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The countdown to hand in the website has begun. for the last few days I have been trying to make last minute changes to the site and feel that I have got it to a nearly finished site. But as […]

The way I work is very scatty, hence my seeking order.  The Lost Library project has so many angles to it, it risks being lost and totally incoherent.  There are lots of opportunities along the way and the nature of […]

Things are moving really fast. As well as talking through the ideas around the piece with Gemma, I have also spent 2 sessions with another artist working alongside me. We have experimented with different approaches to the work, and I […]

Precarious Aesthetics: on the recent work of Holly Rowan Hesson – Derek Horton. So delighted with this new essay on my work from Derek Horton (co-director of &Model Gallery among other things). The essay is the final part of my now […]

Whilst creating live art I hope to get a full sense of the space including: weather, sounds, time, changes, paths, colour, touch, scents and depict this through photography, film and 3D and 2D ‘drawings’. The project is about becoming familiar […]

Hi there, thank you for stopping by. The above image is the progress that I have made on my latest drawing. What do you think about it so far? This drawing will take at the very least another six weeks […]

Sitting at our kitchen table where she has sat hundreds of times before Padma says “I am lost”.   Continuing with research into the history of global sea trade, especially early trade in spice, dyes, fabric and sugar and confirm […]

For the past few weeks I’ve kind of just ignored the impending doom that is the degree show; the culmination of 3 years of mediocre work. I haven’t even begun to think about layout/what I want to include/theme/anything. I’ve just […]

Have found the positioning I’m happy with and have added the corresponding hexadecimal colour code to each of the large pixels. I think this has the right balance between emphasising that this is a digital construct and being an interesting […]

“He broke off, and she fancied that he looked sad. She could not be sure, for the Machine did not transmit nuances of expression. It only gave a general idea of people – an idea that was good enough for […]

Making new work is never easy. Fight the desire to abandon it as a failure. Instead, empty my mind of fixed expectations and play freely with form and materials. Hold my nerve. Persist until something happens. Pin the results on […]