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Taught my Critical Fine Art Practice students today all day in Fabrica sat around the large round discussion table in the gallery. It was part of my plan to explore new environments for teaching in. It went very well. The […]

Judith Kazantzis, poet, has sent me a response to the Incommensurable Banner as well as the image that accompanies this post, which is entitled 'war is pants': "I meant to send this pic earlier, the woodcut I did after the […]

Well things have been pretty hectic for me the past few weeks. The print centre will have a stand at the Manchester Artists Book Fair which takes place on Saturday 8th November in the Holden Gallery at MMU just off […]

and in the fourth week, there shall be tutorials. it feels like i've been starting something for a month. i hope from a start the middle isn't too far away. i've added a tutorial storey to my portfolio of storeys, […]

I moved stuff into my home studio last Friday with only 10 minutes to spare before the rest of Southwell artists arrived for drinks and nibbles. I've been working all hours cleaning, decorating, lugging, moving, staining, typing, drilling etc etc […]

I made some glue today (which was a little too stiff, I will need to knock it down a little) and I tried to buy a chieftans album. I saw a documentory about them yesterday. And what I thought was […]

Fantastic, I managed to get into the studio 3 days on the trot. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I was in early all 3 days but managed to get a good 5 hours each day. I've been working on a few […]

thursday was spent etching and the results felt better. i was after a familiar landscape, a faint hazy one that slowly dissapeared. i printed the plate four times until it was distant, only the imprint of the plate was present. […]

Last week was a bit of a slow one in terms of working on ideas. It was my four day week at the gallery doing ‘real’ work and even when I was at the studio it was getting ready for […]

YESTERDAY Yes the Open Day for UNDER GROUND and Big Draw event Drawing in the Dark have happened. Plenty of people came tramping down the wooden stairs into the dark. Each collected a torch and looked, examined, drew on the […]

Afternoon at the studio – really wanted to be there after so long away, but didn't know quite what to do with myself. matters arising: 1) What to do with things/studio projects that aren't finished? 2) What to do with […]

I can only describe how I have been feeling since Origin/Crafting Space ended yesterday as elated exhaustion. The weekend was a constant, intense flow of people, right up to the closing minute. The structure seemed to have absorbed so much […]