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Even after all these years I still feel that every time I make a piece of work or undertake another project, I learn something new… about myself, about my practice, about the way I make my work. Now at the […]

Looking through the photos that I’ve taken and selectively editing has been pretty exciting. I’ve been experimenting with repetitive pattern, symmetry and the perfection of the circle. The results plot a journey rather than final pieces. Some remind me of […]

Paul Huxley RA will be in conversation with Holly Rowan Hesson at arebyte Gallery, chaired by Caroline Worthington, Director, Royal Society of Sculptors as part of the exhibition Conversation in Colour. Details Rsvp: [email protected]  

I am eager to make a start on the files. I shall explore every video and photo (but perhaps not Mary Beard being filmed for a BBC documentary, despite how exciting this was: she had a lovely pink streak in […]

It is important for me to visit the site where the final outcome of the commission will be positioned, to get a feel for the environment it will sit in: next to a park, a thoroughfare for students and businesspeople, […]

It’s been a while since I was asked to do a large commission; the last one was meant to be a series of paintings of the disappearing light over the Hudson river from the freeway in Manhattan – of course […]

Drawing inspiration from Dee Heddon’s walking libraries and the book Home Altars of New Mexico, Thread and Word’s Walking Shrines is a walk which takes you on a journey through books, poetry, Margate and the passion and following these engender. […]

“And show me where the treasure lies…” The House of Arden – E.Nesbit (1908) The relationship between art and writing, art and reading and art and texts is vast. Artists write statements about their work, read books for inspiration and […]

  The Berlin Art Institute runs a residency programme for artists at all stages of their career to come and make work in Berlin, located in Weissensee in the north west of the city it’s a really calm and green […]

[INSERT TITLE] at Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Image: © www.BerlinArtInstitute.com Work by Helena Hladilová   We visited the Kleine Humboldt Galerie, located inside the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Curators Agnesa Schmudke & Elisabeth Stumpf  gave us a tour of the show and exhibiting artist Britta Lumer talked about […]

Monuments Seminar at BAI, Image: © www.BerlinArtInstitute.com   Artist duo VARIOUS & GOULD led a seminar on monuments, discussing past and present monuments of Berlin and the relationship monuments have to their own practice. I followed this seminar by visiting some of […]

  I visited the Berlin Biennale during my time on the residency. The Biennale took place over 4 sites, including, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2), ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics. Titled We don’t […]

Pilvi Takala came to talk about her work, she started by discussing a performance piece called ‘The Trainee’ where she pretended to be a trainee at the accounting firm Deloitte. She would ride the lift up and down all day and sit […]