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And so to the drawings… I’ve finished reading ‘Lines’ by Tim Ingold, and still occasionally dipping in here and there. It’s been a useful text. The lines that connect people, seen and unseen, are interesting. The lines inside people too. […]

3am: Wonder, paranoia and the restless night Curating the exhibition by Angela Kingston (The curator) Page 02:11 Philosopher Maurice Blanchot Linked the thematic show to a philosopher’s writings Research drawn from day-to-day conversations radio, TV, newspapers, writings of novelists, poets […]

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  Considering I have been thinking about this work for about a year, It is ridiculous that I hadn’t considered what it would actually do to my thinking once I got started. Having the money in the bank, the ACE […]

The wind is getting up. X lingers next to a snapped hawthorn bush, resting it’s gaze upon hoax static teetering on the entry to the lost junction. It scans the traffic below. ‘On a serious point, I don’t know what […]

I haven’t had time to update this blog with info, but the track Dreamwalker was played as part of The Dark Outside for Aerial Festival online. https://aerialfestival.com/ I am most likely to put the project back into retirement, unless there […]

Next week is Carer’s Week again, and carer’s charities are campaigning for carers to be more visible. Meanwhile, I’m campaigning for #wagesnotclaps https://helendearnleyillustration.blogspot.com/2020/05/ms-blackbirds-birdwatching-discoveries.html It would be helpful if other artists supported this campaign.

The initial thoughts of the proposed show: House, synonymous to home. The idea is that the house and the home is a safe place. It’s seen as a personal or intrapersonal place, but it could be extended to sociopolitical matters […]

I’m interested in mushrooms, fungi – I saw the mushroom exhibition at Somerset House before lockdown, fascinating. They are neither plant nor animal. Their communication networks are huge. The question was posed – could we join in with their wood […]

  What I’m going to do initially is looking at catalogues of previous exhibitions from various places in England. I know that I can’t see how the curators organise the physical works in the space through the catalogues, but I […]

The other day I’ve experimented with the cut outs by rearranging them in another order. Today I’ve experimented by dropping the shapes from a height to capture the role of chance. I’ve uncovered a difference in dropping them separately and […]

What do Ahmed Farooqui and Alban Low have in common? Ahmed Farooqui told me how he turned his house over to art – creating Space36 in which he invited artists into his home not just to exhibit there, but to […]