My original blog was a step into the unknown. It has meandered around in my head whilst I have been working and has given me a reference point around which to think. My work has changed since I started. The […]
Here are a couple of works created in the studio last year, it was around a time when i was using a lot of found objects and creating sculptural pieces with a quick and playful way of arrangement. These two […]
Ive been collecting interesting types of packaging for a little while now not really knowing why i was drawn to them apart from their qualities as materials. I decided to bring a couple of pieces in to the studio and […]
Im currently starting a collaborative project with fellow student Krystle Shard. This is the first time Ive collaborated on a project and it came together after wanting to put on a show together where we devise and make new work […]
November's arrived and the studio's plodding on. After returning to my practice following a ten year gap it's taking time to get to grips with the system and where and how my work can fit in. Artsway gallery offers a […]
Not a lot to report for last week. I was working on a new piece at the studio most of the week. It’s a flat wire drawing outlining a particular view of my studio. I have suspended it in front […]
Tomorrow I am finally to meet some of the interested parties in the Caterham project as I go to the Arc for a meeting of the Caterham Arts Festival committee together with Becci Kenning and Katy Potter from the Arts […]
I have no idea where this blog will go. I was inspired in part by the shared uncertainties found in the blogs that I read!! I hope to use it as a means of working through thoughts and possibilities in […]
My final days in the Pyrenees were spent finishing my installation. In my original communication with Jonathan and Helen I had discussed many different ideas that might convince them and me to take on this project. The idea that got […]
Jennifer Kirk Jennifer Kirk's preoccupation is with the everyday artefacts that order and control our lives without us scarcely being aware of it. Her project is to picture the promise of technology, and to make plain how we are all […]
Dear all, after a miss spent youth creating obscure liasons between and betwixt unrelated objects in order to savour the subtle nuances of meaning created by the conceptual subsets of specific space and form generated by object associations, I stopped […]
Still tying up the exhibition before moving onto new things – well, new applications anyway. So I'm posting some pages from the Ex Voto edition of Kalender that acted as the catalogue to the show. I'd only ever intended to […]
a text message exchange I had with Liz Whitehead, one of the Co-Directors of Fabrica Gallery: Susan: I love your hopefulness. It's rubbing off on me. Liz: You have to be hopeful if you are running a publicly funded arts […]
Review deadline this week. After much deliberation and complete lack of having seen anything relevant to my practice, even though things not relevant excited me, I chose to write about David Blandys ‘The search For Mingering Mike’ at the Bluecoat […]
Arghhh. I know I'll feel better tomorrow, but seriously, how do you review something relevant to your practice when your practice hangs by a very fine thread? I got it wrong this year, but this year it matters. I'd rather […]
Emailed to me by Jonathan Swain: "We control the daytime, they control the night throughout." David Davis describing the military situation in Helmand Province,Afghanistan.BBC radio 20.10.08
On 6 and 7 November the Engage national conference was held in Brighton around the Brighton Photo Biennial. I attended on 7 November and ran a breakout session about my residency in Fabrica. I found the session difficult in that […]
I got in a mood and failed to go to Space – that's only partly true, I realised I'd been spending too much money going to London and as I'm off to Amsterdam this week I thought I'd better give […]
I have recently completed what feels like my first real exhibition of work. It was a group exhibition featuring work from 20 students at the AIB. What made it interesting was that we were working with members of the local […]
I only really use drawing as a way of thinking on paper and all my drawings are are just technical plans of structures I'm planning on building. I find my work evolves alot faster on paper and I can make […]
