Trains – I am right into taking photos out of train windows. It seems to me you can’t get the same views from anywhere else. All those fields of waving grass, cows and sheep, industrial warehouses, terraced housing, back gardens, […]
I am feeling more and more detached from my day job, feeling little but loathing for the place and all it stands for. In turn I have been commissioned to make 3 thematic new works for a fellow artist who […]
One year on. I was in Dover today so I went to have a look at this garden we made over a year ago now. I have been in a good mood all evening because how wrong was the maintenance […]
I have been invited to exhibit and give a talk to students at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada in February 2010.– coroocoo coroocoo coroocoo coroocoo – The title of my research is ‘Tell me something: our […]
Dan Thompson from The Revolutionary Arts Group reveals how artists are once again making use of empty spaces as a means to kick-start both the cultural and economic well being of town centres, and suggests seven steps to enable this area of practice to flourish.
Torre Abbey, Torquay
19 September – 5 November 2009
…sitting here in my pj’s all warm and snug…with the heating on…thinking of one of the chaps I employ in gardens out there in the cold actively protesting all night and all weekend against climate change… http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/blog/2009/10/17/swoo… www.artswain.com www.eartharchitecture.co.uk
Have started to prepare work for my exhibition next February and the first piece of work I want to complete is some digital prints on Japanese paper. Well, I went into Glasgow Print studio to discuss whether it would be […]
Only three weeks into the residency and already behind with my blog! During week 2, I spent my time in the Local Studies Unit looking at archive documents, including the fascinating ‘Girls Clothes Book’ from the girls rescue home. It […]
CELESTIAL CONTRAKT is an exhibition curated by Christina Mitrentse and Jonas Ranson which opens at Schwartz Gallery on Thursday 12 November and runs until 6 December 2009. The gallery is open Friday-Sunday 12-6pm. The Private View takes place 6-10pm […]
On friday Julia Carver, the curator of the project came for a studio visit. I was so glad that Raphaella and I had hung the objects up last week as she got a proper sense of how its going to […]
I have recently started my own business, running an art gallery, providing art tuition, running craft workshops and after school clubs, and being an artist and undertaking commissions. All this is taking place whilst trying to balance family life, as […]
This week seems to have gone in a flash. I managed to spend a precious 2 days working in my studio.(well mostly just sitting, staring into space, at times sporting a rather fetching polystyrene box over my head. Don’t ask!) […]
Dominic Allan . Nikos Alexiou . Alex Bunn . Andrew Hladky . Bern Roche Farrelly .Stine Ljungdalh . Christina Mitrentse . Jonas Ranson . Lee Wagstaff . Marc Wayland The exhibition Celestial Contrakt navigates through the terrain of the ‘celestial […]
Dominic Allan . Nikos Alexiou . Alex Bunn . Andrew Hladky . Bern Roche Farrelly .Stine Ljungdalh . Christina Mitrentse . Jonas Ranson . Lee Wagstaff . Marc Wayland The exhibition Celestial Contrakt navigates through the terrain of the ‘celestial […]
