This blog charts my 2019 a-n Bursary trip in The UK looking at Automata models and movements, and learning new wire skills. It’s a physical journey, but also a time of movement and change after illness and travelling towards a new artistic practice.
Last night at Art Lab at Dean Clough I presented a very brief overview of my current interests in dialogue, briefly tracing previous practice development to this point. I then opened the conversation out to the group and invited input […]
Arts Council England has published its draft strategy for 2020-2030 and is inviting responses from individuals and organisations through an online consultation and series of workshops across England.
June 2019 marked the 9th incarnation of Perfume as Practice, which was staged at Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton. The exhibition comprised of 12 perfume portraits and 5 paintings, themed under the idea of protest. The exhibition also represented a milestone for […]
Currently rendering what I hope is the final version of the film. The editing software seems to have a mind of its own and despite my best efforts to name all versions properly I still struggle each time I open […]
Has anyone used a FOME School Etching Press (31 cm width roller, total weight 8.5K), as supplied by Jackson Art Supplies? How are the results? Is this press good value or is it worth saving for a heavier one?
arriving into this beautiful studio at Dance 4 iC4C [international Centre for Choreography] in Nottingham for my 2 week residency allowing the three starting points / working concepts tilt, rhythm and back to circulate around and bounce off each other thinking they […]
This year’s residency is for the whole eight weeks of the dig. I am now thoroughly integrated into the workforce as an artist, and the archaeologists know what I’m trying to achieve. My aim for this season is to continue […]
Over many years I’ve been considering through my practice what part art can play in contributing to positive social change. Alongside this question, I have also been asking what forms activism takes. Traditionally activism is outward, energetic. At the public […]
Tonight is the July edition of Art Lab! I’ve so far shied away from putting myself on the bill but I thought I’d like to have a group disucssion about dialogue-as-subject in arts practice after the two other presenters and […]
On Friday night I performed a brand new piece recycling old ideas/work in a mash up with new ideas about dialogue. I usually prefer scripted public presentations/performances as I struggle with nerves on stage but this one was a bit […]
This week’s recommended shows include a major festival of international sculpture across four venues in Yorkshire, an exhibition in Manchester of work by 17 artists inspired by a 1932 mass trespass, and in London a powerful painting show by three generation-spanning black female artists.
Listened to final installment of Derek Jarman‘s Modern Nature – Radio 4’s book of the (last) week. I was struck by how it ‘just ended’ – no conclusion, no resolution, no signing off … but of course that is exactly […]
Not till September but I have been working on and off for an exhibition with White Noise projects at The Crypt Gallery in September. I find set themes really hard to respond to so was glad they helpfully suggested in […]
The folds, crumples and tears in the paper are an intrinsic part of this work in which the paper can be seen as a reflection of the fragility of the body.
A moment of pause… You take a deep breath before diving in… Check you’re in gear before letting out the clutch… A brief perch on the edge of the sofa… A weekend… The rainy Tuesday when plans go awry… Sit […]
On Wednesday I presented at my recent collaborator on YVAN/Corridor publication Resilience is Futile‘s Smizz’s event Phuckuppery 2 at Sheffield Hallam University. Smizz invited me to talk about failure and I honed in on mental health in the arts as […]
