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Wow a couple of weeks slip by so quickly and what have I done….well I have just been concentrating on the snail theme, with as I have said before getting a coherent body of work together to present. I was […]

Having drunk some drinks and rued the fact that landscape painting doesn't 'function as function as therapy', I have indulged my fascination in the flat-garden, sarbonunker and perhaps, HENK. Although HENK, as always, is a risk. Unless of course accompanied […]

Today has been dedicated to packing and making an inventory of works for the show. At this point I have more or less decided the pieces I will exhibit next April and I have been forced to reject a number […]

..life's sections.. … yesterday I read a photographer's interview in which he pointed out that only 20% of his time is spent taking photographs, the rest on administration and research… Well. it is much the same with making art work. […]

I've been keeping a blog on other sites since last semester, which is why I've been able to copy the best bits across on here. There's a lot I obviously haven't included, including a trip to New York to visit […]

No work done today for my degree show. I sorted out the final details with my Friend Vitor for the Postcard show at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. The Preview was this evening 5-7pm and was an absolute success. We […]

New paintings… exploring the fantasy land of the familiar, the irony of art as artifice, in order to critique the position of the fantasized gaze…

I really got stuck into the mosaic map today. The ironic thing is I have a couple of tasks that I have to do tommorrow, one is called 'some modest sketches'. It is not often I feel so keen about […]

Sailing from the Hamble was wonderful…a westerly force five with beautiful ever-changing views. The 'Blue Lady', a 34' Hallberg Rassey gave us an incredible unique experience. Mass in medieval Domfront, Lower Normandy on Good Friday and Easter Sunday…then to Chantilly […]

"The imaginary was the alibi of the real, in a world dominated by the reality principle. And, paradoxically, it is the real that has become our true utopia – but a utopia that is no longer in the realm of […]

I wanted to know what other people thought of these images, whether it comes across as some kind of Pop Art (Warhol) or some obsessive fan, because that is not what this work is about. I didn't receive enough feedback […]

I was writing in my dissertation a reference to the window, or "mirror" in Take On Me" where the girl has already gone into the comic book realm, but still appears as real…. in the precession of the simulacrum, she […]

For taking part in Magne Furuholmen's Scrabble exhibition (also known as "Mange Magne") May – Autumn 2007 the artist has been bestowed with a personally signed letter from Mags in gratitude for the contribution, and also a limited edition CD […]

The Cabinet of Curiosities I am taking part in curating an exhibition with a group of talented artists at the Greestone Gallery. This includes a retrospective piece: Perfectus Pupae et Hominis Cicatricosus (Latin: Perfect Dolls and Scarred Human Beings) 2005 […]

Yesterday I dreamed myself alive again….. typical. Many images are being appropriated to re-create a comic book narrative in this way. Recent images of the band members of A-ha are made to look as if part of the original comic […]

I have conducted a mini curatorial project to see how my final show will work. It's not easy considering that I have a lot of work to do for my comic book and I'm still not getting enough time to […]

I'm back but slightly after I expected I would be. The last two weeks have been rather busy as excitingly I have found a studio space (in a new artists co-operative) in which to work. So life post degree is […]

This is the working front cover for the comic book. An opportunity has arisen for a potential exhibition as a separate body of work, so I've been busy making a proposal for the interest of Magne Furuholmen and Paul Stolper […]

27/03/08 Wet weather soon cleared to warm sunshine. I’m so aware of the end now that I am finding it difficult to write. I have spent time faffing about and thinking about packing things away. I did take a leap […]

There is one room in the shop that is niggling us. I couldn't sleep last night for ideas bursting into my head about how to tackle it, that and the conversations I'd had throughout the day kept me buzzing. I […]

Today was an interesting day and was a great experience. As part of fundraising for our final degree show catalogue the University of Derby has an agreement with Derby Museum and Art Gallery to allow us 3rd year students to […]

As part of the degree we have a module called "Career in Practice" This module consists of us creating a file about professional practice taken from research and notes from lectures and talks from visiting artists. Another major part of […]