Tra la la, Tralala, everything lovely, on top of everything, leisurely session in studio exporting video for light night. Tra la laaaaaagh!!!! Logon process initialization failure. Please consult the event log for more details. I have an event log? huh? […]
In November we’re holding a workshop at Goldsmiths around circulation, distribution and dispersion of artwork. I want to think about artworks that make claims about not being circulated. My interest in this area stems from my own work, but I […]
My new wallet: Is an old wallet and belongs to my friend Cad’s Nana. Nana looked like Rembrandt and like my grandmother was paranoid that tinkers were stealing the stones in her Waterford garden. Nana did other funny things that […]
5th October – next step is the Dover Installation at the Box Gallery. I am looking forward to developing this part of the project and am keen to build the work up through layers of media and imagery. Have now […]
Well, YSP has begun, day one in a school today and it was great, a lot of fun and targets achieved! I am staying in Yorkshire for the next few days (very kind friend’s parents who have fed me and […]
Hello Angela is Kevin in please? Hello it’s Annabel sorry Oh sorry, is it I alwyas thought it was Angela I am sorry. It’s Geoff here from the seniors at the yacht club. Hi Geoff I think you’ve got the […]
I have been slowly building up to making a new film. It is a continuation of my, so far, reasonably secret space films which, although he doesn’t know it yet, are intended for Michael Cousin’s online project Outcasting. They use […]
Tracey and Hayley, the artists who are showing work in the HMS Exhibition Space during our open studio event, came to stay on saturday night. We talked til 1.30pm. After a quick tour of Southwell Minster we were at the […]
Finally I can start my new blog. I have been suffering from a mental block lately. Revving my engine just a little too long and somehow managed to stall. I started at Wimbledon last Thursday, which was great. A few […]
In some ways this blog is neither a project blog nor a degree blog. It’s a bit of both I suppose, with the main project being my own developing focus on my practice and the way in which the MA […]
Have joined Glasgow Print Studio in their brand new premises – 107 Trongate. This must be the smartest arts centre in the UK. It is great having everyone under one roof with the added bonus of the Russian cafe/restaurant built […]
Margaret Attwood looked at a survey taken in the 1980s in the U.S.Men’s biggest fear: humiliatedWomen’s biggest fear: raped and killed
A few days ago I had an idea for another drawing experiment. I had been reflecting on something else when the thought flashed up. Because it was experimental there was not too much pre-thought, other than asking myself what I […]
My first week was great – I really got into my research and have already found a couple of avenues that might be fruitful. I spent much of the time in the Local Studies Unit in Manchester’s Central Library. I […]
I’m back from London, and I was lucky to have enjoyed some lovely sunny weather during my hour on the Plinth….. the only thing that annoyed me was the wind! I spent my time drawing random people and things in […]
Day 14 Successfully prototyped painting flesh tones onto icing yesterday before succumbing to illness that arrived with the immediate fear of swine flu, but it’s just a bad cold. Cheered myself up by researching into male and female erogenous zones […]
Being Home As soon as you begin your return journey, you just want to be home. The train journey to the airport was sad – i can’t think of a better word, it was dark, cold and raining for the […]
Well I have applied for about 8 different commisions and NOTHING has happened – yet. In a way this is no bad thing as it is quite exciting knowing that the wheels are in motion and something somewhere is happening. […]
I write about this in my ‘art’ blog because art is not about art if it is not about life. I heard today, unexpectedly, of the death of my secondary school English teacher. It was not just his death that […]
Venice, Venice
7 June – 22 November 2009
Jake Spicer, 'Drawing Cards from the Deck', Digital photo, Oct 2009. Photo: Jake Spicer. Courtesy: The Brighton Life Drawing Sessions. Frankie Cluney as Justice - publicity shot for the Brighton Life Drawing Sessions
Rosina Godwin , 'My Inner Self', Textiles, 2008. Photo: Rosina Godwin.