IV part 2 IV It’s gonna be cold! A For sure, but I’ve got the appropriate equipment. Wool tops and leggings, and down jackets and goretex coats. I’ll be wearing an orange boiler suit and I’ve got an orange outer […]
I am impressed how well scientists explain their research to those of us who don’t have a scientific background. I started a project a couple of years ago with the Oncology Department in Oxford and attended lots of events that […]
As mentioned earlier in my blog, I wanted to research why the floral pattern seems to be associated with females rather than males. I found an article on the subject, written by Andrea Frownfelter. She writes in ‘Flower Symbolism as Female […]
These are my favourite drawings from a recent life drawing session. They aren’t particularly accurate, i’ve elongated parts of the body and missed out a lot of features, such as the feet and facial features. Does this distortion make her less […]
When I started the project 50 Collages Before Christmas I knew there would be times I would be too busy to guarantee a collage each day so gave myself plenty of leeway. One of those times has been this week […]
It’s official, Richard Serra is the most important and most influential artist of the 21st century, well that’s what I say! I could just be saying that I really like his work I suppose, yet if I strip away the […]
IV part 1 IV What is the work? A The work is a performance of a definition of a word… IV And what is the word? A Residence. IV So you’re performing residence? A Yes. IV What is the definition […]
later today i’ll take myself and my equipment into the derby silk mill museum of making and begin the filming for the film commission i’m currently calling four six one. it’s being produced by sue ball, one of the two […]
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, held an event for artists and scientists last night – the project was officially launched before it tours.
blog of the non linear artwork installed in the second floor of the museum of making at derby silk mill. it’s part of the arts and heritage pilot programme of the museum. this programme also features work by toni buckby and red saunders.
A few weeks ago, I made a collage of ripped up paper that had glow-in-the-dark paint all over it. I did this to try and create a statement about “piecing my life together” and struggling doing it. However, when I […]
So, after about two weeks. The tester for the second 3-D models were finally dry. But I found that this batch, also crumbled. In the end ALL fingers fell off. Could make it into a soap dish though….
Figuring out how high the mantle piece should be and depth. Nice in white……
On entering the Turner Prize I was fascinated by the works of the other contenders but my main interest was in Anthea Hamilton. Project for a Door was the stand out piece, originally intended as a doorway into a New […]
A 15 minute Radio 4 programme introducing the economics and ego of marginal gains and the other way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pw1np
Second set of practice sessions today, both coaching and being coached. Ahead of today’s sessions I have been reading Nancy Kline’s Time to Think: Listen to ignite the human mind. It’s a really simple thing; to think. Running an […]
In the last blog I described the development of jewellery-like supports for a ‘primary, sculptural object’ that would take the form of a body plan of a human, but be made up of “elements of objects that support the management of the […]
The original concept was to take place in the Marrakech Souk located at Jemaa el-Fnaa Medina Square, based on the tourist as ‘an outsider’, dealing and negotiating a journey amongst the highly charged intensely busy environment. The idea based on […]
This exhibition was a big inspiration to me, putting my thought process back on track. What was interesting about walking around the gallery was that all the artists are artists I had previously looked into yet for totally different reasons. […]
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I’ve been working on this portrait of Emma Watson for a little while, but I don’t seem to be getting very far with it. I started off painting with brushes, and I just wasn’t enjoying it. So I found some […]
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes an open exhibition in Somerset, portraiture on the margins in London, and a Q&A with Picasso’s muse in Dartington.
A rich show curated by Simon Lee Dicker with artists Jo Ball, Andy Parker and Simon Whetham
This week, a very busy week. I met more students in the print room, a student on the MA studying fine art, Alexander, came in worked and had a chat. And perhaps strangely, about The Wacky Races, strange in that […]
