Doing nothing has never been so difficult! I have two years of jobs to catch up on, things that there just wasn’t time to do – what a friend calls ‘useful art’ i.e. painting and decorating and fixing up houses. […]
Have just uploaded “You have been spotted” video to Youtube. Yes it is an old piece of public art, an installation for the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, part of my portfolio for Glasgow School of Art but I found […]
26 August St.Omer – ran a short workshop with some local photographers which entailed walking around the town and photographing the architecture and shadows – all went quite smoothly and particiapansts seemed engaged. Benôit giving a kind of potted history […]
Well its been a while since ive posted and in that time i’ve thought a lot about my work and the work of others too. One of the comments on my last post was to look through old sketchbooks, which […]
Reading through the posts I’ve published so far, I’m concerned that I may just be a whiney artist!
Just wanting some opinion- should I publish the results of my survey on here? Obviously with NO contact details or names!
Annabel Dover wrote: Dear Sir/ Madam I was in the Fitwilliam museum yesterday and was looking at your big owl. He is a punchbowl cracked by an earthquake in San Fransisco- is that right?Please can you tell me more about […]
This week seems to have been taken up with confirming details for the Art-Jacking Debate, of which most are now completed. Its actually very exciting we have some fantastic speakers! So now begins unrolling the big press wagon! Now I […]
24/08/09 After some fun days in Ratcha, it was time to get back to Garikula to have more fun making work. Our first idea was to make a collaborative video and as we wanted to make something which is connected […]
In my garden is a swinging seat where I can sit quietly. This morning I found a sparrow lying dead in front of it. Like the pigeon before it, its arrival is timely. I have spent most of the day […]
Idea for suspended thread or rope grid in the nature reserve. Sketchbook page image.
26.9 – 4.10 09 Catalyst Arts presents FIX09, the 8th Belfast Biennale of live art. This year features music, singing, travelling cinemas, sea-searchers, drawing, westerns and much, much more. In addition to a panoply of performances and interventions, Fix09 also […]
EXHIBITION, TRACE & INVITATIONS D’ARTISTES 04.09.09 Since I arrived in France I have been re- installing my work ready for Saturday. This morning disaster almost struck as I dropped one of the DVD’s on a concrete floor and of course […]
“Trashed” Not a title for new work, no, but it is what has happened to my last panel.I have been working on this panel on and off, since March, and I should have been warned, as the damn thing has […]
Despite my ability to on occasion take pretty reasonable photographs, I have been taking great pleasure in reducing the quality, saturating the colours and generally creating images that look like tired old 1970’s and 80’s postcards. This current obsession is […]
Since the interview with Katie MacKinnon, I have been developing a ‘guising’ costume from her description; embellished using the common island dress of century ago as depicted in the island photo-archive. Having created a costume I then strode forth (with […]
I am soon to round up the recordings for the audio guide, in favour of more physical artworks and working on the play with the school. I have heard a rumour about a mythical cloak that lives in one of […]
Two Tuesday’s ago, I stirred my senseless body into wakefulness before dawn, and stole away from the little wooden cottage, heading up the track-ways towards the heart of the island. Not far on at all I found the forestry shed, […]
A ram born without any horns, that one of the volunteers rather sweetly named Macbeth and who I visualised in a recent image wearing prosthetic horns; has vanished from his familiar field. The name Macbeth seemed to suit the curious […]
The Swap Shop installation is finished now that I have affixed the icons to it. Attached is some documentation of the them being applied to Swap Shop items.
…and here’s some of the icons.
I have my laptop at the studio today.This evening I’m making a presentation to the artists who have studios here at wip:sthlm.There is never an ideal day or time to do this kind of thing. Friday is the end of […]
The Project Eigg residency period is over. I am back in Glasgow having had a hectic week or so of wrapping things up on the island, and now I am examining almost a thousand images of documentation and new work. […]
At the end of the week, and with so little time left to make new work, we were amazed to wake up to rays of sunshine. Knowing it would be short-lived we bolted up the steep track-ways to the base […]
I’ve had a very productive afternoon doing all of the little jobs ready for Finland – its just the big jobs that are left now such as tightening up my Seminar paper. I had a sneak preview of the NUCA […]
