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Listening to the Invigilator:Digbeth discussion I was struck by oblique and direct references to boredom – the gallery invigilators job being referred to as sometimes boring. When transposed to an outside space where the invigilator has to stand or sit […]

Arts Council England south east, news issue no. 16 arrived yesterday…the RFO's (regularly funded organisations) have all won the lottery. Thousands and hundreds of thousands of pounds given away. Over £43 million pounds over three years for the south east. […]

. The Ghostly Videotape In 1990, when the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby was released on videotape, people began to notice for the first time a "ghost" image, apparently of a young boy, in the background of one […]

Mark Seltzer Serial Killers 1998 Mark Seltzer makes frequent reference to the uncanny in his 1998 book Serial Killers. Here are some excerpts: There is something uncanny about how these killers are so much alike, living composites, how easily they […]

H. G. Wells The Invisible Man H. G. Wells creates uncanny effects with his descriptions of the title character's appearance. Heavily disguised, and often lurking in darkness, Wells' invention is a forerunner to the masked villains of 1970s-90s horror movies […]

Off to Berlin tomorrow! It's an awful admission but I haven't been before. Going to the studio this afternoon. We were broken into last week and it's the first time I'll have been since then. Rupert has been and fitted […]

TALK ABOUT THE WORK We had a meeting to start planning our talk for Talk About the Work at Claremont Studios, Hastings later in April. We will focus on our collaborative partnership in Breaking Ground and see if we can […]

My wishing and hoping is working! I can not believe how kind people can be….in todays post I have received a booklet, past and present of Duffield, a map and letter of best wishes from another of my Filmgoers addresses. […]

6 frames made, nothing to go in them….

BBC request 500 words on project update to tie in with the news item that we have been given a £5,000 Welsh Heritage Lottery grant.

Today the spaces we have been allocated for the degree show have been announced on the noticeboard. I haven't succeeded in securing the space I ideally wanted, and have spent some time today trying to figure out how I can […]

I posted my proposal to 'Fred' in Cumbria and am quite pleased with myself… A light anticlimax took grip of me around 4pm but I beat it down with a swift panini followed by New York cheesecake.. Tonight I will […]

HAHA.. How silly. I've only just realised that I didn't publish my blog even though I had published the post. woops.. anyway you should be able to read them now… Quick update. Its 3.16am and I was working in the […]

Nikki and I are now independently considering all that happened and was collected during INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH. We have a vast amount of material. The audio of the workshop is being listened to over and over again by Nikki who […]

My question to you is At what point do you tell your parents that you've made a video of yourself sewing your fingers together for the 'sake of your art' and that you plan on gluing your eyes with eyelash […]

It has been quite a week of sitting bowed over applications. I do wonder why the anticipation of forms is always so completely different to the actual experience of them. I tend to quite enjoy myself once I get going. […]

Project: Drawing room intervention with Rick Creed at the Tate Liverpool next week. 9.30am-12 and 1pm-4.30 come along… contrast between life model, long poses and the resulting marks with short, sometimes flowing movement between postures you (VERY) rarely get a […]