
One Day Round Up
A first glance response to several exhibitions visited in London
A first glance response to several exhibitions visited in London
Hosted by Auxiliary (Run by Liam Slevin and Anna Byrne) Bring Your Own Beamer is a one night mad medley of sound and visuals. Situated in a house/semi-converted gallery/living space, featuring a host of local and international artists.
Sketchup offers such a quick way of constructing architectural spaces – a great new tool for me when putting together commission proposals. A scale plan of a space can easily be imported and traced, then converted to a 3D visualisation. […]
So after a few days with Råfilm Sahwari voices and Eqquie Media the group decide to make a documentary about Mariem Hassan a Sahrawi singer and lyricist from Western Sahara. She usually sang in Hassaniyya, an Arabic dialect and sometimes […]
The art historian Aby Warburg designed a library next to his home in Hamburg that included a reading room with mezzanine and a loose thematic taxonomy of its books into: Image (art history, archaeology and early cultures) Word (mainly ancient […]
This week’s selection includes new media in Manchester, a gallery in a caravan in Middlesbrough and radical craft in Wales.
As I am going through my systematic way of getting the canvas in front of me, pulling a word out of the bag, titling, dating and signing the back of each before painting and now setting a timer so the […]
Today met with Marouane Aouinat the painter after he invited me to his home in an old part of the souk. Marouane graduated a year ago from university of Tetouan. http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2013/inba_tetouan He showed me his journal and some of the […]
In the morning I tried to find the English book shop but it was hard to locate it. I headed for Zoom Pizza for a much needed coffee. There was Pauline who originally told me about it and she kindly […]
As Le Cube was temporarily closed I headed to the one place for food – Pizza Zoom and had a lovely conversation with Pauline who works at the British Council in Rabat. I made a good contact and told her […]
my post this week is being written on a wet, windy and warm sunday following yesterdays first figment festival to happen in europe. a festival where i showed the re-imagined snee snaw. the director of the silk mill development project […]
SUGAR AND SPICE AND SOUTHERN LIGHT SHIFTING INTO NORTHERN VASTENESS SUNDAY, 21 AUGUST 2016 All the work is delivered and hung and ready to view at Sugar and Spice. come along and meet the artists on Tuesday 6-8pm. While down […]
I went into the studio to do a last minute check on the music boxes on Thursday evening, in preparation for Friday’s filming with film maker, Henrietta Thomas. I noticed that some looked more robust than others when I was […]
the powers that be don’t hear and see you sow seeds in the ground, clean dirt from your teeth dust under your tongue and clogging your throat bite the bullet and splash out on some fancy mouthwash an irresistible odour, […]
In an age where computer appears to be King, where computers can do practically anything, faster and in some eyes better than their human counterparts I question the need for the pursuit of a time consuming craft – in my […]
When responding to what it is that physically makes me, I reviewed my surroundings. How they have influenced my life and how they have influenced who I am. How much of my life is a direct response to […]
And a whole. Scrap it. And a hole (non-descript). It’s strange though because seeing something sometimes is not enough. Whereas sometimes seeing something is enough. Na, scrap that. Like being boxed-in by nothing, kind of. As in, what is it […]
Memory makes me confident that it was dark outside. For the sake of having a point-of-view I’ll go with a fish, that way everything will be ever so slightly obscured by the ripples in the water. Speaking of which, I’m […]