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Monday 30th Caught up at last: Worked on starting the new website most of the day and also some admin. Played music till late last night/ early this morning as just couldn't sleep again. Have some important meetings this week […]

Annoyed with myself for not having really considered the sound in the installation. I realised this week that I couldn't have. I hadn't gathered enough material. With Paul agreeing to talk I have got the confidence and ideas to go […]

Found in a letter in the Guardian.A Jean-Luc Godard character may have defined cinema as "truth 24 times a second" but I like Frederic Raphael’s version.."Films are lies at 24 frames a second, and ditto when digital"

Hitchcock has said that during the silent era the great directors ‘had reached something near perfection’. The introduction of sound , in a way, jeopardised that perfection.’   ‘Whatever is said instead of being shown is lost on the viewer’ […]

tomorrow is the day i'll start working in the shop. in the meantimeprepared/finished dvds and spent a day watching great stuff of youtube – andrey tarkovsky on art… beautiful…

I spent yesterday hanging two pieces of work for Hunters & Collectors at The Gallery at Willesden Green. It’s been a long time since I put work into a gallery – my last show was in a garden shed. Five […]

Went to the park yesterday, sat down  and watched  the world go by. I’m sat there thinking about the stuff that I have made off the back of this.   But how does it relate back to what I seeing.  My […]

Saturday 28th Feel kind of empty today? Been working so hard recently its time for a rest. Do a few drawings on the computer, a small amount of writing then go for a walk. Watch some films later, just to […]

Sunday 29th Take a quiet day again and draw for a bit…. Sat in sun with some paper, a pen and some Korn on CD…… Themes arround blame intreage me. At school my 'deficiencies' steming from my un-diagnosed 'dyslexia' (well […]

It's a strange thing for an artist who feels drawn to performance and intervention to admit, but I do prefer to work in solitude. So imagine my discomfiture when I arrived at St Andrew's last Thursday armed with a carrier […]

Tomorrow I am giving a talk at Angel Row Gallery about setting up HMS. As I am naturally shy this may be a bigger ordeal for me than some. I haven’t got the answers to DIY studios – all I […]

Thursday 26th Late night last night so slow start today. Important meeting at 11 about a residency application. Work on an application illustration then walk into the university. Meet with the Dean of Technology about application. Goes really well and […]

Friday 27th Interesting day. Spend some of it with KG, fellow CIBAS creative champion. We sit, discuss, create and evolve ideas to-wards a collaborative project to do with her (fab) jewelery practice. (watch this space) Am able to help with […]

One of the ideas to structure the work we do on the allotment residency is Art School. I took a blackboard and chaiks to the preparation day on Monday. After changing into my mortar board and gown I wrote the […]

Taking the paintings off the stretchers and rolling them up. The Milchhof really came into its own with friendliness and helpfulness. First, big handsome burly bearded Mark asked the driver of the van going to the Köln Art fair, also […]