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 […]
BA Fine art – third year.
Rachel Gadsden, 'Whispers from the Past', Mixed media on Canvas (detail), 10/09. Photo: Rachel Gadsden. Courtesy: Historic Royal Palaces. Henry VIII 1509-2009
Canvas with ships, portraits, narrative about Henry VIII reign
Rachel Gadsden, 'Whispers from the Past', Mixed media on Canvas (detail), 10/09. Photo: Rachel Gadsden. Courtesy: Historic Royal Palaces. Mixed Media on Canvas depicting narrative relating to Henry VIII Reign 1509 - 2009
Natalia Skobeeva, 'timeless', photography, 2008. Photo: Natalia Skobeeva. Courtesy: Natalia Skobeeva. image by Natalia Skobeeva, series Timeless