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Listening. A conversation. Residency365 is a collaborative partnership with Nicole Zaaroura. Our work took us to France last year, a commission for the gallery Espace36 and the Notre Dame cathedral, St Omer. With a brief of connecting with landscape, place […]

The Orkney Museum have given me a space, just off the Archeology display in Room 1, for an exhibition of work from my Artist’s Residency on the Ness of Brodgar in 2016. The show is now open and will continue until the end […]

Dear Blog, it is now some time since my last post and lots has been happening since then: I have applied to submit my work in a London gallery – invited to submit some work, but then rejected at the second […]

The shoot at Wells over, I now have the task of working out how best to use the footage. My embryonic editing skills are being severely tested but with the help of a technician at UoS I’m getting there. The […]

A fine day on site at last, although the ever present wind makes the barrier tape rattle noisily on my sound recording. Quiet voices working on the final stages of Structure 14, where drawings are being made before stones are removed. […]

Using ochres, and industrial revolution colours, Viridian, Mars red, and Cadmium, from  earth to poison.  Layering and taking away.  The next stage was to turn around the painting and wait….

I loved Malaga as a city to visit. Flying over the patch work of ochres on our way in was tantalising enough.   It has a rich and visually present cultural history. The Alcazabah, built on the ruins of a […]

warm cloudy hot sunny all day in the workshop sawing, measuring stretching etc not sure how this is going to work but think maybe trying something new is better than just thinking about it ! enjoying the thoughts swimming in […]

warm cloudy The sand is evenly spread -ish and I have a gallery floor gritty and uniform there is no door in the door shaped hole the next thing to consider is a framing device perhaps with a padded red […]

warm and wet I think have got behind have lost a day can’t remember anything about Tuesday …at all as momentum builds and things need to be completed presentation interview plans preparations sculptures making space using space eating cogitating everything […]

I have recently completed my welding course at Tameside College in Ashton, Manchester. I’ll be receiving a Level 1 certificate any day now. Over the months, I’ve been able to feel confident in being able to set-up and use a […]

Another accidental, life changing event happened at Manchester Art Gallery in 2011. Whilst running a drop-in weekend workshop I noticed a woman quietly observing from the edge. On approaching and inviting her to join in, she introduced herself as the Learning […]