Top of my list to do today is send feedback for the CCS consultation: http://www.ccskills.org.uk/visualarts The process is an open one so please go to the website, read throught the document and send your thoughts on it! It could be […]
This Friday I have a deadline for a competition brief, and I'm working on something for that. I just wanted to add some thoughts before I disappear into deadline hell… I just want to clarify that I am still looking […]
Just back from Egypt. Got message on my Iphone that another proposal had been rejected. Grrr…. Anyway snapped this image outside a fish restaurant in Sharm El Sheik. Waiting to see proofs of book. People already registering for a place […]
I thought I had been really smart – writing a blog entry on my work laptop while commuting. I emailed the blog to me so I could cut and paste it but I can't – the work laptop has a […]
Feeling a bit disillusioned. I had made some definite style decisions for the journey part of the project and stuck by them on the shoot. I picked up the negs and have now scanned them, they have come out ok […]
I’ve fallen on to page four of the blog pages… that doesn’t give a sense of keeping it going that I’d like to have at the moment. The reason I haven’t written is because I knew I would have hardly […]
It's about time I wrote some sort of description of and about 'What the Chamber Maid Saw' – for some reason this task has grown into a monster in my head – not sure why, but can't be bothered to […]
How things change. I have decided that instead of using hooks in the ceiling as I usually do, that I will use metal grills suspended from the ceiling of the gallery that will then have the 'exploding notes' secured to […]
2.5 Hours of Oxygen
Birmingham, 19 March 2009 11.30am-2.00pm
On Thursday March 19 a two-and-a-half hour group show, will take place in seven red K6 telephone boxes in the centre of Birmingham.
The exhibition, entitled 2.5 Hours of Oxygen, […]
Forum Kiosk -invitation to participate Forum Kiosk
19 March 2009 11.30am – 2.00pm Victoria Square Phone Box Birmingham +44 (0) 121 643 0154 Forum Kiosk is part of the public art project 2.5 Hours of Oxygen; a series of […]
Earlier this year I was contacted by a research student at the University of East London and asked whether I would be willing to take part in current research into creativity, creative individuals and creative experiences…
POST, a collective of female artists based in Liverpool have been awarded a go and see bursary from a-n. Follow POST as they develop international links, starting with the European Capital of Culture 2009 – Linz, Austria.
Its been a couple of weeks, which have seen me spend a few days in Berlin (always a pleasure), and write many, many words. I'm actually really enjoying writing. Always have, just find it hard to motivate myself. As it […]
Just spent over £200 on supplies, mainly printer ink and good archival paper for my portfolio (and a new A1 portfolio). Big OUCH! Am applying to the 3rd year of a BA, won't say where (don't want to jinx it!)… […]
I am busy trying to get my dissertation finally ready to be bound and handed in that will be a huge weight off my shoulders and then a push at the final unit of bringing things together. I have a […]
'if you approach things with a sense of humor, people immediately assume you're not to be taken seriously. but I think truths about society and human existence can be approached in different ways. you don't always have to be deadly […]
The project Forum Kiosk all started on Saturday 3rd January 2009 when the curator, Anne Forgan emailed me: "hi, I found out about your work through some googling and I wondered if you'd be interested in a project I'm currently […]
Since my last post the ghostly apparitions are beginning to take shape. In all their different shadowy guises they have come to adopt their own character and life. Meantime my thoughts about how they might manifest in the Redhouse proposal […]
A blog catch up… I started my ‘be more creative' New Year well, with an invitation to create a site-specific artwork for the collaborative public art show, 2.5 Hours of Oxygen. 2.5 Hours of Oxygen is a public art project […]
The Joys of spending a bursary. POST formed at the end of 2008 after the seven artists involved exhibited at the Liverpool International Artists exhibition during the Liverpool Biennial. Inspired by each other’s work, and with international ambitions, the group […]
'Steffan Jones-Hughes'. Photo: sjh.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
9 September 2008 – 29 July 2009