Dream Diary 1, The Cobra: I am faced by a cobra. It is exquisitely beautiful. It attacks my face, biting me again and again, aiming in particular for my cheeks. I raise my hands and squint my eyes to defend […]
Dream Diary 2, Blue Heron: I am overwhelmed by the arrival of a Blue Heron; its presence is majestic, awesome. This is one of those rare moments in dreams where I become suddenly sentient, aware that I am dreaming and […]
We have spent a day each interviewing our collaborator about their work.I started by showing Judith the framed pictures I have up on my walls – a safe place to keep them – and gave her a pile of black […]
I’VE FINISHED!!!!! put the wooden beading on the bottom of my space today, so that’s everything done. the opening night is this saturday. so excited! it should be a really good show this year, i’ve had a quick look round […]
This was the first time I've been to Ackerstrasse which is surprising as it is just one street over parallel to Kastienallee that I go up and down all the time. It is funny how one sticks to the known […]
To me its a bit of an irony that in the month when my blog might receive more attention than usual because it was in printed form in a-n, nothing much seems to be happening in my project. This isn't […]
boxing hardware on my mind… tomorrow i'm goint to cybersonica@kinetica to see julie freeman's work i.e. concrete/rubber boxes… cant stop thinking about them since i heard about them…otherwise, made video simulation… and thinking how to insure good qualty sound during […]
big news – building will not be demolished till the end of 2008… i wonder if my installation helped make this defferal… in the mean time: Open End (open studios at Morning Lane) May 18th-20th, 2007Private View: Friday May 18th, […]
Since November 2006, Arts Council England has been asking all across the land to add their views on the public value of the arts.
I'm already feeling nostalgia for Berlin. When I went into the Kunstler Magazin for yet more paint, I thought ‘oh in a month I'll not be here coming to this convenient art shop with the nice auburn haired girl. I […]
ok, I am going to cut out the laboured optimism… Here it is, straight and honest: …now I feel refreshed and human again (after a bath and short rest). But I don’t think that I did a very god job […]
A post from sunny Eigg! Just 50p in the ‘honesty plastic cup’ gets me 30 minutes on the internet. No electricity at the cottage, but the generator here at the cafe makes it possible to keep in touch with the […]
Well finally arrived back in the UK! The last week in India went really quickly and much of my time was spent cramming in last minute trips and working out what I could bring back with me to England, 20kg […]
remembered my camera today! unfortunately the battery went after the first few pictures so i’ll take the rest tommmow. today i re-measured the skull placements, then put them on, put up my labels and biseness cards, re -painted the sky […]
Manfred came with his ladder to change the anteroom light bulb that blew a week ago. Now they have all been changed nothing more should need doing. The problem here is the twenty-foot ceiling so that I can't do it […]
Still setting up, it’s all taking longer… Why does that seem familiar..?So here I am in the cathedral cafe and I am impressed that they have wireless broadband. However I better get back to trying to finish the settingup. One […]
Out of Space For the last few weeks the derelect AirSpace building has been swarming with the un-dead, we have been hosts for the filming of Out of Space a Zombie film with a difference. Here's what it's all about: […]
Postcard from Berlin 3: Last weekend I went to an opening at MEINBLAU www.meinblau.de This is a split-level gallery space in a complex that also houses 14 studios. The studio programme includes early career as well as established artists, international […]
A week ago I visited ICIA – Institute of Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts at the University of Bath where I have been offered me a solo show, with Clothes for Death project, starting in September this year. The exhibition will open […]
…something odd is happening with this blog, I can't edit the last post or add images, let's see if I'm luckier with this one… A week ago I visited ICIA – Institute of Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts at the University of […]
well, i would put up more photos but i, erm, forgot my camera this morning. d’oh!!! anyway, today i re streched the skull pictures as they where sagging in the middle, then painted all the outside edges on all the […]
The 52nd Venice Bienniale that launches in June combines exhibitions of significant visual art from international artists with passeggiata and associated networking opportunities on the grandest scale for the throng of curators and artists who will assemble there. The main […]
It's been quite a week.. I tested the projectors (4 are great but one has a speeding issue.. It likes to run through the film at 100mph, which isn't quite what I had in mind..), then finally cut my film […]
I feel amazingly priviledged to be able to just devote weeks to making work, to being given such generous access to the cathedral, to being welcomed by all kinds of individuals along the way. I feel enormously lucky. The work […]
Thursdays envelope stuffing was fine and went quicker than I had expected fueled by homemade apple cake and coffee at Surrey Arts. Thanks everyone! On the way home though I got soaked to the skin (ironic for an art project […]