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We all met at yesterday at five. I mean, us, the artists. Agreed that this couldn’t go on – but we were invited here to do work, we want to do it, we can if they let us get on […]

continued from last post… We phone Zilnas, Eero was expecting to do a lecture – paid – on the Wednesday – he’d been booked, after someone else dropped out. Zilnas is out of town but agrees to get on to […]

Paulius has arrived. My stuff is now off the laptop. He wants the Sim cards back – they have under a fiver’s worth of credit. The milk has run out. I’m off to the CAC for some breakfast.

Where do we go after art school? Having finally been severed from the umbilical support structures that have maintained us for a matter of years, how do we confront that myth of “the real world”? Do we collapse into saleability […]

My goodness, my Blog! I have neglected to write for a bit, as I have been busily undertaking the beginning of the residency and with minimal internet access. Now I am back online I’ll add a few posts to update […]

Almost a year since I first stepped off the Cal-Mac Ferry, I finally returned to Eigg. I’ve spent almost a year proposing, planning, and preparing, and it feels as if I have already done the project a hundred different ways […]

It’s been a few weeks now since I landed on shore, and I have settled in very well. The public information letters that I sent out before my arrival are starting to tally-up in the islanders’ minds, with the strange […]

so now it is all over and the results, happily, better than I ever expected, it was quite emotional but I now feel a bit lost. As a mature student I am not looking for a career in photography although […]

25 July – Wandered around Boulogne all day – did all the tourist stuff and then felt confused about what I was doing – so many ideas and words swimming around my head …. kept getting side tracked. The place […]

26 & 27 July – moved up the coast and visited Cap Gris Nez and could see White Cliffs of Dover – Very exicted to find lots of bunkers and traces of Henry II’s fort. Found an enormous doughnut shaped […]

According to Froebel: “to give the child a ball to play with is to guard himself against ill-humour and all the moral evils of which it is the root. It also protects him from his own desires and passions…”

PARALLEL BLOGS Earlier this year Sharon Haward and I (along with 10 other artists) made new work in response to the Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne. It was a great location and I think we both loved working there. It made me […]

spent the day editing video of the shoots this week. Trying to take my voice out of the sound track, and then impprting it into after effects to get the size, the levels. It taken ages, but i have done […]

The broadband is dicky, much has happened and I haven’t been able to record it. But here’s yesterday’s sequence of events. First thing, Tom bailed. Slipped away in the night with his whiffle hurling bats. Everyone very sad. Massage vouchers, […]

Half past ten, Saulius has arrived after giving blood this morning and Justin, Eero and Monica are dumpster diving downstairs. I go help them bring stuff up – hula hoops, a toy fire engine – a printer. Monica is beside […]

It’s always an interesting diversion to google yourself and see what comes up, what other Susan Francis’s are out there doing, living with the same name in some strange pararellel existance. I have many Susan Francis’s I like, the first […]

It turned out to be quite an amazing evening. A whirlwind of chatter! I think I spoke about my work for about 5 hours straight. In fact I got a rather lovely review, my very first one from Spoonfed. I […]

I have worked this weekend mostly on re-viewing, re-working, re-painting, and re- gilding. This is a tricky time for me, will the panel look as I have it in my head after all the processes have gone through, and sometimes […]

Getting quite excited now about the Exeter show. It will be interesting to see how that huge warehouse is transformed.

I haven’t seen an English newspaper for two months, since the 7th of June in fact. I don’t expect to see another until mid-September. I get the gist of what’s going on in the world through the BBC news page […]

Its been a really busy time – today is Friday, the 6th Day of the residency. I have a fantastic time yesterday with Gordon – working through ideas, playing, experimenting. Gordon is a great person to discuss ideas with and […]

Trying to get the timings worked out for this residency has been consuming…when will things be finished by? Natacha and Michael don’t really know. I am trying to push things back, but still trying to push things ahead. Now that […]

Elaine asked if I needed showing how to turn on/set up the projector for Teresa and Dominique. I said it’s OK, you did it. Elaine laughed. I didn’t mean…… It seems that my comment is negative but that’s not the […]