Sometimes during periods of reflection, perhaps gently swept away by meandering philosophical thought I wonder why I do what I do? Why do I spend hours, upon hours working on a drawing that sometimes never sees the light of day? […]
Having looked at some of our footage, we decided we needed to reshoot a bit. We have made a film of the intersection of some motorways but the sky looks a bit boring, we fancied some dark clouds in it. […]
Knocking off the ceramic casing. The first panels have been cast into bronze, exciting !sitting in the ceramic shells. There are 30 in total, 12 of which have been cast, the second batch of waxes have just gone back to […]
A wonderful sky to begin the day. One watercolour and four drawings achieved during the morning, with accompanying sound recordings. By lunch time rain arrived together with a gale so all work was abandoned for the day. During my afternoon off […]
Following two weeks of concentrated work on the programme I outlined for the a-n PD bursary I was able to put learning and work made in this time in to practice at a music night in Wolverhampton put on by […]
i’ve been working from home today. the emphasis has been on establishing the osc control between the main isadora programme and the arduino driving the neopixels (individually addressed rgb leds ). in the finished work the neopixels will communicate the […]
I felt that walking over the wallpaper was like walking over my past. However, the footprints were pressed into my past. The paper and my feet merged. Arguably you cannot separate yourself from your past. I was angry with elements […]
Mandy smelled the same as her sister all those seasons ago curled up in the very same blanket. Sam by then was a year and a half old. The arrival of Mandy was a similar affair as the arrival of […]
Preparing image strips
My meeting with artist and musician Rebecca Lee happened quite by chance, but turned out to be a really fortuitous encounter. We introduced ourselves at a special moving image event (Film Free and Easy) at Primary (the studio space where […]
To accompany the diagram poems in my The Wonderful Pile of Dirt exhibition, I will be presenting a selection of the “devotional objects” pictured above. These small scale assemblages reference sacred art and ritual objects from a variety of traditions. Each […]
My successes, failures and experiments using the sgraffito technique in pottery
Am stuck at the computer with a painful shoulder and painful leg so thought a brief update on activity might be a good distraction and more fun than tidying my office… I organised my first open studio with studio colleagues and three invited […]
Fine weather all day and very hot. Lots of drawing, colour notes and recordings of background sound. Some drawings (not shown here) are across both pages of the sketchbook. These will be joined up with colour added later.
In preparation for our bee visit today, we looked up the dos and don’ts of apiary life. Don’t be overly perfumed. Or be smelly. Bit of dilemma there. Don’t wear black socks, as bees sting dark things. Be calm at […]
Today I knocked the resin out of the moulds and realised how much less work it is if you get the mould right in the first place: I would have needed even more shellack… I think I’ll try melamine moulds […]
As the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail celebrates its thirtieth year with the unveiling of two new commissions, Arts Council England and Forestry Commission England have announced a new four year partnership to expand and extend the reach of their Forest Art Works programme.
I am heavily interested in the notion of fragmented materials and the organic matter; this is an endless focus in my practice through my choice of materials. The second work for my MFA show is a 7 foot x 4 […]
This year we have had three members blog about their practice during an MFA at Cardiff School of Art & Design. In depth analysis and self-reflection, along with inspiring material exploration and exciting performance work are discussed in blogs by […]
