I had another morning at Meltdowns Foundry on Tuesday, this time applying resin with a brush. I didn’t put quite enough catalyst into the mixture which meant that the afternoon was spent staring at the work and trying to speed […]
A new toolkit / ‘cheatsheet’, designed by artist Rachel Dobbs, reformats the Arts Council England Grants for the Arts application form to make it more accessible.
Photo: John McCormick My photographer friend John (with whom I recently submitted the first piece of Murdoch-McCormick collaborative work, ‘Creps’ for the Harts Lane gallery open call) spent some time with me in my studio at the end of […]
I’m seven weeks into my slogans project and exploring ways of finding a bigger audience. At the end of the first week I decided to publish a round up of the slogans posted daily with further explanations for each. Here is […]
The weekend of 27th-29th August, Cheeseburn Sculpture Park opens again with another chance to see ‘En-Lighten: Taxus Baccata’ – a sculpture of steel and dichroic glass suspended in the ancient Yew tree. Amazing reflections and light patterns constantly change during […]
Thinking about what my drawings are whilst actually drawing allows me to look at them using a different area of the mind – I think. They seem to be intuitive in a sense and also reactive to the other […]
Detail of the assemblage which inspired a poem relating to my work on Felicia Browne. A central outcome for my Artist’s Eye project is to become more proficient in poetry. Not that I will become a poet in the professional […]
Over the weekend I posted a brief round up of my time in Colne last Friday and today I want to go into a little bit more detail about how the day went and how I felt about it. As […]
Kwong Lee, director of Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery, is to leave the role in November after nearly 11 years in charge.
In the two short films I’ve made recently (In search of the unreal n.01 and n.02) the sections that interest me the most are the views seen through another train. They offer multiple perspectives simultaneously – the train I’m travelling […]
‘Confined Spaces’ is a group exhibition in the cells of the Old Gaol and Police Station at Campbeltown on the west coast of Scotland. Chris Sharratt speaks to artist and curator Rhona Taylor about the challenges of turning the 19th century building into a temporary gallery space for work by 11 artists.
July 24th I spent a day moving and marking with groundwork pro Cardiff – facilitated by Marega Pulsar. Her energy and generosity was infectious – everyone collaborated to make the day exciting challenging and rewarding. Participants were mainly either most […]
“Sometimes just the act of writing down the problems straightens out your head as to what they really are.” Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Chapter 9 I have decided to make writing a regular and more integral part […]
Considering the relationship between art and anthropology has led me to consider my own interest in museums and the ways in which curating has become part of my practice. There are a variety of examples of artists working as […]
Reflections upon three strands of professional development funded by a-n, to further key areas of practice which I established in 2015: Firstly I am building upon a relationship developed with artist-educator Darryl Georgiou, whom I worked with during 2015. Darryl invited me as visiting […]
It was April last year when I found out I was lucky enough to be selected for a Cass Material Arts bursary as being one of part of Made in Arts London’s (MiAL) featured artists. This bursary provided me with […]
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