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The Glossary Album: “Death and the Maiden (to purchase paradise again, which we had lost through our own fault)” These are the sensibilities of a Seventies adolescence. The Barbie gender ideals of old school toy designers juxtaposed with the glam […]

Post by Kay We have been in Shetland for the last week installing the exhibition. It has not exactly been a breeze! But it all worked out well in the end, as these things always do. We have been staying […]

LIFE CYCLE WITHIN A SMALL BOX AND OTHER STORIES Back in. We were to devise our second solo performance. This time we had 25 minutes to explore, but the performance was to be kept to 3 minutes. We were to […]

(9th April 2016) THIS TIME LAST WEEK A week ago on the 2nd April (and slightly longer once I have posted this blog post) I was in London at Arts Admin Toynbee Studios for a weekender workshop with artist Vlatka […]

More miniature babies arrived to crochet blankets for, to fill the spaces where chocolates would, inside the triangular chocolate box. The process of making gives me time to think and evaluate. At the moment I quite a few ideas on my […]

As part of my research I have been exploring at a number of interactive projects online that deal with place and identity in some way, create intimacy with the viewer and could be reference points. I found a few through […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Two more not quite spaces… too small… too dingy…   …and the promise of one that might be the Goldilocks version, but we can’t get in to view till next week… it seems the right […]

I’ve been preparing a new piece of work for a brief group showing coming up in late May in a temporary location. Our gallery, once a car show room, is located just around the corner from my studios on a […]

This week I’ve been working on a collaborative piece for The Somerville Foundation and the UCS Science dept. The brief was: we (12 artists) were to add an ephemeral drawing to the wall of the Waterfront Gallery and to embellish […]

The final trip to Spurn brought realisations of how you can get so distracted in the materiality of objects rather than fluidity of your surroundings. I found myself seeking out plastics in a place they really shouldn’t be, I wanted […]

To get a more qualitative view of the space I’ve only explored a mile of it, this image is secure in my mind and I feel as though I could map out the space through the art I created, in […]

Just looked at the general layout of my blogs before a-n feature me next week and there seems to be several peculiarities in the order the video clips appear. I hope anyone who bothers to view my site can make […]

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The images above show the changing nature of Spurn, to find previous works on later visits was like greeting a familiar face, it brought warmth to me to see the art I re-assembled, being re-assembled by nature, but more so it […]

“One is more aware than before that he himself is establishing relationships as he apprehends the object from various positions and under varying conditions of light and spatial context.” (Morris, cited in Situation Whitechapel, p25) My first visit to spurn […]

I had my first meeting with Sarah and Steve at Meltdowns Foundry in Ramsgate and objective 1 was to actually locate the place. We agreed that the work will be done over the summer, before which I need to make […]

Blurring the Boundaries: Subconscious Collaboration at The Roath Park Pub. Last night was the first collaborative show by me and fellow CSAD student and friend Natalie Ramus at Roath Park Pub. We had a fantastic and supportive turnout; all came […]

My first mentoring session is booked for next week and it’s certainly making me think. It’s making me consider all possibilities, be less dismissive and try to be more objective. Some of my recent paintings came about after working on […]