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I've just been invited by BBC Radio Norfolk to go into the studio on Friday afternoon for an interview about Festial's progress. This is likely to be the result of their having received the latest edition of Kalender (one of […]

Bargehouse Visit: 7th February 2008 I met Rita at the Bargehouse at about 12pm. We walked round and she talked through her initial plans for how she thinks it will all go together and where she will be placing the […]

One in four loners is bound to be an artist Why is it that one in four paintings works and the other two fall short? And why is it the un-planned sketch, the quick time-filler before you packed up for […]

AirSpace are looking for artist to submit works of all formats for this years Axis Festival. Following the success of last year's festival, the Axis team are looking to widen its programme of events by including a range of Contemporary […]

I’m on top of most of the dross, but there is still stuff I should have dealt with weeks ago. Like the telephone. The easiest access for BT was in my space. My intention was to extend the connection over […]

I’ve been working on an application for the British Antarctic Survey’s Artists & Writers programme. Of course I am proposing not to go and I’m not quite sure how they are going to take it. At the moment it’s a […]

I have just booked a flight to Galway and am off to see the show. Next Saturday I will be winging my way to Galway Arts Centre and a meeting with Rosie and Maeve Mulrennan, the gallery curator. I am […]

A fine downy layer of frost collected on me as I travelled to the studio this morning.My Dad had been in yesterday, working his magic, adapting the old drawing table to accommodate one of the canvases. Last week he made […]

PRINTMAKING – DAY 4 Back in the print workshop today I've been printing a plan of the allotment showing its "boundaries" and the layout of the beds and paths. Of course, anyone who knows allotments will realise that this is […]

09/02/08 Frosty and clear this morning. It looks unlikely that I will see any snow, flocculent or otherwise. Also I still don’t know what sastrugi are though I’m imagining some sort of corn snack. I woke this morning with a […]

TO SEE A PROJECT SPACE Roz & I travelled to Portsmouth & Southampton on Friday. We went to the Aspex Gallery for a 1-2-1 with Sarah Palmer to talk about our BMPD professional development project, then we went on to […]

I'm really flattered that Michael Petry has asked me to be one of the artists contributing to a forth coming project of his. The proposal sounds quite beautiful – an installation in a lighthouse on the Norwegian coast. We've been […]

My time-based works have utilized: a child’s bubble machine a music box mechanism, a cascade of buttons, celebratory candles and a puddle of ink, these signifiers have been imbued with a monumentality through careful framing, to elevate their status. In […]

There was such a lot going on in Paris. First the FIAC the counter part to The FREEZE ART FAIR and at the same time LES ELYSEÉS DE L’ART and ShowOff situated at Espace Pierre Cardin, which I guess is […]

I found the art scene in Paris more relaxed and friendly than in London and gallery owners are interested in talking to artists and to seeing their work.There are many areas with galleries in central Paris the most well know […]

I had an exhibition of some of the work that I had created the previous year during a Royal Rome Scholarship residency at Accademia di Danimarca (the Danish School at Rome) and held several artists discussion at my studio, which […]

The search for a writer has led to an interesting development that I'd not anticipated at the start of the project. I was thinking about how we see and how we put together an image of a place. As a […]

Until the last events connected with Papertrails have passed and my evaluation of the project both for ACE and for myself have been carried out I am continuing with this blog, however I keep finding things that don't fit into […]

08/02/08Last night I was late at the studio filming an iceberg being hauled up the stairs the plan is that this rather pointless endeavour will be glimpsed in another film of an explorer wandering around the gallery offices. Today started […]