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The second year option group were learning about screen printing today. I used my time in the print room working on a project I’ve just started about cell division. I made lots of little cells out of cereal boxes last […]

Cheap Weekly Update 7/10/09 Hey Everyone Welcome to this weeks bulletin!! As promised Cheap Zine issue 8 is now on sale and the first 6 people to buy their copy will receive a free copy of Michael Dhillon’s fantastic new […]

I recently stayed in my mother’s house while she was away. A small 1970s bungalow with large dark furniture squeezed in like a dollshouse that has the interior scale wrong.The three part Parisian wardrobe with cherry wood inlay is in […]

Marital infidelities in French ‘end of the (last) century’ novels are maintained via Le Petit Blue, a pneumatic postal network that ran around central Paris from mid nineteenth century until the 1980’s. Though I’ve got the occasional glimpse of them […]

Good news refreshes a thirsty man! Heard the happy tidings that I’ve been accepted on to this years AA2A residency scheme. I’ll be busying like a busy thing in the workshops down there, in the very near (and very busy) […]

Well, i still havent started any work. Not really. I’m getting really quite restless now that ive started to settle in up here in York. However, this may be because i’ve had flu for a week… I found an ancient […]

FIX09 artist: Phil Hessiantitle: …pierced them to their tender hearts…date: 01.10.09duration: 20 mins The lights are switched off. A UV darklight is left on, picking up green tape on the floor. The glowing green lines converge to a focal point […]

FIX09 artists: Morgan O’Hara, Third Angel, John Byrne, Curiousdate: Wed. 30th September During the course of the festival Morgan O’Hara has been in attendance at various projects with her Live Transmissions: drawings made by tracing the movements of the hands […]

We are making the final preparations for our stay at Y Nant in a fortnight’s time – ferries being booked, portable equipment being gathered together, weather forecasts being scrutinised. I’m not losing sleep over it all…..yet. But I will do […]

FIX09 artists: MA Art in Public title: The Anarchist Plotdate: Thursday 1st October and Friday 2nd October I called down to the Eglantine community garden on Friday afternoon. A square of wasteland enclosed by the back of four rows of […]

It’s an interesting choice to exhibit in a government building in Berlin. Can you tell me more about that? Yes, it’s thanks to Sabine Schumann who saw my work in Berlin – she works in one of the museums there. […]

FIX09 artists: Dan Shipsides title: T5 Field Cinemadate: Saturday 28th September & Sunday 4th Octoberlocation: Somewhere in the Mourne Mountains T5 Field Cinema is a project that involves getting a group of people, from various backgrounds, into the back of […]

All quiet on the project front at the moment – the SSC briefs are submitted and now I have to wait to find out whether anyone actually selects one of my topics to study next year. It took me a […]

It’s time for a new era! The last time i poured out in here i was 50/50 about where i was going next after the BA (hons) Photography degree. I had hopes of being accepted onto the MA programme at […]

Well, my laptop seems to have got over it’s funny turn, which is a huge relief. I couldn’t get past the warning message to do anything yesterday, but after a lot of faff it seems OK now. I shouted at […]

“It ain’t about how HARD you can hit, it’s about how hard you can GET hit, and still keep going!” so sayeth Mr. Balboa. It is my dark and guilty secret that, once in a while, when the house is […]

No stranger to discomfort I have agreed to another appearance talking in front of an audience. Again it will be in Cardiff and I am beginning to think the city may harbour some sort of deep seated grudge against me. […]

Discussed in our meeting today more about our ways of working in relation to Haden Hill House. I am interested in the way that Rachael wants to dig down into the core of the subject and bring to the surface […]

Got drenched on the way from the car to our cosy stall (Chorley today) in torrential rain. A big, red umbrella caught our eye immediately, the red being a pattern of bright red strawberries. We swiftly purchased 2 which came […]

And MEANwhile: another church project continues, and is soon to reach fruition. Holy Trinity Church, Leeds is to hold three pieces (possibly fore pieces) of work later this month and running into November, in time for the seasonal change and […]

wip:sthlm International Artist Residency Another full day in the studio. After two months here I feel as though I’m getting into my stride. Although I’ve been here since the beginning of August this is actually only my 23rd day in […]

A little stocktaking. It is almost a year now since I began writing this blog. I just read all my posts with some relief that there is not too much repetition. I intend to wander on. Some of what I […]