Strategies and Tactics… The following day I walk into the National Art gallery, lured by a huge banner ‘Strategies and Tactics’. I cannot resist. The title resonates so well. Presented by The White House Biennal, Athens, and curated by Lydia […]
This blog will document the live art I create at Spurn and my experience of the environment. Focusing on the ‘psycho-geography’ of the place I aim to explore all aspects of my surroundings, natural and synthetic.
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Danielle and I sparked up the furnace yesterday afternoon and melted the lead to take a cast from the dry plaster cast for my work Love Triangle. It did not turn out as I expected, however it has interesting properties […]
Controversial corporate sponsorship by oil and gas company set to end in 2017, with campaigners calling for other galleries to follow Tate’s example.
It has been a while since my last blog post. Mainly because I have been so wrapped up in my practise. There has been so much going on. Since my last blog entry. I spent some time developing staging for […]
The Meeting Point project will present artworks in unexpected places and support small and medium scale museums to commission artists.
The Europarc Project has seen North East Lincolnshire-based artist Marc Renshaw researching the strangely detached world of the region’s ‘flagship’ business park. a-n Writer Development Programme participant James Steventon talks to him as an exhibition of his work goes on show at The Collection, Lincoln.
Yesterday I almost got to the point where I had moved the scarf from one end to the other and then altered the direction. This was with an incremental speed value so the movement gets faster. I ran out of […]
After the rather slow struggle to get my paintings to progress in the right direction, I moved from the canvas to the camera. I began by looking at the environment around me rather than the internet for inspiration, first of […]
Settled series; An Essence of G, Uncle, 2011 oil on canvas, Loleithaart One Sunday afternoon, as I visited my Uncle and family, we were all chilled out after our lovely meal of chicken, rice and peas, mac and cheese, roast […]
i was on the telegraph website, clicking through some of the art articles when I came across this artist Alex Queral. the work is made by drawing a portrait over the pages of a phone book. He then starts to […]
I was in the gym yesterday and an advert came on advertising wix to build your own website. this is the platform that I am currently using to build my website. It is pretty simple to use and I recommend […]
‘Baby baby’ Tissue paper, 2015/6 The power of birth! This particular piece is identifying our beginning, the hopes and dreams of a new life, innocence and happiness. All before LIFE’S stuff, incidents and perceptions are propelled, like the drivers in […]
I’ve started toying with the idea of sketching the subject with paint rather than painting with paint. The paintings I was doing were okay but they werne’t wowing me at all and I was never really happy with the final […]
Credit: Christine E. Farrar, Zac H. Forsman, Ruth D. Gates , Jo-Ann C. Leong, and Robert J. Toonen, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Manoa. The behaviour of corals is as fascinating as their forms and the extent […]
Had an interestingly tutorial today which led to thoughts about these two images. One is of one of the many observational drawings made during the recent residency at Brisons Veor in Cornwall. Impressed by the incredible geology and landscape ….I […]
i went with the flow this afternoon. throwing off shackles of thought my conscious dialogue explored the forthcoming possibility of making and showing work in a photographic society context. in my moments of flow today i started to make new connections […]
Early in the semester, I’d had the idea of making work on and around the subject of the conflicts in the Middle East, in particular the west’s involvement in Syria and Iraq. I thought about making a series of paintings […]
After my Self-portrait, I decided I wanted to continue with this style of altering the natural tones in the face, and so I took a series of photographs of my sister. These images show the stages of the portrait painting […]
Have just discovered a potentially new way to illuminate my Blackroom with a substance that could become the art as well … Exciting stuff. Can’t say anymore at the moment as not able to experiment with it until beginning of […]
Experimenting with the larger ‘droplet’ by trying resin pigments. Having been told that the colour bleeds into the clear cast resin during curing, but wanting the swirling effect of marbles, I tentatively used the the special resin pigments, but also […]
Having had a seminar presented by two RCA students studying MA in Fine Art, I then had a fabulous tutorial with one of the students about my degree work. Sounds strange, but I was struggling to really believe the connection […]
On February 25th 2016, we, the final year BA Hon Degree students held an Art auction to raise funding for our degree show. We made a whooping £8000. We were all involved in different aspects of the organisation for the event. […]
Dublin-based artist to collaborate with renowned theatre artist Olwen Fouéré on work that addresses social and political issues.
