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Was wide awake from 2am and forced myself to get up at 6.30. Ventured out to a temperature -27degrees! It was still dark so I decided to start my run indoors (the recreation centre here opens at 6am!). Managed to […]

In May 2008, a group of artists and art students came together for a two-week outdoor exhibition in the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog. The exhibition was called "Inside Out". Archaeological illustrator John Swogger and myself, Diana Baur, co-ordinated the […]

How do we know what's real and what isn't? and does it matter? I made this video "The real one trick pony" outside Petra. ( view it on Youtube. ..quickest way is through my web-site:www.annshaw.net "Ann's films on Youtube" – […]

I am still working on my paintings although progress seems rather too slow for my liking! Compared to my banners I am finding the straight lines and clear cut edges difficult to achieve and the blocks of colour are having […]

Temporary art spaces in empty shops is big news: What to do with all the empty shops? (28th February) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7840421.stm The Fine Art Of Making The Most Of Recession (21st February) http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Dursley-G… Artists' creative use of vacant shops brings life […]

Intimate/macro space and covered/trajectory space an exploratory installation that with projection will, through material bind the two. An every day material such as electrical tape exists in its potential state as a sizeable object that can be experienced intimately, regardless […]

The Government have said that Arts Council need to cut admin costs by 15% by next year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/26/arts… Might this be the start of a mini-revolution where artists begin to adapt, cut out the middle men and sort out their […]

im now thinking that a telescope might be too much. i need to be able to justify a telescope. now a chimney i can justify. perhaps it is the word 'show' in degree show that is the problem. im going […]

I just read in a-n with great sadness that the Gomperts Trust will not have enough income to award grants this year. I have received two grants from the trust and have found it such a supportive organisation. This is […]

I used to have a tutor at Glasgow School of Art, ( Brian Kelly, since you ask) who used to say when we complained we had a problem. "Regard every problem as a challenge". And so it is that the […]

After a sleepless night worrying, went today to do my first shoot at the Tower Hamlets Archive. I arrived early as the librarian had suggested and indeed, found it very quiet, and more spacious than I remembered. A distinct lack […]

I've been to BCA gallery three times in the last month now. Just popping backwards and forwards dropping work off and talking to Eva about how to hang the show. Its quite odd looking back through work made last year […]

Mum died peacefully at home on Monday. I have to borrow words to say how I feel, but nothing articulates how much it hurts. She was a devoted mum and grandmother and I already miss her. Since she was diagnosed […]

I finally had my Big Crit on Tuesday, im glad to have done it and i am really happy about the responses i got. Preparing for the Crit made me think about my whole time at university, and how the […]

Once again it is along time since I wrote about this project you would think it is finished, but it is not. I have found this the most frustrating project I have ever done, I have clear my calendar for […]

TurnHurst have recently finished the pair of workshops; Making/Showing (& Making/Showing Virtually). It was a great experience and it started to create this amazing sense of unity within my peers. What we forget sometimes is to help eachother, and even […]