There are things and experiences that I enjoy such as line and colour, paper and paint. I am just searching. I have been working on some more photographs of sunsets at St Ives. There are hundreds of thousands of sunset […]
Yesterday a man asked what I’d do if he pushed over the tunnel with the remote control digger, I said I’d build it again. He laughed and left. Dismantled the tunnel today to lay black plastic on the floor. Haven’t […]
A funny thing about writing a blog is people tell you they’ve read your blog and then I tell them what’s happened. But they’ll already know because they’ve read the blog.
So, the Linz blog has had to go for now. I stopped blogging about my work for lots of reasons last year, and thought it might be different during a residency. But it’s not. I think I tend to get […]
TV studios this afternoon and this evening. Some teams are stronger than others, for sure, and I think the key to that has been to be really clear about how they have decided to work together – either by doing […]
The project I am working on is expanding. I have invited friends and aquaintances from facebook and beyond to whistle a tune thus: ‘Hayley Lock is inviting everyone she knows to whistle a tune for a project I am doing.The […]
JULIET- At work in the art school shop and robotic with tiredness, I was up working on a drawing for the show untill late late night. Heres some photos of what we did at the Southside Studios yesterday. Install starts […]
The Bird man of Alcatraz shows Bert Lancaster is a ‘lifer’ who gets up every day to tend his collection of birds; he feeds and nurtures them lovingly. He cures their illnesses and becomes an expert on them. In a […]
After a fractious night, me awake panicking about having another hypo, my partner awake worrying about the proposed redundancies at work, I got up at 6am to grab a couple of hours in the studio before the children were awake. […]
I heard an interesting tale last night from an Australian doctor. She told me a story of a friend who came from Transylvania. One evening he explained that his grandmother had asked that her head be cut of after she […]
Events here at the Salzamt in Linz have got me thinking about the way artists get treated sometimes. The atmosphere between the three international artists here (including me) is glum to say the least. Instead of getting on with work, […]
Dominique here today! Last week was extremely busy and we spent Saturday having a general tidy up. We had a helping hand from Kathryn, one of our volunteers. She spent a good few hours ironing all the red clothes which […]
Just got home from work, spent today putting on a smile and asking customers if they need a carrier bags. I am going to Halifax this weekend to help put up the Temporary art space exhibition. Salon. I was hoping […]
CARRIE – ‘Well I’ve been grumbling at the lack I of time I have at the moment to watch Diagnosis murder, but these last couple of days, however jam packed, have been thoroughly exciting. Today Jen and I went to […]
