The studios are in much better shape than my house. This week Roger and Gary peeled back our roof to reveal the problems with a dormer which has caused leaks since we moved a year ago. At the same time […]
Now that the Crafts Council commission is under way and living in my other blog,( Origin Interactive; Crafting Space), I can think about the threads of my R+D which need some focus. Realistically, most of my child free time is […]
How do you judge whether an exhibition is successful? Well, one criteria is to look at the Visitors Book. How many people have signed it? In less than a week over 100 people have written in the one for the […]
Nothing much, I ground to a halt wondered about carrying on then had a good experimental printing session. The studio is full of unfinished work and prints all over the place and funnily enough its starting to look like it […]
As a follow-up to this 'Papertrails' project I have been asked to make two further installations of the 'Storytrees', one using some of the as yet unused stories contributed by local people as a trail through the Elmbridge woods and […]
I have been having a busy few days. I have been working on some pieces related to my last project, 'Papertrails', more of that on my other blog but I have also been taking advantage of the end of my […]
DISCUSSION EVENT – TUESDAY 8 JULY This was a busy day, getting the work in position, ready for our Consultation Meeting with Frances Lord in the morning. Scurrying to Sainsbury's to buy the wine for the evening. Quick 10 mins […]
I continue to download an image everyday from the British Antarctic Survey sit, trace it and upload a copy to my blog www.notantarctic.blogspot.com where they remain largely unlooked at. I am really beginning to enjoy the futility of the whole […]
Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
26 June – 23 July 2008
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
21 June – 7 July 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
14 February – 6 April 2008
Being involved to some extent in the planning of the installation I am intrigued by what seemed at first to be a simple miscalculation in the amount of time scheduled for the work to be put up. Making the usual […]
I haven’t updated for a while, mainly because installing the exhibition took up nearly all the waking hours that I had. But I have been making notes and half finishing some posts – So now that the exhibition is open, […]
Forget-me-knots in a Sea of Stitches A quilt with supporting artworks, May 2008 By Kirstie Nichols This project involves a quilt, a great deal of patience and a needle and thread: July 2007 saw the first stitch of this hand-made […]
Brilliant! – I’ve just had the dates confirmed for a show in Norway. So long as I can get everything together before I go on holiday I’ll still have time for a dry run in the studio before I make […]
