The installation is in place and the Preview is over. It went quite well – better than this blog is going! After the last blog – now weeks old Krys and I met to make further plans about the show. […]
11/03/08 Today I visited The Exchange Emporium, a shop on the Woodbridge road in Ipswich. The place is so full of stuff that entry is impossible. An enormous spoil pile of tools presses against one window and all manner of […]
This week; the concept of Gratitude and Gifts begin to mirror themselves in my daily experience. 1. My friend Adrienne Campbell, an inspired eco-activist and writer who also lives here in Lewes, introduced me to The 'Work That Reconnects' of […]
Introduction to Artists’ strategies and self-management
Toynbee Studios, London
8 – 9 March 2008
In the meantime, I have been to St. Margaret’s Bay and have done further research. This left me with a lot of thoughts and material which I find hard to make sense of at the moment. Hence, I will just […]
Day two: This was a very long and full day. I think that I might have done about six hours of recording, that is interviewing and talking to people. I should add that Christine has been really brilliant and had […]
and today is a bit strange. this morning i was all good and ready to do the tasks on my to do list. but all my hand kept doing was pressing snooze on my alarm. and when i did eventually […]
Continuation of Day two: Next I went on to meet Alistair Gould’s mother Pauline. She provided excellent background information on the beginnings of the gardens. Just one thing out of that: before the gardens were bought, there was a small […]
Day three: In the morning, I met Linda Winter whom I had met at the aquarelle class. She is a neighbour and her garden borders onto Pines Garden. All in all, she was very positive about Pines Garden and niggles […]
January and February saw my time in Coventry step up. With the usual monthly installment to the exhibition plus more workshops and more nights in the Brittania Hotel. The workshops were challenging with three outreach days with people from the […]
I cleared some boxes of junk from my in-laws garage yesterday.. old school books mainly. At the bottom of one box I found the first knitted sculpture I ever made, during my degree. I had an appalling relationship with my […]
Meet the baby jesus. He began life as a girl, purchased from a charity shop in the south side of glasgow. His sex change constituted of having his hair chopped off. His body was already of pin cushion consistency, which […]
Here is Hugh. Hugh is a Ken doll who has been elevated to hermaphrodite status courtesy of my friend and peer Kaye Harper, who dotingly knitted him a bikini featuring both male and female reproductive systems. He wares a 'guilty' […]
Now for Tiffany. Tiffany is a manikin who was left in my studio in 3rd year, became my friend when I painted on her hair and make-up, was given to my friend Brooke who later moved in with me, and […]
Meet David. The great work of Michaelangelo reduced to jigsaw postcard. Unfortunately this was not the end of his troubles, as I have further mutilated him by swapping certain pieces I have appropriated sentiment to for the occasion. The occasion […]
It seems like a long time till the open studio but I have so little time between my job and the kids I really have to get going now. I have not yet said much about the Artist Open Studio […]
Just been discussing next years graduate residency with the ADO from Erewash Council. The pot which funded Polly's space has diminished, but apparently this doesn't mean the money can't come from another purse. Also there are a few hoops to […]
I feel inspired to get involved in education projects again. Last week I attended the enquire/envision seminar in Eastbourne. The discussions and presentations interested me, particularly the emphasis placed on contemporary art projects and the creative input of artists. It […]
Finding things I found a tray in a charity shop constructed from a marquetry design. It was too nice to not buy and someone had clearly spent a lot of time on it. I am finding that time is something […]
