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Back on the train to Edinburgh this should have been a two day event but things have been changed slightly today (Saturday) is the silver casting and then on the 6th June we will continue with the enamelling of the […]

I have now been on the first of my classes in Cold enamelling  to update my skills in, I travelled up to Glasgow on the Friday ready for the early start on Saturday, there was 8 of us on the […]

On the train t 7.43 AM off to Edinburgh , why cant we have some enamelling tutors in Newcastle ! well I know of one but she is off doing her PHD .  Dorothy Cockerell is a world famous enamelling […]

I arrived in Leipzig early in the evening and went straight to D21, the project space from which Raster : Beton (Concrete : Grid) festival has been organised. This space was founded in 2006 by a group of artist as a […]

I’m hiding away in the hostel, preparing for my big Skype interview on Wednesday. Wish me luck! It’s kind of distracting as everyone is constantly talking and going on trips but I appreciate the constant company. I take breaks to […]

I’ve been back from Athens 6 days now but have only just got round to packing away work from  exhibitions I had in February and March. If it had been in my studio it would have been fine, but it […]

  Working with the fabricator’s delivery

Well, a wonderful opportunity landed in my lap – an invite to produce a film for the Whitstable Biennale Fringe! The downside: make a new film connected to Whitstable in a few weeks when the last one took me about […]

  On Sunday May 29th, we had a further rehearsal, without sculptures, of the music that Julia had composed for the 9 nature sculptures and it was sounded really good. On Wednesday June 1st we had our first performance of […]

It’s been ages since my last post but, in my defence, the time has been well spent. The collage I’ve talked about in the last few posts is deceptively simple but was tricky to resolve. In the end, what worked […]

‘You can’t take it with you’ is a phrase used by my Mum and her mother before her. It’s true, you can’t, and I’ve been thinking again about the ways in which my work often touches on the fine line […]

A truly exciting two days on the object front! Yesterday I finally caught up with a contact who had been keeping some genuine 1930s glasses for me, and I was able to take them with me to the studio today. […]

Here, I want to acknowledge the paper and packaging based things collected in Amsterdam that will make up a book, page-work or fancy ‘something or other’ in the coming weeks. I identify a process of collecting, archiving and arranging as […]

Having a small break from my brilliantly inspiring curatorial critique sessions that have so far taken me to meet curators in Liverpool at The Bluecoat, Leeds at The Tetley and Manchester at International 3 and Manchester Art Gallery. When I […]

in the beginning …. such a biblical proportion of a statement.  the start of the residency does feel of biblical proportions, the ambition of those behind the re-imagining of the derby silk mill museum being bold and looking way into the […]