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This week we were introduced to our art theory module and the concept of self plagiarism. I’d not heard of this before and I have to admit I have an element of concern,  the pressure of feeling like I’m on […]

approaching the end of september in glorious sunshine – its unfortuante that i’ve caught the back to school cold.  despite this i’ve had a good week, with lots of connectivity to people and ideas. i have to say that having […]

D Day 3, Wall Drawing 1. Days and people have come and gone with some successes. Our Day 3 event, How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Machines, co-organised with Amy Zamarripa Solis and featuring my interview with […]

Started my project with looking back footages I took as well as researching what other artists have made in the medium of film. I came across Allora & Calzadilla’s work at their exhibition ‘Foreign in a Domestic Sense’ at Lisson […]

I didn’t have time to write another entry during the residency as there was so much going on. So this is a retrospective collection of thoughts, experiences and things that I encountered. It would have been good to have more […]

I run a forum of artists that meets once a month called Field/s, I set it up with funding I was awarded by Artquest in partnership with the Photographers’ Gallery and always invite a guest to join us. At one […]

The time had come to attempt my first analogue and digital test. I first had to collect the exposed paper from Metro Imaging. They had already exposed the digital image I had made onto the paper, which was then carefully […]

After working with the paper now for a while and testing its exposure to an analogue way of working, I wanted to start combing this with a digital image to further develop my original idea. To proceed I’d need a […]

Seeing as the last few tests were successful I decided that the next one would not be a test strip, but I would instead try one exposure for the whole sheet of paper to create one image. Everything went well, […]

This is the result of a test bouncing the flash light off a reflector in an attempt to create softer edge around the objects placed on the photographic paper. It worked! Something that I now know is how the paper […]

For this second test instead of using a studio flash we used a small speedlight flash gun, and we covered it was two neutral density filters. This meant the exposure would still be short, but it would instead be less […]

This is the result from my first test of exposing the digital silver gelatin paper in the studio, it was a complete failure! We exposed the paper over ten times, shuffling along a piece of card in front to shield the […]

To kick this project off I arranged to meet Steve Macleod, Creative Director of Metro Imaging. It was Steve who developed the digital silver gelatin paper a number of years ago. Through my meeting with him I learnt a lot about the […]

Many years ago when visiting Tate Modern, I saw two photographs by Iwao Yamawaki and Horacio Coppola. They were quite simple, but quite clearly modernist still lifes. They were results of an exercise they were given as students of the Baushaus, […]

Fred has two types of walks those on the lead and those off the lead, this morning was an on the lead walk. On the lead walks are generally into town and at the moment the favourite is to the […]