened to my usual satisfying process of merging and restructuring all the lists into a plan? I’m having a Frank Spencer moment. Only I don’t […]

ps. remembering to be positive despite the list-horrors – I’m getting a bit of publicity on the back of the Mother/Mother mailout and my new artist book ‘What a Complete Waste of a Day’…. interview and image featured in ACE […]

My assessment date has been confirmed as 15th December, a lot of work to do before then, especially as I feel that I’m starting again. I have a lot of problems with imagery. Even though I may know exactly which […]

I have received a very helpful letter from Hayley Lock May I suggest that you make a cardboard template with the desired ‘perfect sideburn’ shape cut out of the centre. This could then be taped to the side of your […]

Monika Bobinska came to my sham of a studio yesterday. I had spent the previous hour unpacking the items I had previously packed and making a few stunt works in progress. I had made sure I had a packet of […]

Inspired by Anne I have joined a gym! For the first couple of weeks I stuck to the running machine, but have now ventured into a few classes. At the first pilates I came close to crying and running out […]

ABSURD I’ve been thinking about the dadaists all week, since our last lecture. My understanding of them is that they produced absurd art as a reaction to the absurdity of the war. I’ve been wondering why there is no movement […]

Most of my recent images have been put together digitaly using images made in “natural” media. It’s a great way to work collaboratively as none of the original work is destroyed. Although the digital prints do live they lack the […]