2016 Eco Projects Community Green House from Recycling materials January + February: ArtsCafe is Collecting 2ltr clear plastic bottles ( preferably without labels & not squeezed ) until mid March. If you like to help, please bring us your recycled […]
I have started running a cafe with my husband since May 2015.
We have been organising community art and music events for all ages. The engagement has been very valuable to my own practice and same goes for my musician partner.
On the 6th January I went to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, this was my first time going there. Some wonderful collections and unfortunately ran out of time so didn’t see everything but I found I was mostly drawn to […]
Where does the time go? I can’t believe it’s been so long since my last blog post… but a lot has happened in that time. I’ll try and be concise and keep this short enough to be readable but still […]
It’s time to get into the studio… that is if I can get in it. All my crops have been harvested, dried and now fill my studio. There is just about enough room to get in the door, get to […]
My year has been punctuated by mentoring sessions made possible by the Re:View Bursary from a-n. Firstly, it’s important to say how great it was to be able to pay artists for their time and experience (and we all know […]
january january where art thou ? almost upon february already … alas january january. but wait. january january is still here and soon lest there be forest school progression week with cooking and practical skills. wait oh february there is […]
For some reason I am using a lot more colour! I am continuing to explore printed mark-making and taking some of those experiments into collage work, bringing together various materials, much of it recuperated from discarded pieces of work, ghost prints and […]
www.metamekanix.com and www.metamekanix.co.uk purchased! I am glad they were available. No need for any hyphens or odd spellings! In a couple of days they will be live!
Yinka Shonibare, Rebecca Warren and Imran Qureshi amongst artists creating new work this year as part of the 14-18 NOW programme.
A sample of edits combining my ice and fire series of photographs.
I have been away from the studio for six weeks with Christmas and New Year and straight back into a busy work schedule (part- time work at the Sidney Nolan Trust coordinating the learning programme). Familiar feelings of frustration, a […]
The 2nd series of photos from my Ice and Fire photo shoot. Using a stainless steel bowl to contain the fire; created with scraps of paper. with a Frozen block of jelly in the middle.
A few edits from my previous shoot.
Using a ball of ice in the middle of scraps of paper I created this photo shoot with a natural background.
London Art Fair announces Belgian artist has been awarded £2,500 prize for work exploring influence of the internet.
The Association of Icelandic Artists aims to highlight the working conditions and undervaluing of creative labour that visual artists face.
walking back from work I noticed a big Frozen puddle in a car park.
https://vimeo.com/152498100 I attempted to make another version of flammable ice using frozen vodka jelly… This also failed. I also attempted to make the jelly in the fridge. The structure fell apart and I opted for freezing the next batch which […]
over the Christmas break I attempted to freeze alcoholic hand sanitizer in a mixture with water to make flammable ice cubes. The mixture failed to freeze and just stayed in liquid form only turning cloudy.
