This is a record of my progress in 2008. I am looking forward to some exciting and challenging exhibitions and wanted to log the growth of my work and ideas throughout them. With lots to learn and many challenges ahead, […]
I have started this year looking towards my main focus, that of pushing my work as much as I can and becoming as seen by as wider a variety of people as I can, to gain a diversity of responses […]
Tether Studios and Bromley House, Nottingham
5-25 November 2007
Phil Rawle Graphic Designer 'Proposal for an empty window' was my response to being asked to produce some work to go in the AirSpace window between exhibitions in October 2007. The initial concept was to install a tree to fill […]
Monday 21st January The last two days I have been checking the equipment for the performance on Thursday. I’ve borrowed a mixer that will allow 8 students to play at once and for me to feed my loop pedal into […]
wood in the news I have been enjoying the coverage of the timber washed up on the sussex shore. There are some amazing pictures of it on the net. Waves of wood which look like tiny matchsticks. I wonder about […]
19/01/08 Rain all day today. The river has burst its banks it is wide and brown and fast flowing. I spent a lot of time filming a piece of polystyrene with a face drawn on it as it sped downstream. […]
All the glitches and problems of the preceeding week resolved themselves at the eleventh hour (literally in this case as the private view started at noon!) and everything went well. Lots of people came to the opening and it was […]
I am bit late with my update of this blog and I do apologies for that. Last week I was back in Valenciennes to finish the installation of the work and open the exhibition. It was a mad week with […]
The research visit to Milton Keynes last weekend provided me with plenty of material. There are lots of practicalities to deal with before beginning the process of painting.Last week I ordered paints, mediums and five 5ft x 5ft canvases. I […]
We installed the Allotment show in Long Eaton town hall on Friday. With help from Stella, Phil as well as Isabel from the Council we managed to sort it out relatively quickly (given the constraints of the space which is […]
The British Library, London
17 January – 30 April 2008
18/01/08 In the morning I go shopping. I arrive back at the studio with: a towel, some paper and pencils, polystyrene balls (I accept now that I have a problem), a polar bear and a clear plastic box. I’m really […]
sat 19th Jan- we've all been at the shop all day. juggled kids etc and all managed to get loads done. we started this project with a "hey, yes, let's run some workshops!" and the full horror of what we […]
loads more happened today. will add tomorrow and some more photos. We all messed about, took some silly photos and are going to try and get in the local paper next week. having an informal open day on friday. the […]
Three artists setting up a community arts project in Hastings, East Sussex. We have a centre, with a gallery shop and two workshops. We will run classes, rent space out, sell local artists work, run outside events, whilst trying to […]
17/01/08 Word keeps ‘unexpectedly quitting’ actually now I’m kind of expecting it. My brain feels similar, I spent most of today staring at the stuff I’ve done and wondering what to do with it. All of the bits work ok […]
Friday 18th January I finished the speaker today, with a strip of old cork tile around the edge, much like a 70s synth! I filmed a short demonstration of the differences caused by the various glasses; it also looks a […]
Its been ages since I had time to write an entry. There hasn'tbeen time to reflect on progress (or the lack of it). I can't remember an exhibition that has been such hard work to sort out. Partly, I suppose […]
Where to start? That's how my head feels most of the time now! In November, a friend of mine, who I had planned a couple of projects with, said that she wanted to introduce me to someone who seemed to […]
