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Thursday 13th June Notes on our chat… Space possibilities: West end arcade: good big window… idea of performance behind a shop front. Lockable door- sense of own world and locking up equipment. Space near Squeak… Silversmiths the Jewellers. it will […]

How can I sum up my experience? It was huge and with so many intense layers. I am going to have to think about it. The work. A lot of serious work got done and deeply explored. I was completely […]

It was my neice's 1st birthday this weekend. There have been a couple of occasions in the past year – and perhaps even a few months before that – when I've found myself thinking that now I'm an uncle I'd […]

Big Boulders & Dykes I've been trying to write letters to people I should contact – its not going well… I think I have some sort of blockage… My preparations for Bedford are sporadic and as yet unformed. I have […]

Sarah Stamp This week I haven't been doing much pertaining to the project as I have been preparing to go to Brussels and do something I proposed what seems like forever ago. It is quite difficult knowing we can't use […]

I went to visit a Museum in Belgium, not far from Valenciennes about 30 min by car. It was called Musee des Arts Contemporains in Site du Grand-Hornu. I was taken by the architecture of the place, an amazing space, […]

Performa 07 launched last nigth with a one night only performance of Francesco Vezzoli's adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's 1917 play 'Right you are if you think you are' at the solomon guggenheim museum. It was vezzoli's first ever live performance […]

I've had some work selected for TULCA, a city wide festival in Galway Ireland. Last week we (my husband Paul and I) had fun packaging up four neon pieces and transporting them gingerly to Art Moves in London where after […]

Nicola Smith Today I have tested out the painted text on the double doors in the space, in the back of my mind knowing that the exhibition could all fall through. The red paint really stood out and is perfectly […]

Anna Puhakka This past week I have been working on a sculpture, which incorporates a game to its underside and mirrors. I have also been using plastic balls to create miniature army formations. I am particularly enjoying the photographs of […]

We have finally arrived in New York! Rebecca got here on Thursday 24th October, but Rachel and I decided to travel into JFK on a Friday afternoon, so that we could have the pleasure of even longer queues than normal. […]

yes. NY appartment was real afterall, thankgod. and mary and rebecca have met up to go over the workshop materials. the writers workshop is now called 'Writers Hub' as part of the writing live, performa programme. here is the press […]

here is the blurb for our critical writing workshop, Writers Hub: …………………………………………………………………………….. WRITING LIVE: WRITERS HUB FEATURED AS PART OFPERFORMA 07, THE SECOND EDITION OF THE BIENNIALOF NEW VISUAL ART PERFORMANCETO BE HELD IN NEW YORK CITYOCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER […]

The core of this project has been about observation, more specifically observation aided by drawing. Somehow drawing makes you look more closely. The eye flicks repeatedly from the pen to the subject, but these are not casual glances they’re analytical […]

I have been back at TVU for a month now, returning from a three week driving holiday in Spain straight into lectures. Knowing the staff already is a big boon, and key changes have made a difference to the atmosphere. […]

Cathy and Garry made a great find the other day. Through serendipity they discovered an artists’ 'village’ of 2000 out to the east of Beijing [Bei Gao and Caochangdi are to the north east]. There was also a huge exhibition […]

A few final thoughts This is going to be my last post on this blog. Thanks to everyone who has made my residency here possible, in particular Brian Wallace, Red Gate’s director. Thanks Brian, it has been a great experience. […]

I am having a much more productive day today. I’ve cleaned the last tripe skin and they are all in the alum mix now soaking and preserving, (fingers cross) I had a meeting ad last with a manufacturer about a […]