The morning of 8th of September saw me in london for the Unlimited Festival at Southbank – a festival highlighting the best in disability arts and performance – mostly from commissioned work by Unlimited. But I had other things on […]
In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Cuban activists issue manifesto against artistic censorship; artist Simon McKeown joins UK advisory group helping to enhance equality and diversity; Liverpool Biennial appoints curator for 2020 edition.
September 2018 The inspirational buzz of this year’s John Moores Painting Prize exhibition and opening of the Independents Biennial 2018 provided another opportunity to explore Liverpool’s cultural melée, this with the added bonus knowing I would be part of the […]
South London Gallery’s new annexe in the former Peckham Road Fire Station, originally built in 1867 and London’s oldest surviving purpose built station, doubles the gallery’s exhibition space and will also house its Post-Graduate Residency programme.
I have wanted to express some of the ideas and broader research by drawing and writing on the walls or drawing onto paper and pinning to the walls. It has been difficult to have time to let the meadow grow […]
With the MA show looming, I have needed to consider how I present the work. Do I allow visitors to walk across the meadow? So far only myself has walked into the space and that has been bare foot and […]
I have been thinking a lot about access to land, commoners rights, access to wild spaces, rights of way and pathways. Robert MacFarlane talks about words for path in his book ‘the old ways’, I very much like the words […]
There have been all sorts of creatures and fungus appearing, a few moths, daddy long legs, spiders. The room can feel quite still but whenever I water there are things that fly up into the air, and usually the next […]
Documenting the process of working with digital silver gelatin paper for which I received an a-n Professional Development Grant
Different animals, different souls, one drawer :)
Simply enough, the staid expression of giving someone the ‘time of day’ comes from the gesture of telling a person what time it is when asked. It’s a basic mark of respect or show of empathy. Generally it is used […]
With two Instagram feeds, Nicky Hirst uses the app to observe, collect and re-shift images related to her practice, which deals with the serendipity of found imagery and everyday occurrence. Richard Taylor finds out more.
It has been fascinating and exciting watching plants grow in the space. It is interesting to see how much more things have grown where there is natural light getting in, other areas where the light cannot fully get to, there […]
Over the summer, I have had to deal with the bureaucracy of a PIP application for my son. I took part in Mansions Of The Future Summer School in an attempt to try to work out how to restart my […]
Part two of a series of blog posts documenting my research visit to the Finish Bioarts Society, and my investigation of the advantages of interdisciplinary arts practice.
Objects of interest from the skips today: Broken cellar door Kitchen sink from a kitchen refit Rocking horse given to the previous owner but ‘immediately trashed’ by her kids and too small for them anyway. File used to store important […]
