… they were shooting a scene for a TV series in the building where I have my office/ studio the other evening – rain machines and full on lighting all over the place. As I left the building and passed […]
Important reminder to self: must remember that important art meetings start at 5.30pm even if that is a rather impossible time for anyone to attend who works until exactly 5.30pm… I was too sure that just nobody would schedule a […]
I have been carrying around Lesley Millar’s Textile Routes, it is such a rich text : ‘I have been told that for most people in the Middle East a piece of material is everything. It is what you carry with […]
this started as a postcard!
I am in my final year of my Fine Art degree course at Northumbria. We have 60 students in our year all working in various mediums; paint, print, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, video. As a year group we have all […]
A short doc video about the project, podcast on "Building Design" – http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=763&storycode=3107309&c=1
The Guardian Environment has podcast a short version of the documentary of Newspaper House, directed by Gillian McIver, with Christna Zaris & Rozy Sarkis. See it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/mar/10/recycling
tens of thousands of papers, each individually rolled, to form a house. What no one expected was that it would be a valid if somewhat time consuming method of building a strong, warm structure. While it is foremost an art […]
The ideas that kept coming were about love, protection, nurturing, and i thought of my family, myself and what had happened to each of our outlooks on the world. From the Festival of Britain through Protect and Survive to the […]
I chatted to one of the Other Mothers in the playground this morning. She asked what I’ve been up to and I told her I’m making a film for a show at Scarborough Art Gallery Coffee Lounge. She said; ‘but […]
I was wondering how other students were going about publicizing their degree show, if you have any hints or good opportunities in advertising in certain magazines, websites or newspapers.
Not much has happened this week. We get the keys – fingers crossed – to number 2 cheapside next week. Meantime I have been having fun with the piece thats going in on the ground floor. I was getting cross […]
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 […]
