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This may be my last ever blog – or not? Today has been challenging. The Loop Box we made is not deep enough for the length of film I have and when I was playing my film it got jammed […]

Presentation The presentation of the plaster objects and the demonstration of the artificial intelligence combined to form my end of year exhibition art work. Began with the idea of presenting a live experiment of the solving of the video game […]

It has happened a couple of times this week – once with a piece of textile work, once with a song. The textile was a scrap of unremarkable looking printed cotton, stitched to the front of a plain cream coloured […]

I have recently come across a book entitled Contemporary Art and Memory by Joan Gibbons. Reading through the introduction it occurred to me that here were a lot of my thoughts written in a far more readable manner than I […]

I remembered my charcoal this time and did a two-hour drawing in the shade by the pond. The drawing got darker as I went on; it was impossible not to reflect on politics and the Manchester bombing. Bright sunlight but dark day. […]

Wow….. suddenly I am acutely aware that I am at the end of a three-year process (well about two years and eight months to be more precise!). I am also very aware that this course has been about so much […]

How come we remember some things so clearly and not others? I recently recalled a memory I had of attending my Uncle’s funeral when I was younger. I remembered how the Church looked and where the grave was in relation […]

I wanted to loop the projector film but because the old projectors are not designed to play a looped film, there is always a risk that it could damage either the motor of the projector or the claw that pulls […]

Three times this week I have been asked if I can use the help of a gallery volunteer. Sorry. No, I can’t. I know it’s not your fault, dear sweet gallery volunteer, you’re just trying to get your foot in […]

  I’m not sure where to start with the Dead Pigeon Gallery. I want to put it into context and tell you all about how I came to meet Jayne Lawless and all the interesting stuff I learned about Homebaked, […]

      All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Kahlil Gibran I am not a natural learner. Well, not in the traditional, educational model of; linear, sequential, bite-sized chunks type learning, […]

If you read my blog, you will be familiar with my struggles with the rigors of the MA course I am pursuing. Every now and again I hit on something which makes sense to me and this has been one […]