Perceptions of the Figurative
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On my return journey from Sweden with Swedish filmmakers we’re invited to conduct interview on local radio station Radio Reform. Talking politics in film
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I went shopping to my favourite vintage shop. http://www.teagownsandtextiles.co.uk It’s in Bromyard, Herefordshire, but worth a trip. I’m looking at children’s clothes again for a new project, more about which later, when it has coalesced […]
It has taken me a while to write about the performance I did at the collaborative Ramus|Evans event… there are a few reasons for this. Firstly, as usual, just as I think i can’t possibly get any busier… I do! […]
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CCTV. The Human. Absurdist and what ever else takes my fancy the summer starts now. A summer of Visual Research.
The last few weeks have involved very little making but more reading and trying to form a basis and understanding of my practice. My interested lie in purely material and objects manipulation and defining space they coexist in. I began […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
As I said in conversation earlier today, the practice of writing, even just a sentence of reflection or a question to self helps in progress and awareness of own work and way of working over-time. Once started and a habit […]
Before I sign out of the blog before my hand in tomorrow I just wanted to speak about my works Conjunction, Part the Bench and Abode in relation to two artists which have similar themes or motifs. It was mentioned in […]
I have been completing a few paintings the last couple of days and am very happy with them. I have continued using mud as a medium. I have been making the most out of the sunny warm weather by painting […]
My performance lecture has been heavily influenced by the writings of Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche. But I had added quite a absurd twist in the ritualistic Goldfish bowl aspect and wanted to know why. I was walking from University […]
Egg. Evolution. Circle
Original cell
In March I came to the end of a two year project, The New Immortals, which had culminated in an exhibition which I curated and in which I showed new work along with nine other artists. This marked the end […]
The fifth edition of the open painting prize features 39 painters, with exhibitions planned for London and Dublin.
As I sit in my living room, back home in London I have found myself watching a Art documentary. “Understanding contemporary art- Published on Jan 31, 2013,Category-Education,License-Standard YouTube License” The documentary was a lecture and it was talking about how […]
Walking into Birmingham Museum and Art Galley, one can be faced with many white faces. One painting that strikes me, is The Roffey Family by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1765–1769 , although after time a painting can indeed bleach, Reynolds paintings often lack red pigment, […]
The Glasgow artist Kevin Hutcheson died unexpectedly prior to April’s Glasgow International as he was preparing to open a solo show as part of the festival. Friends and colleagues remember this unassuming master of collage and stalwart of the city’s art scene.
Travel to Tangier and Tetouan
Yesterday, I was busy preparing Portrait Of Ian Duncan Smith With Bandaged Nose to take to Nottingham for the exhibition, and I was invited to volunteer for this event – in a workhouse. I obviously declined, as it directly violates Article […]
When beginning a new series with a pre-defined focus, I collate relevant words and phrases on posits for the eye to drift over and pick out effective and surprising connections from which poetry can grow. Selected words are gathered in […]