A digital archive of my residency at Ritherdon & Co – a manufacturer in Darwen- to produce a commission for The National Festival of Making that took place in Blackburn on the 12th and 13th May 2018.
Skulpture Project Munster gets it right. 10 years preparation well spent in between each of its iterations. Many of the public works commissioned by the project continue their life in the public realm after the official 100 days of the […]
The draw has taken place and we’re all set for the qualifying knock-out on Wednesday evening. Pundit A: ‘I can see all the big guns goin’ through to the group stages. I was hangin’ out with the Tranquilayers executives earlier […]
Hello Fans, so what’s new? Well with me, a shiny revamped website. I decided to go with images from the Spode works in an attempt to ‘build’ the atmosphere of my working environment. You may recognize some of the images […]
My ambition for Scents of our Time in 2018 was simply to get it exhibited somewhere. A reasonable enough goal for a project in its infancy, and I’m happy to announce that it will be showing in 2 places in […]
Scents of Our Time aims to reveal the capacity contemporary candle making has for social comment and responsive creative action.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the latest edition of Whitechapel Gallery’s London Open triennial, Lubaina Himid’s banner-like paintings in Gateshead, an exploration of ‘universal collective memory’ in Bristol, and a new exhibition at Tate Britain marking 100 years since the end of the first world war.
The Oceans Apart exhibition at MMU Special Collections Library was curated by Dr John Gibbons from his personal collection of items and manuscripts relating to transatlantic crossings between 1870 and 1940. John kindly met with me last week to talk […]
The artists Lubaina Himid and Rose Wylie, plus Liverpool Biennial director Sally Tallant and Peer founder and director Ingrid Swenson, are among those working in the visual arts who receive honours this year.
A brilliant if challenging day in the ant forest learning how to wield a DJI Osmo gimbal camera on a Massive Extending Pole. My cunning plan is that this will afford unusual and marvellous views of wood ants in flight […]
I’m not sure how current my use of a blogging facility is but one thing I do know is – is that anyone that doesn’t should try it. I find it an incredibly powerful tool for introspection – and […]
Securing a place on the a-n Visual Arts coaching course was the nudge I needed to propel me into an area of artist development that has great meaning to me.
Studio-Intensive Day 8 More of a thinking day today but began with trying to play the guitar with a violin bow. It didn’t work particularly well due to the flat neck of the guitar so only top and bottom […]
Studio-Intensive Day 7 Still full of my recording session and discussion last night. Firstly, it was a Skype link to artist Linda Duvall in Saskatoon, Canada. She invited me to spend time at her In the Hole residency where, I […]
So – ‘Tent’ was completed and installed at the beginning of this week on a blisteringly hot day with the church gardens – which are quite beautiful- in full bloom. A completely different place to our site visit in the […]
So, I now have quite a few clips to go through including a series of go-pro clips taken by Allan and John, the park keepers, who seem to be enjoying the challenge. When I took the go pro away for […]
I now have a door to my studio space. So I am now able to consider the door and not-door as two distinct states of working. Already. It only went up this morning! When there was no door, because not […]
We highlight 22 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows opening during the week of 4 June 2018. As we head into June the number of openings is in full flow, and here we highlight 22 shows opening over the next seven days […]
