I've just come home from seeing the Cildo Meireles exhibition at the Tate Modern – it was incredible! Despite crowds to rival the toilets at Glastonbury the visceral influence of the artwork was still noticeable. With the exception of the […]
So dissertations are almost in, I never knew 'italicising' some words and not others would take so long…My subject is: A Discussion on what the Effects of Globalisation might be on contemporary art in Russia and it's former "satellite states" […]
Exciting news! we have an exhibition in the Project Space at the Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston! The Private View is on 28th January and the show runs till the 31st. It runs alongside the show in the main gallery […]
This is really fun: 101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself (Rob Pruitt) http://www.e-flux.com/projects/pruitt/index.php3?num=0
Working today on finalising the arrangements for my forthcoming trip to America for the opening of the show in Redhouse Arts Centre. It will be held in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery and is titled Inishlacken; the last parish. 23 […]
OK! Lots of intangible spinning and braking going on unseen in my mind, while I discover and rediscover another inspirational idea, only to realise when I try to formulate it, that it disappears as quickly as it materialised. I do […]
Blimey, that would have been embaressing! I had to write all the names of various stake holders on this mosaic. I emailed the paymasters an image pre installtion, just to say I had finished and would install next week. I […]
This is my first blog so I write with some trepidation. However I feel that reflecting on my work in this way will help me retain my center. Collaborating with Schools presents lots of challenges to the Artist particularly over […]
Birds begin to gather for the Floc project.
easing back into comfortable shoes. it's thursday of bdo world darts week. disappointingly the wizard was dazzled and now returns to oz to prene and wait for another contest. adams has got through, yet again making a lesser player look […]
French project. Watercolour, oil pastel. Landscape, narrative, mark-making, colour-relationship, proportion, quality of line… Incomplete. Work in progress.
NEW BEAN FOR A NEW YEAR A magic bean arrived in the post for me. It came from Germany. Wiebke and Benno had planted the bean I sent in a Breaking Ground seed packet and I posted the photos they […]
I'm really enjoying a week of wallowing in art ideas and making. I've moved up a gear now towards making 'What the Chamber Maid Saw' for the Grand Hotel in Scarborough. It's an amazing building, '‘Originally constructed in 1863, it […]
Thinking about place "You can't know who you are until you know where you are". Wendell Berry. Sense of place involves the feel of place and feeling for place. Sense of place a refuge from the unknown. Place is where […]
