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Internships. I have just been reading Andrew Bryant's report about working with Tate media for three months. It sounds like great experience, and not something that could be replicated elsewehere.

Bird migration is fascinating and an incredible phenomenon. Groups of birds setting off from one place and gathering in another is intriqing. Why do they do it and how do they know how to do it! The advantages of being […]

do I have to live feeling disappointed? a quick check of the dictionary, there’s a time element to the word disappointed, either being stopped in doing something or something that has been done not being as it could be in […]

Some images from the exhibition. It went really well, over 60 people came, the performances by Steve Nice and Hannah Matthews were superb!!

i got a letter yesterday informing me i have an interview for the ma course- next monday. argh. slight panic about non existant portfolio. ive been concentrating on applying for the new contemporaries exhibition and filming/editing. im presenting in convenor […]

I had a lightbulb moment this week. Have spent many an hour and many pages of my sketchbook trying to figure out a way to transport my book explosions into the gallery for the degree show. They are so delicate […]

I have in the pipeline another piece of work towards my exhibition. Felt alot calmer when a friend, after seeing some of my drawings expressed a liking for one I had rejected as not suitable to paint. I keep an […]

Sue and I have arranged to meet early next week to spend the afternoon together in the print studio, and see what occurs from looking at each others work together… In the meantime, I have worked on the images I […]

Pam again…..I've just inverted the last images I showed you and am going to try the gum arabic transfer process that Sue Brown describes in this winter's edition of Printmaking Today….

Things have continued to move forward today. After my last printing session when I struggled to see how things were going to fit together. Today after much thinking and less doing, 'the penny dropped' and the image is working much […]

So the last couple of days have been good because ive been in from 9am through to 6pm, Alison the ceramic and casting technician has been giving me a lot of help and ive managed to figure out how to […]

These are the latest images from my current work. They fit together to form one long image. Allison John

AirSpace are back after a well deserved winter break. The Conjunction 08 festival was really well received and we are still getting positive feedback. The next exhibition at the gallery will be 'Trying to cope with things that aren't human […]

Just an observation – I looked at my Arts Jobs email tonight and I think something like 16 out of 38 jobs advertised were unpaid. Most worrying were the administrator and technician positions on there (unpaid) – that's not something […]