AUDIOBLOG – Please click here A quick post today… It is interesting to note that I have contacted three independent, private landlords/property agents about spaces that are empty in and around Birmingham. I have looked at websites, emailed, and followed […]
I am feeling delighted that I have been selected for the “Nautical Perspectives” exhibition to be held at Commodities House, St Katherine’s Dock, between 1st and 15th of May. I will be showing 3 works which are concerned with the […]
I am trying to take myself less seriously – I get all involved in my subject matter and forget to laugh at myself. And now I am diving in to my current concerns… The rhythm of making calico boards for […]
At the recent Art Is… event at Tate Modern, the Freelands Foundation gathered together a cast of artists, educators, gallery directors and more to present a series of talks and discussions about the idea of socially useful art, the importance of art education, and the role of creative freedom for artists. Fisun Guner reports.
A collaboration between artist Alex Murdin and the local community has turned the verges, hedgerows and other public spaces around a new housing estate in Wiltshire into suburban farmland where foraging residents can feast on a ready supply of edible herbs and fruits.
A big thank-you to a-n for a Travel Bursary Award 2016, which will help support my travel/research costs towards producing new work this year.
A diary of art making and influences for a year.
Ingleby Gallery, which represents 26 artists including Charles Avery and Katie Paterson, is to sell its home for the last eight years and move into a smaller, less costly space.
On Saturday the 9th of April I visited Glen Finglas again with the idea to walk the same route as the previous day but this time to concentrate on collecting sound recordings that reflected the natural objects and environments that […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The next property to be viewed is right over the road from the desired studio that needs all the work, that we can’t afford. I am not sure how I would feel looking out of […]
My first experiences of making and moving in a large space evoked a sense of full extension. It took me back to many different life’s moments. I remembered Iris Young’s feminist essay on Throwing like a Girl – I remembered […]
This blog tracks and follows the developments taking place during the bursary time. It will be used to inform my own process and practice as time moves forward and act as a reflective journal and means of gaining feedback or to develop conversations and dialogue
I have been invited to exhibit at the 3rd edition of Coup de Ville, a Contemporary Art Triennial located in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. This edition focuses on wastelands and in-between spaces, and invites the selected artists to respond and intervene in select locations.
Blog recording development and work in progress in relation to the professional development bursary awarded by a-n in 2016.
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It has been a long time since my last blog update, and so much has changed that I wouldn’t know how to catch up! I thought I would post about a recent work….. Thoughts / thought process into development of […]
London-based artist and filmmaker wins £25,000 prize to fund the making of new work to be exhibited in Amsterdam in 2018.
We started the day with a visit to the site. We talked about what a significant space it felt with the trees all round it. It is the first time Gemma had seen it so it was useful to get […]
Up to high dow about Degree Show approaching so quickly, there is so much work to do as a group, the catalogue in particular, we have a meeting tomorrow to get this nailed down. Also panicing about casting my figures, […]
My studio space, more photos: These photos are relevant for potential hanging of work. Notes I use the Notes app on both my I-pad and I-phone a lot, I find it is easier than pen and paper for general notes […]
Right, my Lost Libraries project is going up a gear now. I have spent almost 3 weeks of the past month with this dreadful cough-flu that is going around. Though not ideal or welcome it has provided unforced time of […]
