Finally managed to get along to the Little Folly childrens' centre, a new organisation, really well used and full of families all day, in 'The Heath', an estate with a somewhat notorious reputation in Salisbury. Passing police posters encouraging you […]
I've finally gotten round to adding more of the images as I promised in my last post. I've been working on an idea of a box, a cuboid painting where each side informs the other, and it is becoming an […]
If I thought my involvement with the book "Children of Craig-y-nos" was over until the launch on May 1st then I was very mistaken. The past few weeks have been hectic- what with final proof-readings, sending out invitations to the […]
NORTH North: noun, situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north. North of where? Position is relative and attitude is dependent on so many factors, not just latitude. North opening: Friday 3rd April 2009, 5-8pm (bring […]
Artists announced for NORTH pt1 Callum Bell "In using that which is familiar to myself, materials that usually have an association with the 'home' & thus domesticity are employed. My logic is that, as I want to make work about […]
Artists announced for NORTH pt2 Esther Johnson "Esther Johnson, MA RCA, takes a poetic approach to documentary and narrative through film, video, audio and photography. Her work reveals resonant stories that would otherwise be hidden or ignored. Recurring themes include […]
Artists announced for NORTH pt3 Giuliana Sommantico"Giuliana Sommantico was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974. It was in 1991 when she took her first photography course in Martinez Public Library, BUE, when she discovered the "laboratory world." So, after […]
You can't help but be uplifted when you walk into HMS. Bernard's paintings provide the tonic you need when emerging from a dark period. With the Spring weather and colours that dance before your eyes, yesterday heralded a new, optimistic […]
Every couple of years I think up a good-sounding show, gather together my best slides, cobble together an artist's statement (still a bit of a mystery, that one) and CV, and send the collection off to a variety of galleries. […]
TV Licensing 1st letter: To: The Present Occupier 34-35 Piece Hall Halifax HX1 1RE March 2009 Ref: 3187320809HM5 Dear Owner/Occupier, OFFICIAL WARNING – THIS PROPERTY IS UNLICENSED You are hereby notified that we have authorised officiers from our Enforcement Division […]
The Kent Wildlife trust are the new owners of the woodlands where Cosmo goes on dog walks. Very large areas of pine trees are being chopped down. The plant machinery required are very large. 100's of tones of concrete rubble […]
TV Licensing 2nd letter: 1/467-010597/000041:001-A 454000 To: The Present Occupier 34-35 Piece Hall Halifax HX1 1RE Lic No: 3187320809 Ref: 34-79-64870RE A VISIT TO THIS PROPERTY WAS AUTHORISED ON 18/03/09 Dear Sir/Madam, As Regional Manager of West Yorks TV Licensing […]
BH Fine Art Degree.
The children have both started at school, giving me hours of creative time a week; the computer business I started, to make ends meet, now makes a reliable profit; many of my friends have forgotten that I was ever an […]
Nothing came for ages as a response to Sue's luminous monoprints….then I started to think about connections between waiting and watching. Poor steadfast St. Kevin's stillness and patience and the endurance of the watchers scanning their inmates or their CCTV […]
I am so excited at the moment about the things going on with my practice and the changes ahead. I love looking ahead to things, feeling a certain amount of pressure and having plans. On Tuesday I went along to […]
My scanner isn't big enough to show you the whole piece, but here is a detail. Pam
Just as I was talking about the notion of rejecting everything, while on a much needed break in the forests of Suffolk, I actually had the time to read a newspaper, in which Tracy Emin's column was discussing exactly the […]
Changeover 27th March – 3rd April 2009 What could be more temporary than guerilla exhibitions in a Temporary Art Space during the taking down of one show and the hanging of the next? Every day promises to be different with […]
Changeover 27th March – 3rd April 2009 Kathryn Oubridge's installation/intervention/performance during the Changeover between Temporary Art Show (March 2009) and North (April 2009)
Well, it took me a week to recover but I finally got all the elective work displayed – just have to wait now. That part is always the worst for me. On a different note I have been researching cardboard […]
