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Tracey Emin drawing with paint

Tracey Emin’s show at White Cube was inspiring especially the large gestural brush drawings in acrylic paint on canvas, sometimes unprimed.

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Talk @ The Tate!

Tomorrow it will be four weeks since I delivered a presentation on my practice at the Tate Modern as part of Shape Arts’ Flux/Us: Be part of the art event at the Tate Exchange. Usually, I would write something almost […]

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Time for fun as well as work

There has to be time for fun… not that work can’t be fun as well and maybe should be, but anyhow the studio collective got together for a shared lunch the other day as a send off for one of […]

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remote week off

Despite being on holiday I find myself needing to come to this place and reflect upon my attempts to play this week.  We’re in northumberland staying in a remote location where the wifi is intermittent.  I’ve brought the 360 camera […]

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Social Art Summit

A collection of reflections on Social Art Network’s two-day event in Sheffield, November 2018.

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a Drawing Space by Jonathan Polkest

This blog considers the act and the media of Drawing in both the organisational methodology and the essential instinctive gestural aspect of Making.

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Field notes and discoveries – Stratum

Exciting first meeting in Bristol, discussions, software and imagery show and tell. Thoughts and key words emerged: Liminal Sacrificial Ritual Revealing Enclosure Pulses Immersive Responsive Disorientation Ambient Historical Above Below Interesting ideas emerged that sounds and narratives are a constant […]

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An Unexpected Turn…

I suppose my work has always had women at its heart… mothers, daughters (I am one, but I haven’t got one), sisters (not that I have one) and so on… Women as parents, carers, teachers, lovers, as wives, as people […]

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The Story Of A Failed Rock

One of my main aims for this year has been to find opportunities to continue to work on a larger scale – to make things that are bigger than me – but at the same time my mind is full […]

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First meeting with Jungian expert

Dean Melbourne and I travelled to Bruton in Somerset for our first exploratory meeting with Jungian psychoanalyst Catherine Bygott. Catherine has lectured and led numerous seminars and workshops in the UK and Ireland over the past twenty-five years on Jung’s […]

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