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 […]
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Venice, Venice
7 June – 22 November 2009
I’m working in a graveyard. This residency has me based in church grounds: an old chapel, newly converted into shiny studios. I’ve been appointed as Lead Artist and Project Coordinator for this, and over the next 12 months will recruit […]
BA Fine Art
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 […]
