degree show tonight. must buy new clothes. it's very exciting. will add more about it all when i've had time to reflect… have fun one and all.
On Wednesday I attended a website training seminar as part of my Enterprise Inc business training scheme for the Lincoln Artist's Network. The first half was basic how to build a website stuff, I already have one, so I was […]
Murder in the Kremlin opened at the Wasp Room last Friday, and went down very well it seems. It's amazing how much people genuinely love cardboard dens. All we have done really is realise some kind of universal, epic dream. […]
Please excuse the quality of my images today – they are mobile phone specials! However, it is to give an idea of the sheer amount of grey I have covered in the past few days. The pictures were taken during […]
I explored the Art Trail thing a bit further but I still feel it's a no-goer for me. Laurence Rushby (currently blogging on this site) has a proposal in for an installation/performance so I'll let her pave the way first […]
Todays words towards this project are: bead, perspire, fringe, sacking, fur, whisker, ear
Another rejection causes me to write, if only to try and get down why. I asked, and got, some feedback from the said people, which first left me angry, confused, then in denial a bit, sad and now confused again. […]
I am having doubts about the Well Hall Road painting I dont know if the size has defeated me- for me smaller, finer works better perhaps….or whether the building is too undetailed. Sometimes a painting just does not work and […]
I have chosen the floral dress as my vehicle for a nostalgic journey into my childhood during the 1960s. To remember a time when my dad was a painter and decorator, my mum was the manageress of a fabric shop, […]
MEETING no. 2 On Wednesday evening 6 of the 12 (or 13?) Artists in the WET exhibition met at the pub, and things got off to a slowish start, but picked up once we started discussing the pieces that we […]
LISTENING TO RICHARD BILLINGHAM I am not usually all that interested in photography, unless it has an architectural or industrial feel to it, but on Thursday afternoon i had the opportunity to listen to Richard Billingham talk about his practice […]
Feeling SO much better last 2 days. Worked so hard all week and had so many people helping out that the 10 books in tubes are now all FINALLY……FINISHED!!!! YAY There is however a massive amount of work to do […]
I went to Derby University Degree show today and really enjoyed the work on exhibition. It was a diverse mix of work as is usual in degree shows but the work was of a very high standard, which is not […]
MY NEXT EXHIBITION Visual at Baskerville House 2009 presented in association with Art of Ideas II FREE ADMISSSION Open daily, 30 June – 12 July, 11.30am – 6.00pm Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND This exhibition has been selected […]
White paint grey paint black paint Despite the never ending coats of paint i am really enjoying setting up my space for the degree show. My work is going to be shown in various bars and venues with a performance […]
I have been awake half the night thinking about all the things I need to do before Monday. I still get ideas and I have decided to see if I can manage to incorporate them before entering the gallery. This […]
Going back to comics: The first graphic novel with a medical theme that I came across was Cancer Vixen, by Marissa Marchetto. See my review of it at www.graphicmedicine.org . I liked the autobiographical form of the book, and felt […]