'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 […]
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
9 September 2008 – 29 July 2009
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
3 March – 17 May 2009
Mixed day yesterday. In the morning tried another recorded run to the Vermillion Lakes Road. It was another glorious day, but still pretty cold: -13 with a wind-chill of -25 but sunny. I needed all the layers I had on. […]
Today was much warmer at -4 in the morning, which is mild for here. I was toying with going in to Calgary to seek out some mini web-cams. I’m looking the possibility of working direct with these as they can […]
Scot and I have both been working hard on our core work and our print elective for our degrees. Scot has been looking at litter and stains and this is juxtaposed with my work, which is about crossing the River […]
AirSpace Gallery is pleased to announce Trying to Cope with Things that aren’t Human (Part One) :- An international touring group exhibition and publication curated by Ian Brown. Artist: Alan Currall, Alex Pearl, Annika Strom, Francis Mckee, Ian Brown Heather […]
I went to the Byzantium exhibition at the RA today. It is a show of beautiful objects, collectors' items, carefully labelled to show provenance and ownership; and that is its problem. Its all about ownership, collecting and curating as the […]
The artistic process of creating a site-specific live art intervention for a public art exhibition. Notes from the invitation to the performance.
Prophecies and Deceits is part of my MA final project. I am working with language, not only through the written word but through the signs and symbols used to communicate and express thoughts and feelings. I am particularly interested in […]
I am mainly surrounded by piles of paper as I put together book after book after book in preparation for BABE (Bristol Artists' Book Event) on the first weekend in April. After the last 'paying to enter' things entry, I […]
