Some time ago, during November, I tried making some prints at home, first making monoprints on a gelatin plate, then small screenprints. I had all the necessary tools and materials in a cupboard. The amazing thing was that it was […]
Now you know I love to work to music and with music… but some days are best served silent. Yesterday and today are such days. I used to say to students “trust the process, something will happen to make a […]
‘Keep faith in love, friendship and democracy & never surrender your human light to the darkness of demagogues.’ The above quote was taken from a new year’s tweet by the late Harry Leslie Smith, an activist for the poor and […]
Some fresh tasty vegetables [talent], a dash of hot sauce [ideas], knob of butter [agency], a glug of ageing wine [experience], a crumble of stock [collaboration]? Then there is the cooking … time, space and don’t get me started on […]
These days I mainly work small: restrictions of having to work in a chemo chair; working at home when the weather is miserable and I don’t want to risk catching a cold… But as well as these practical reasons working […]
Blueberry tea conversations.
10 years ago. Still on with Blah Blah Blah. Installation at South Square Centre, Thornton, January 2010.
Flask conversations…
I making a contribution to FLASK publication inviting people for conversations with their flask of favourite beverage. Conversations about flasks, art, life, etc. If you’re up for a chat (Huddersfield/surrounding areas) get in touch!
Dwell Time picked up the keys to 9 Market Avenue in Huddersfield today. This will be Dwell Time Central and a base for us to run the project from. Plans are still in progress but dialogue will feature large…
Talking rubbish… I borrowed The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter by Susan Signe from the library and a previous reader had pencilled in a kind of index or glossary of terms into the back pages.
I met with a friend for a coffee and in the aftermath of the elections and doom and gloom of more austerity, he showed me this book he’s reading. Published in 1941, Orwellian dystopia is now.
The science of analyzing conversations, second by second | Elizabeth Stokoe | TEDxBermuda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOG5PK8xDA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR201x6O4mHhX23FlZn4242cCK2bwzg12b8bIrsX49Kd6ov23EIWAUcSelU Analysing the silences seems a big part of it. Intonation also but silences speak volumes.
So here are my last chemo day drawings of 2019: a delay in delivering the drugs as they have to be prepped on the day and the driver was 2 hours late means I had time to do 3 as […]
an ongoing project supported by the ‘a-n Bursary 2019’
the year ahead will have many challenges – known and unknown and this morning standing in the garden just after 9am i felt at one with the knowledge of the main challenges i’ll face this year. already solved – the […]
keeping an annual blog has become a thing for me now. this year i’m interested in what the twelve in twenty might be.
The award validated my work, giving me a huge boost of confidence! My Instagram posts attracted support from other artists and the award ‘opened doors’ when I contacted galleries and my mentors. My time in the Netherlands was brilliant. Away […]
What kind of year has 2019 been for you? It has been a bit of a roller-coaster year! For the most it has been positive and moving upward but there have certainly also been some scary and sudden drops too. […]
