These works comprise Phase 1 of a series: Infinite Potential. The influence for this series is architecture at Essex University. The project is an exercise in abstraction from the built environment and its surrounding landscape. The images above demonstrate how […]
Last post I wrote about Painting Without a Rudder. This post I’m happy to report that I’m finding my way. It’s still all somewhat unexpected (in terms of my practice) but at least now the internal logic of what I’m […]
One of the first things that Jonathon Carrie of Norfolk Hedge Baskets says when we arrived for our final studio visit of the project is ‘basketmaking is a multi limbed craft’. Immediately intriguing we were able over the course of […]
I am sitting in my eyrie at Sumburgh, insulated from the wildness outside and barely aware of the noise of the wind in the wires behind me. As expected, there is a lot of weather in Shetland. The morning of […]
The hands relationship to the mouth, is a mutual interest to Kaye and myself. For awhile now we have had many conversations about the hands’ connection to our mouth, so it feels very natural to play with this notion. We […]
Thought I’d borrow a line from Kate Murdoch’s blog, Keeping it Going. It pretty much sums up my creative output since the beginning of the year which has has almost come to a grinding halt. In an effort to gain […]
Well, my familiarity with the Gorge is increasing. As with my encounters with the people who comes and go. The other days whilst I sat in my car etching (it was torrential rain) I saw a large group of walkers […]
I can’t help thinking that this one is baring its teeth at me. My dad has been in a lot of pain and seeing what he has been going through – “wear and tear pain” according to the doctor – […]
My artwork is made for exhibition, and usually carries a message about the human condition, our strengths and weakness. I know that making work is interesting for me, and for those who frequent the galleries which have exhibited my fibre […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Ok I’ll admit it, there is a bit of a Goldilocks Vibe going on here. But that isn’t totally out of whack with the thinking… maybe. But this isn’t yet nasty enough for me to […]
The exhibition is ready to go. Launch is on Thursday evening 9th March. Here is my statement from the catalogue. A few words from the artist. The simulacrum project starts from the premise that a copy might be an imitation […]
The following conversation with Graeme Durant took place as part of his participation in the Critical Perspectives at Teesside University Fine Art. Durant’s work work was the subject of a major survey exhibition at Baltic, Newcastle, UK and at Bloc Projects, Sheffield. For the […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Art is not therapy¹ It is more animal than that² During a rubbish week of illness, death and injustice, I get myself, finally, to the studio. This is not escape This is not soothing This […]
The afternoon of my second day here (the bulk of the first day being taken up by travelling, unpacking and catching up on lost sleep), and I am overwhelmed by the simple fact of being here. I have been looking […]
A month as Artist in Residence at Sumburgh Head Lighthouse & Visitor Centre – and afterwards…?
A major retrospective of sculptor Tony Cragg
‘In the 20th century the phrase vagina dentata is first used, derived from the Latin for ‘toothed’ and meaning ‘the motif or theme of a vagina equipped with teeth which occurs in myth, folklore and fantasy, and is said to […]
As well as a visit to the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, I popped in to the National Gallery to see the Degree show of newly qualified artists from Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdeen and the Highlands & Islands. I was […]
Yesterday I flew to Edinburgh especially to visit this Exhibition. I was not disappointed. She’s long been one of my favourite artists and to see so many of her paintings plus letters, photographs and newspaper articles about her life was […]
The Cultural Campaigning Network has organised a roundtable session with Keir Starmer MP to put forward the case for culture within any Brexit negotiations. a-n members are invited to submit their questions.
