Friday’s PV was very successful, with a fantastic turnout. A human frailty, it is easy to confuse all the gushing praise with critical evaluation. Bearing that in mind, a couple of people whose professional opinion I particularly value and respect […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/22/working-women-husbands-housework ‘Useless stay-at-home men’ a female myth Working women who claim partners don’t pull their weight do so to feel more feminine and in charge in the home. ‘….Meisenbach said the trend of the female high achiever and the male […]
We are beginning to get organised for our next exhibition: Rhyl Library Arts Centre. January 9th. to February 13th. 2010. We are planning to show work which will demonstrate the narrative inherent in a collaborative process, including sketchbooks, work in […]
Just been continuing playing with paint this week. I did lots of tearing paint off of the plastic surfaces to leave ragged edges, and also folding up sheets of plastic and paint and collaging it. Making layers with paint and […]
Thwarted by a broken down car, a crashing film file and a lost photo image I have a few minutes to spare. I’m not going to go into depth about the days shortcomings, I’m going to talk about a moment, […]
The site visit to the Shelley Theatre. The Shelley Theatre Boscombe has been neglected for many years, currently semi -derelict and awaiting funding for refurbishment. The group, wearing hard hats and high visibility jackets, appear like actors making their entrances […]
Hoffman Ma of Shanghai travelled to New York to buy Michael Jackson’s sequined glove for a quarter of a million pounds.
i’ve been spending time feeling a little more like i know what i’m doing. the open dialogue, after a i r time was such good time well spent last wednesday. if you’ve not got to an a i r time […]
Found various things on the ground recently while walking in the lanes, they seem to have been pressed into the road, so I photographed them in situ. Leaf and a rusty key.
I took a rainy afternoon trip to Edinburgh to see the “Attitudes To Drawing” show at the Fruitmarket Gallery in search of inspiration. While I was there I didn’t think anything had clicked (although it was a great show) but […]
Celestial Contrakt Opening 6pm – 11pm Thursday 12 November Featuring Audio Live Mix by Exitjesus Live Music by Douce Angoisse and living sculptural performance of Croma Collapse by Berne Roche Farrelly
Looks like I’ll be asking for thermals for christmas. HMS has been selected to particpate in Supermarket 2010 at Kulturhuset, Stockolm from 19th – 21st Feb. This is an artist-run international event which will give us the opportunity to meet […]
I’ve now had over a week to reflect on two recent exhibitions, and Wednesday’s Air Open Dialogues event in Nottingham gave me an opportunity to discuss the thought processes that I have gone through more recently with the group of […]
I am having a little trouble with my sideburns. The left one has quite a different character to the right. It seems softer and less wiry the right is more aggressive lupine even. I am also concerned with the amount […]
The studios are OPEN! A splendid sunny day. All the right people were here. Had a lot of short conversations over the two-hour frantic meet, greet and eat. Pleased to say that the first, tentative, exploratory shoots of project-plan-litmus-testing turn […]
My phone has just broken. Lost all of my numbers and contacts. Mustn’t think bad thoughts of the phone. It wasn’t doing it to spite me, in the middle of one of the busiest weeks I’ve had, but I still […]
Is it just me or is anyone else a bit dubious about Saatchi’s new art show? After the first round, Matthew Collings apparently said “”It’s worth the public watching this. They should be thinking about where that utter s*** comes […]
STARTING POINTS initial ideas as starting points are Emotions that compelled me: stunned hummingbird – I once held a stunned hummingbird whilst travelling; whirling dermish – the energy from that controlled religeous whirling is very interesting; Birds – terror, hitchcock. […]
Hi All, I think the three attached works by Alison and I are still very much works in progress. As we are both Welsh artists it would be good to have some Irish input. I can put them up on […]
There doesn’t appear to be an obvious way to contact people who respond to a blog except to write another blog? Thinking some more about titling work The finished work requires a viewer. In fact the image demands to be […]
Yesterday My darling Husband and I went to Pandy Mill Gallery to put my installation. We got very wet but had a laugh which was good. It did not take us long to do we getting good at it now. […]
Migrant workers Have decided to include some photographic documentary work of migrants returning from Saudi in my forthcoming exhibition. It was one of those unexpected events I stumbled across while in Egypt last year. I just had my cheap cameras […]
This week, quite out of the blue I’ve found a new place to work from January. It will be such a different set up from the one I’ve been in for four and a half years now. The most drastic […]