Last week I was up at the Museum, facilitating a mass Gifting session with groups from Backwell school in the rear hall of the Museum. It felt good to be out in the open rather than in a closed room, […]
Very busy week, exciting in work as The Forestry Commission have just agreed to re-instate Raumlabor’s Jantar Mantar for one day only in Southport, so I’m busy helping organise that. Photo here if you want to see it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpoolbiennial/393… I […]
right now I should be cutting. cutting lino. but this online world is distracting me. right-now i-shall-go- – – – – – – – (takes some discipline this art work)
Soz been too buzy making to report on the making of La Guerre des Verre. But last night Chesspoint came to pick them piece up (grout still drying in places). They liked what they saw and took it off to […]
Internationally acclaimed Artist Nikos Alexiou arrives in London to sett up his floor installation Grid as part of the show Celestial Contrakt’. Setting up his installation was an extremely dynamic process. The black floor background Nikos and I decided to […]
I needed a statement for the opening and as I wrote it, I realised it needed a new title, one more deliberate than Unravelling. Subverting the Straight Line. As I did the work, I gradually realised why I found the […]
Louise Nason Artist in residence. Well it has been a couple of weeks since I last posted. I have been able to concentrate on my own work and have now finished weaving my major piece. I have sill to finish […]
my neighbour really shouted at me yesterday over a fence dispute and I said sorry a lot even though it wasn’t my fault. Not good for self esteem, but good for not getting thumped. now I am going to sneak […]
My my, it has been a while (again) Now… what’s been going on in Pretty Vacant land since my last update… Well, we’ve had another show, this time in the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton as part of Wolverhampton’s “Art at […]
What a great night. Is this really work? The opening was at Weyhill studios, and what a place. Once was a time when it was a sheep stables. Now, the little sheep lounges and boudoirs have been converted into a […]
I have about 12 pages of notebook scribbles that I will eventually be adding to this blog, in the form of considered comments on various events (I promise). These include the Expo Leeds (at the end of September!) and the […]
Feet back on the ground again. Went up to Sheffield docfest with DAD co-director to see what we could learn about documentary film making. Sheffield seemed to be a very exciting and confident city and everyone was genuinely friendly. As […]
My first post is going to come in several chunks as I have written more than the 500 word allocation…. Chunk 1: So, I’ve decided to start a blog in the hope that it may clear up some of the […]
Chunk 2: Since the Liverpool show, I have been struggling to make any more art work. I have made a couple of pieces in the first year after graduating but nothing of real substance or significance. I had one of […]
Chunk 3: Reading it back, it’s almost like a list of excuses as to why I haven’t done what I know I should have been doing, but I just got swept along with life really and now here I am…. […]
Chunk 4: One thing I have done a bit of over the past year and a half is community projects. The WEA in Southampton asked me to run some workshops with 2 of the community groups. 10 weeks, 2 hours […]
I’m looking forward to this year being finished because I don’t know where my work will be when it is and that’s a very interesting position. I almost don’t want to achieve terminally ‘resolved’ work. I’m not keen on the […]
I’ve already started to plum the opportunities that Margaret Street has to offer. It has 3 beautiful wooden stairwells and I spent last week trying out ideas and making sketches in tape in the only one that has a new […]
Yesterday I met Anne at Harlow Sports Centre, she was there to do a work out supported by John, an ex-bodybuilding gym instructor (with awesome arms and terrific personality!). Anne’s focus is on building arm and shoulder strength which is […]
Sometimes it feels like we are always walking in treacle. We are in dispute with the landlords over the service charge. We believe it isn’t being administered in accordance with the lease we signed over two years ago. I wouldn’t […]
Scyliorhinus Canicula (small spotted catshark) a bottom feeder that likes shallow waters. More commonly named the Lesser Spotted Dogfish, more colloquially known round here as those FCUKNIG FISH that get washed up on the beach. I did a pre dog […]
Fine Art BA Hons, Year 6
My art work, reading, thinking and writing has wilted and is in desperate need of nurturing. This blog is hopefully going to be stage one in it’s blossoming…….
