10/9 – I’m very conscious that I’ve scarcely mentioned the fourth artist of the Khoj residency, Rohini Devasher. She makes menacingly beautiful, dense, photoshop compositions of outlandish hybrid plants, operating on the border between chaos and order. As a Delhi […]
11/9 – The weekend in Kashmir began with an unforgettable ride to the airport, and to Ashok’s many fine qualities I must now add ruthlessness and creativity. Sitting in the back seat was like watching gladiatorial combat, as he sliced, […]
Last night we were out at Bei Gao, which is about a half hour cab ride towards the airport from the more centrally located Tuanjiehu, where we’re living. Brian Wallace, Director of the Red Gate operation, including the residency, was […]
Just heard that The Wellcome Trust will not fund a print on demand book because the project is halfway through and I have had money from the Heritage Lottery Fund. So its back to square one looking for funding for […]
The fire officer recommended fire exit signs over the doors, the sort which are wired up to the electrics This is necessary if we are to use the studios at night. As the electricians are already here I asked for […]
The Curse of Coram The Portrait is framed, wrapped in a blanket and awaiting collection whenever that will be. I’m going up to London on Monday to make a film with or without trustees and to top off a […]
OUTSIDE BATHROOM Judith’s thoughts about bringing the inside outside made me realise we have 3 baths on the allotment, only one with taps. I went up to take a closer look at them. They are used as water butts now. […]
Rosie has received my proposal for the February show. She is happy so I send it off to the gallery curator. The proposal contains a couple of ideas, well, three to be more precise so I am hoping the gallery […]
Having completely over-loaded myself with heavyweight research / reading and with a week to go before enrollment on the MA, I have finally got round to instigating some new work! As an antidote to my current pre-occupation with serious philisophical […]
Here’s a sampling from recent images of t-shirts: Passion Island/Dreamland; Rugby Hard D&G Real Stuff Rough Tough: Let the Gardens Heal Your Soul. I learned today that in the early 1990s it was fashionable here to wear t-shirts that said […]
Returned to Scotland to find more phone messages, and another surge of emails all relating to the exhibition.It has opened up a deluge of repressed memories…And still the photos come rolling in.On a more practical note have got to sort […]
Chris Brown, Reviews Editor for a-n Magazine, talks to a selection of writers about the practice and pitfalls of taking up the pen.
If Andrew Bryant is “trying to figure out what kind of artist I am”, what is his role as a teacher? His blog seemed to show what I consider is ‘wrong’ with so-called conceptual art of the recent (ie Saatchi) […]
Corrections from the September issue of a-n Magazine.
Just a quick note to say well done on developing such an easy to use, and very useful tool. Congratulations! I’m delighted to say that after using four years of self-employed accounts to work out the figures for each of […]
I have recently visited the MA show at Wimbledon where I am going to start (in the sculpture area) in a few weeks. Their end of year show incorporates all specialisms (sculpture, drawing, VLP etc..) and so I was looking […]
With the time we’ve set aside for the allotment residency drawing nearer, the issue of a shelter has grown more urgent. Out of the blue I received a call from Simon Barker, an architect based in Eastbourne, offering to join […]
It was my turn for a crit at our artists’ group meeting yesterday afternoon, and I decided to pass around past issues of Kalender for comment. Some interesting feedback, and all in all quite encouraging. So, I’m feeling a bit […]
Its in the postFar from being one of those excuses you hear when people are late with a delivery or payment, today this statement means that I have cleared some of the backlog of paperwork, completed my Galway proposal and […]
Bicycles and tricylces haul all kinds of things: furniture, collected material for recycling, loads of market produce, as well as getting people from a to b. There are bike lanes on many streets and mobile bike repair stops to repair […]
I used my new card for the first time today. The first woman I requested flatly said no and seemed mildly annoyed that I had approached her. I realized that I may be bothering people, both as a foreigner unable […]
To give a small idea of the installation – some video stills of the dvd loops:
Nettie Horn Gallery
8 August 2007 to 8 August 2007
David Risley Gallery
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington
21 September – 10 November 2007
