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warm/hot first thing is to get to the shop a day without bread is too long ! cycle for the last time to grandfresnoy it’s warm the sky is low the fields of darkening gold border the empty road outside […]

warm warm warm there is a pile of half formed things in the workshop things that haven’t worked or haven’t found a place failed experiments futile gestures half formed things disappointing non-outcomes but food for thought a new language is […]

Making objects that you can touch, move, smell or even ‘wear’, has been a growing element of my practice. Space in the process, provided the perfect opportunity to explore the benefits these objects may have on a child with autism, […]

The process of mentoring has been extremely rewarding and has allowed me to develop my work significantly. It has opened me to a wider understanding of my own work and how others read it. Firstly, how an artist presents themselves […]

My mentor encouraged me to experiment with still life beyond the dolls. I had produced a portrait of my cats using their chewed cat toys for an exhibition I curated at PAPER, The Cat Show, and considered how I could […]

At the end of the 3 months, I presented the work I had completed to my mentor. My current body of work is based upon still lives of Ball-Jointed-Dolls. These are fully articulated Asian dolls that can be painted and […]

I am coming towards the end of the 3 months and I have the majority of the 20 works complete. I am managing two art fairs back to back for PAPER, and I have used any spare time around the […]

After completing my website, my mentor felt that my current work still had a long way to go. She felt that there wasn’t any point in pushing my current work until it was developed a little further (I had only […]

Having been a professional artist for around 20 years, I have a huge catalogue of work. This catalogue amounted to around 320 works, all of which were presented on my website. I used my website as an archive of my […]

Palestine May 2017   It was Paradise Unlimited Commission R&D Residency. It is spring in Palestine, and so the weather, for us at least, is pretty well perfect, being warm and breezy most of the time. We arrived late in […]

Have you ever come across something retrospectively and immediately regretted missing out? This happened to me last year I was introduced to independent art publishing fair Offprint. Offprint was exactly what I’ve been looking out for: an international publishing fair bringing together […]

  My large scale cross-stitch work The Thread of Life (sharing it’s title with the project I ran alongside it), took one year to complete. I had set myself a deadline to ensure that I had an unfinished piece of work. However, […]

The exploration of scent in art is seldom practised by artists and, as a result, isn’t particularly acknowledged by arts venues, organisations or funding bodies. As such it comes with a unique problem – how do you make scent in […]