After 4 months of trying to find the right contact in order to realise the Project, I finally received a call out of the blue from the Parks and Countryside department, only to have their officer say he wouldn’t veto […]
Dahab – the power of images Following my visit to Egypt I decided to check out YouTube. I wish I hadn’t. There were some very disconcerting videos of divers dead at the bottom of the Red Sea: one of a […]
The Tramway: Curatorial pseudo-intellectual artspeak! It’s good to see Ian Gale, Scotland’s top art critic , tackling some of the obtuse art writing in exhibition guides. Take this from the current exhibition at the Tramway in Glasgow of Katie Dove […]
"The Children of Craig-y-nos” My online book is taking up most of my time. It’s proving to be challenging as well as interactive (over 70 people have contacted me), intergenerational ( grandparents are getting their grandchildren to help them with […]
Working with these unfamiliar paints is a problem because the colours mix differently. Again I didn't get the yellow that I imagined I'd bought. It means that I will have to do a lot of experimentation and buy whole ranges […]
The opening reception for the Drawing Exhibition at the Blütenweiss Galerie begins at seven. I get there a bit late so that it is completely packed. My work is well hung and can be seen directly one enters the gallery. […]
April 15th This is nerve wracking. Tomorrow I start the residency and who knows what will come out of it. I have never before worked in a public space and I know not what I will see, nor how I […]
Today was very cold. I was working at Cardinal Newman School on an Art / Environmental day with Simon James, the Elmbridge Countryside Liaison Officer. Plans for the day had to be slightly altered to allow for the fact that […]
working for money takes up my time… but it has to be done :) i'm teaching at the university of westminster on BA graphic information design. besides working on my installation, i'm trying to develop strategy for teaching software in […]
I’d like to share some musings on 'nostalgia' I just had with a friend of mind Ansuman Biswas, who is currently in India, on a an Arts Council England Research Placement at HP Labs, India. His blog is http://diffractionbangalore.blogspot.com/ Hi […]
Last Friday I proofed, then etched again the two plates I am working on. I had been really pleased with the results, and drew further onto the plate with marker pens, before placing them in the Saline Copper Sulphate solution. […]
Last Friday I proofed, then etched again the two plates I am working on. I had been really pleased with the results, and drew further onto the plate with marker pens, before placing them in the Saline Copper Sulphate solution. […]
I realise, as I consider this project, that I will come face to face with aspects of my past, and remnants from my heritage. My grandfather, Samuel Lea, worked very successfully in the Potteries, in Hanley, Stoke on Trent, for […]
This one is going to be a long one as I try and catch up… Arrived to Zagreb, Croatia on Thursday afternoon, after an amusing flight where I sat next to two! Pilots who usually fly for Pakistan Airways, this […]
today, so far, I’ve been working on the portrait of helen. the first couple of hours where very frustrating, but it definately looks better than it did. I’ll work on Kate this evening. the timetable i had set for myself […]
found this quote. its exactly what my degree show is about! (although i was planning on having four portraits and four skull paintings, as we are given enough room for this number)… ‘The legend of the three living and the […]
worked on both paintings today. realised that the mouth on helens is actually in the wrong place. just pleaseed to have found out what was wrong with it! i’ve scrubbed the mouth out and will put it back in tommorow, […]
Another day of doing battle with recalcitrant pigments and paint that has seeped under the tapes, but with a confidently light heart, knowing that eventually I would make them come right and the process would be inbuilt into these paintings. […]
In some indefinable way this week has been extremely busy. Yet I can't work out what I have been so busy doing. I suppose it's one of those periods when you do a little of many things rather a great […]
I went to London today to visit The Princes Drawing School during it’s Open Day. Also went to the Jerwood Space where I saw the work of Williams-Suggitt, another collaborative duo who are new to me. In their video piece, […]
"Kill your little darlings!" Fat chance! I gave the rough edit of the video I had agreed ( reluctantly) to make for a friends exhibition in France a week ago and suggested she reduce it by at least five minutes. […]
Starting to mix up the paint for the first coat of the colour layer on the painting, I realised to my dismay that I had bought the wrong colour. There had been a German word underneath Kobaltblau that I ignored. […]
Thought I'd write a bit of a background to the project. The whole idea for it came whilst I was filming for my other project Radionica. One of the women I filmed said that her mother travelled “all the way” […]
worked on both paintings today. the one of kate is going quite well, but the one of helen has caused much frustration. it just isnt looking like her today.i guess portraits go through stages, in fact i know they do, […]
Tramway
2 February 2007 to 2 February 2007
