My mother sits next to her bed relatively hale and hearty next to her cadaverous roommates. They seem paler every time I visit. She delightedly told me that the “vampires” had visited earlier but had passed her by; I hope […]
Tons of muck flows into the canals each day, and gives the crumbling back-quarters of Venice the peculiar stink-half drainage, half rotting stone-that so repels the queasy tourist, but gives the Venetian amateur a perverse and reluctant pleasure. Add to […]
Hurrah, whoopie, good times and all that. We have the West Bromwich show all confirmed – now we just need to actually do it. In our wisdom (and lack of funds) , we thought that it was a marvelous idea […]
Its been ages since I posted and I don’t really hve any excuse apart from the fact that it’s been a crazy few weeks with work at the moment. I have started working again, but still feeling adrift with work, […]
I’ve been in the studio! Also, reading Foucault, or rather about him. Plan to tackle primary sources next week. Apart from that, I’ve been wondering about submitting work to juried shows. If you don’t do it, the work doesn’t get […]
…continued There is one other here on AN: Susan Francis touches on racism and sexism in her blog (#35 – you need to read it to get the context), then, in the next, how she had googled her name and […]
Quite a few of the other blogs have caught my eye, and it surprised me that at least three of us have marine forts in common! One of the blogs that I frequently read is Emily Speed’s (if there is […]
Congratulations on being selected for The Threadneedle Prize exhibition.We need 25 words from you on your work (i.e. on inspiration/ subject matter/ artistic technique). Best wishes, Emma Healey This reminded me of Marcel Duchamp responding to a question saying: “I […]
I don’t remember any of the art in Peggy Guggenheim’s museum in Venice but I still remember the names of her dogs. Duchamp’s grave reads: “Besides, it’s always other people who die.” Peggy’s grave reads: ‘Here lies Peggy Guggenheim 1898-1979
Burnmoor tarn Another chance to enter what for me is an enchanted domain above Eskdale and this time the weather is brighter. We weave our way through the furns past Eel tarn and on towards the horizons that we looked […]
Whilst holidaying in Cornwall, between large meals and some desultory swimming, I set about organising my affairs. We had planned a sort of Hammer Horror tour; apparently a Zombie film had been made in one of the local quarries. But […]
After Cornwall I had planned to travel north to visit my parents. My journey began badly as I lost a day stranded in a small village in Suffolk. Buses failed to turn up and trains were cancelled due to industrial […]
Not sure I should necessarily be posting posts like the last one. (clearly not, Andrew has since advised me to remove a section from it) It can be quite difficult to gauge how much is appropriate to say on a […]
16/08/09 So there are two Akhalkalakis… we decided to travel into Georgia by marshrutka from Gyumri to Akhalkalki, having checked that it was possible with the Armenian tourist office. It was only a couple of hours from Gyumri and not […]
Stop Press: our exhibition at Oriel Ynys Môn is now going to be in September 2011. It is hoped that an education programme will accompany the exhibition – details to be arranged. http://www.croesomon.co.uk/oriel_ynys_mn-22.aspx
i was driving around Nottingham, trying to find the gallery, when it occurred to me i had no idea where i was going. just behind that big arena thingy i thought. easy. it was easy to find the big arena, […]
Over the last two weeks I have been preparing to teachsummer holiday workshops for children. Having done two now I feel I have a formula that is working, but I have found you can’t plan for all eventualities and each […]
We got sort of half lost on today’s walk. We walked through corn fields with hay bales in for a while, needed a bit of guess work, but never really that lost. I dont think Cosmo knew we were lost […]
Got back to the college last night, really ready for a productive week. Spent a little time organising in the morning, then laid out all the pages from the book of knowledge, cut them to the right sizes and put […]
