After a run of incidents, issues and bad luck Iwas hoping to post some more positive thoughts on the blog. Bad stuff happens but a break would be good. Running the studios has been a virtual process of late, but […]
Lately I’ve been asking myself: ‘Why am I doing this blog?’ Originally I thought that it would stimulate comment – and when it didn’t I posted the conversation I was having on my own web site. But now I understand […]
On Saturday I had a video screened at The Tenderpixel Gallery London as part of Rushes Soho Shorts. Unfortunately other commitments meant that I couldn’t attend. It will be showing every afternoon until 31st July. http://tenderpixel.com/rushes09.html They have also produced […]
My old friends at Wrights did me proud and the schlagg duly arrived, and so I was able to get on with gilding the panel, although the largest piece Ive yet done it all went without any problems and relatively […]
Wow, isn’t time going fast? I’m now in a space, not the one originally mooted but something closer and great for what I need over the next few months. Just getting to this point has required a questioning of needs […]
Watch the second Artothlon TV commercial. We only got it this afternoon – it looks more erotic than life really is… Ania and I were having a private discussion in my room and in comes Skirmatas, the cameraman, asking for […]
A toddler bangs on the window. “Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I come in? Can I […]
I’m in the back of the shop and I hear a women say to a man and a child “You two could do better than that.” The other day I could hear the bingo caller upstairs. Elaine walks past. I […]
Writing a blog has become a part of my practice in a completely unexpected way: it has become a work in itself. I made my first ever tentative attempts at writing a blog here, on Artists Talking. I have a […]
I have conceived this character, Colin d’Alaska, as a new work. I saw that his blog could give me the opportunity to explore new ideas, new ways of looking at images, new ways of communicating some of the issues that […]
Recently I painted some things red. It began because I wanted there to be more colour around, and so I said I want to paint things. I’d meant I wanted to paint pictures of things, so I could put them […]
I’m still thinking about these things I’ve been painting red, and why I’m not altogether convinced by them. I’m keeping them in their original places around the house, and that’s a good start, but despite that they’ve still got some […]
‘We drove down to the coast today. Mrs d’Alaska’s mum said we should boil the water before we went swimming.’ Colin d’Alaska, his family and friends, are a (kind of) living artwork, allowing me to investigate new methods of communicating […]
Writing about writing as artwork
This blog tracks the development of a drawing research project which explores relaltionships between activities of drawing and those other professional practices. It focuses on interrogating shared interdiciplinary enagagement with notions of ‘delicacy’ and aims to use this information to […]
My journey on the train was beautiful; the view literally consisted of tree, tree, tree, sap, tree, lake, tree, tree etc. I found myself becoming slightly frustrated that I could not be out in the forest but the sighting of […]
The project’s starting point was the collection of books from the local community (east end) which lasted about a year. Diversity of subjects and languages has become my source material for art making. These material thave been then manipulated and […]
FANTASTIC! I just logged on to my email – the first time since arriving in Stockholm – and see that I have been offered the residency studio at wip:sthlm. I’ll call/email Erik at wip:sthlm to arrange to meet him and […]
The Patina Series Drawing made using processes of magnification using grease on light sensitive paper. This work is the culmination of a series of experiments which explore the conventions around preservation in costumes archives. Ultimately conservators seek to prevent damage […]
About the project: The project seeks to examine relationships between investigative procedures in sciences of conservation, archaeology and medicine and the experimental tools and ideas of Art. It centres on the exploratory and analytical activity of drawing, where overlapping concerns […]
I have come back to this blog after a long gap. Its July, I’m making again, in a rather different direction. Venice is where my minds eye is looking. I went there in March and I have a rather large […]
To engage with a practice that confronts problems can be problematic, but it also produces possibility: this comes from re-assessing understandings and concepts that come from the things I have learned and characteristics I have attained… things familial. Many projects […]
continued….. In terms of how to see myself moving closer to a more sustainable practice, financially, I want to learn more about how to balance it. I find so far looking to other artists that I really admire (not just […]
Have I ‘found my practice’? I thought maybe Andrew might have gone mad or emailed the wrong person when he sent me this question. I didn’t really know I was supposed to be looking for it. This particular worry, I […]
Ok, I have done some (very rough) sketches of the sort of things I am hoping to have a go at making. I dont have access to a scanner at the moment so I only have photos of the drawings. […]
