A one week residency here was a revelation. Unlike any other art institution, it served as a sun-drenched time-capsule away from everyday life where we could immerse ourselves in art. I simply tried to respond to the environment and to […]
I’ve been pondering a question somebody asked a little while ago that has appeared back in to my thoughts, “Do you ever get bored of drawing plants?”. I’m not sure why I’ve started thinking about this now, but maybe it’s […]
This is the final week for applications for the residency in Finland and I am excited to see people’s work, also a little anxious to see if this is of interest to the artist community. I have to remind myself […]
How on earth to continue a practice with no income??? Dealing with financial abuse and neglect.
Led by a-n, Artquest and DACS, The Artists Fund is a new community interest company providing small grants to visual artists based in the UK. The pilot programme, which offers five £1,000 grants and three commissions of £2,000, is now open for applications.
Culture Action Europe are hosting a 72-hour ‘jam session’ asking: ‘Are artists and intellectuals obliged to engage in society and politics today?’
“Work. Keep digging your well. Don’t think about getting off from work Water is in there somewhere Submit to a daily practice Your loyalty to that Is a ring on the door Keep knocking and the joy inside Will eventually […]
It can very often feel like there’s an unbridgeable gap in understanding between autistics and neurotypicals, with a frustrating delay in that situation changing anytime soon. This is especially true of organisations with established structures and practices in place, like […]
The disability-led arts organisation has raised over £27,000 through a contemporary art benefit auction.
These 2 works are a kind of continuation of what I was concentrating on last month – those small windows of urban existence – in particular reflections in a puddle and in a small local river respectively. These reflections draw […]
Well, it’s been a very informative couple of weeks. I had a 1-2-1 session with Cathy Lomax, organised by Blue Monkey Network which was really insightful, looking at my overall practice. Plus an inspiring first mentoring session with Rosalind Davis in which […]
Images of Margate people dressed-up in tasteless costumes at parties or at carnivals is nothing new. This is a drawing based on a postcard image from 1930s’ Margate. It’s part of an ongoing series of drawings of people dressed in […]
This term has been a struggle identifying my practice and the understanding of how to develop new work. I realised that I need to explore and identify the properties of materials and processes and not refer to descriptive formations. What […]
The second edition of the project features five new commissions on billboards across the UK, with featured artists including Mark Titchner, Hannah Black and Kathrin Böhm.
“In the destructive element immerse” – that is one of the quotations heading a chapter of “A Life of One’s Own”. It comes from Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim which I haven’t read. It resonates. Milner also quotes often from Robinson […]
I am very reluctant to do this now – seems almost impossible to funnel all the ideas and proto-thoughts into coherent sentences. I doubt my ability to make sense. I can blithely churn out morning pages but with the idea […]
I thought this answers a thought i had in the v&a. ( mentioned in the post when i spoke about what it was like to be dyslexic in medieval times.) ok, so 1st thing i feel i need to do […]
Hese are some photos of work that is up in my studio space at the moment. I have taken down A Lot of the books and replaced them with abstract paintings and ink prints. the ink prints are of letter […]
