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I did think I was going to write a sort of review of the year, as that seems to be the done thing. But then I realised I just couldn’t be arsed. It was a bloody good year, I got […]

Lithuania First week back into uni didn’t actually happen until October for myself and a few others, as we travelled to Lithuania for a week’s residency (22nd – 29th September): We flew to Kaunas airport from Stansted, met by Rimantas […]

  a year ago i reflected upon my 12 in 14 journey, today i start to consider how well my drilling has been this year. beginning this blog i had no preconceived ideas of where i would be at the […]

not since the late 1970’s has there been a full moon on christmas day and i planned to capture the event in some way despite the heavy cloud cover in the preceding hours before sunset. here are my four images […]

i woke this morning with thoughts of giving myself a new blog to write. my morning has been relaxed and i have received a few things and i feel happy.  my best present is a made bird, i went onto […]

The museum has been quiet since a flurry of excitement about the epic Joseph Cornell exhibition at the Royal Academy this Summer. I must confess that I’m finding it increasingly difficult to focus on this space with so much diversification […]

Bye Bye Shetland…..for now. The end of the residency and back down ‘sooth’ until next year.

Audioblog – Please click here Drawing can be an intimate act. I’m now feeling desperate to start the task of drawing my chairs. When I think about it my heart beats a little faster and my pupils dilate. There is […]

So to go with the lovely story of the “leaf come tree fruit” I have been working on some pomegranate images…… This is the story of a migration, of a child growing up in the sun and ochres and vibrant […]

Level Head                              Martin Hamblen                      Whitstable Biennale 2016   Level Head      – a ten day project performing the phrase level headed through balancing a 6ft spirit level on my head      at various locations in Whitstable. I will perform […]

LeftCoast – Blackpool and Wyre* Lead organisation: Blackpool Coastal Housing Grant: £3,000,000 (original) + £1,000,000 (new funds) LeftCoast aims to engage and excite audiences in Blackpool and Wyre, bringing world class arts to people living on the Fylde Coast. The […]

Taking in the Buoys The last few days have been taken up with meetings and presenting my final 3 proposals for the sculpture. The first meeting was on Sunday to the community advisory group, made up from a mix of […]

I’ve almost concluded my artist residency at Lancaster West estate. There has been a hiatus to the community project work that has consisted of making large scale drawings for a mural and a short film. The regeneration works on Grenfell […]

The third and final workshop in the first a-n Writer Development Programme took us to Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery on Thursday 19 November for a session led by The Arts Desk‘s visual arts editor, Fisun Guner. All five programme participants braved train delays and […]

  Audioblog – Please click here I had a gentle afternoon with a fairly newish but very lovely friend Sarah Goudie.   http://sarahgoudie.com   We had about two hours of earnest conversation over pots of tea and assorted things to […]

At the beginning of the month I found myself in Coventry where my piece “Stitched Time” was shown in an exhibition to accompany a symposium at the University called Drawing Conversations. Although my academic brain felt a bit rusty on […]

As I work more regularly with Tim it has been interesting to consider both the similarities and differences between our approaches to our own practices.  Last week it occurred to me that artists have far (far!) less distance from their […]