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LAST FEW DAYS 03.10.09 Well… I go home to Nottingham tomorrow after a rather productive week I feel. I was not expecting the work with the butchers to be so interesting and I hope this has proved to me that […]

Some people live in rural villages, others in big cities. Wherever they live – in mountains, forests and deserts, and on islands, people all around the world are busy doing the same things. We may all look very different, but […]

FIX09 artists: Anne Quail, Elena Cassidy-Smith, Noemi Lakmaier date: Tuesday 29th Septemberduration: all day Excuse the delay in making these posts, finding the time to write-up notes among all that is going on is proving to be a task in […]

I haven’t had much time to reflect on our Haden Hill visit but I have been thinking about how this collaboration will move forward. I’m inclined to let it take shape naturally. So far we have been talking through each […]

Its been quite a while since we last posted anything but we have been very busy collecting our two groups of people in Bury and Chorley who will be joining us on our ‘red day out’. Our aim was to […]

Day 13 Oh dear, lots of information to add since my last posting, as is always the way, being in the process has been all consuming and the production, reflection and documentation sit side by side, my desire to summarise […]

Another element of research finds its beginnings in the make-up of Leeds’ new city museum that opened in 2008. Upon making friends with an assistant who worked there I managed to locate and attain a number of wooden panels that […]

Working site-specifically – working with solitude – working with architecture I am currently working on a small project that needs the capacity to re-locate or translate itself. The interior qualities and histories of St. Mungus Cathedral, Glasgow seem to have […]

At the front of a very long queue of traffic, in conversation with the man in the toll booth at the Humber Bridge. man: £2.70 love me: oh dear… the thing is, I don’t actually want to cross the bridge…I […]

The Concept Observing Lowry’s paintings I have noticed his people very often wear hats. I went on to address this theme. A hat, a helmet, a beret, a cap, a scarf, a hood, a crown. What are the messages they […]

It’s only a couple of weeks until I host the first national Empty Shops Conference. Now conferences all look a bit big and scary, but this is organised on a shoestring (which has been jointly funded by Worthing Regeneration and […]

A ps to start with- these posts will not always be so long.. Finally, after a year of writing, and editing, so many times, the large enveloped arrived, confirmation of the grant from the Arts Council. Since then (beginning of […]

into october and already the cold weather is zapping a battery. i’ve set up a blogger blog for the ma. the first module’s evidence will be kept on the blog. i’m pleased to have had a year’s experience of blogging […]

Welcome to my blog! This blog will be about the project I have just started which is an investigation into knitting! At the moment I am knitting small trees which started of being maquettes for a collaborative project I am […]

Giant Lego penguin stolen from doorstep A THREE foot tall Lego penguin was stolen from the doorstep of a home in Little Bealings. The Lego bricks, stuck together in the shape of a penguin, were snatched from Martlesham Road between […]

Last night I dreamt that I was watching a fellow tutor, John, in a cine film. He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and had Shawshank redemption glasses on and the tenor of the scene suggests it was the sixties. He […]

royal parks said a v.polite no, they want to see the film, they have an arts programme etc. should have continued to be ignorant and shown it and not asked nicely. hmmm. frustrated now. will send it in to the […]

As your work has developed, have you found yourself more studio based than spending time physically out in the landscape? It depends. When a project idea emerges I travel on foot or by public transport, to research, it’s the travelling […]

I have a good week not done much hands on artwork, I have been working out how to move my work on, so spent a lots of times thinking and working out in my mind different ideas until I feel […]

Well, well, well, its October already! And it’s all go! go! go! I had a great time in France last week, lots of cheese, wine, fresh air, cycling, canoeing, relaxing …. just what I needed. This week has flown in. […]