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This was my journey to work this morning, following the road as it winds around the voes and cliffs to get to Skeld primary school, over on the western mainland. It was a grey, breaking day, the wind is back […]

So in the last few months I have been planning and working up to making some bigger pieces and the first piece was completed today. In this piece the scale is significant as a reflection on commercial marketing and the […]

Butterflies are wonderfully beautiful and utterly intriguing . Mat Collishaw’s work with butterflies is stunning and takes my understanding of these creatures to a new level. I have just been to a major exhibition of his work at The New […]

Task 1 – Chairman Mao layer 3 to be completed Yes… there has been at least a two week delay in printing my third layer for my Chairman Mao print as the uni’s photo emulsion does no longer work… So… […]

The Fish Van Collection is on its way, tomorrow we are off to Skeld primary school to do a sculpture workshop with the children, all 17 of them. So far I have made 7 boxes which will start the collection, […]

Why look into Carsten Holler’s sculptural works? Carsten Holler likes to make sculptures primarily in sets of two or three which involves ready-made objects to help create his big sculptures. I wanted to look into him because I feel that […]

Why look into Damien Hirst? I wanted to look into his use of ready-made objects that help create his sculptural works such as the inside workings of his human representations and the animals. Also I wanted to look into the […]

Why look into Jeff Koons? I wanted to look into Jeff Koons because of in my latest illness sculpture called ‘The possibility workings of inside a working man’ is a sculpture made from ready-made objects. This is why I wanted […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I have often asked, of specific people, and of the world, through social media, “How do people cope with the world if they aren’t artists?” It is a genuine question, as my response to […]

I have arrived in Xiamen after a week in Hong Kong. If you put aside the fact that Hong Kong is an exciting international city with all the incredible things that you get in a place that has a lot […]

The Gloup fishing disaster memorial. After the Paris attacks last night it was a sad day, it was heartbreaking news, an atrocity. While they are completely different in context and reasons, it found my mind turning to thoughts about fishing […]

What new ideas do I want to make? Based from my last post in my blog about my Chinese and English illness, I have been thinking of different ways not just on paper but also in my mind on how […]

During my group crit. my tutor David Baldry made one comment, that my work would really only achieve the effect I’m chasing if I get the display right, which I have to agree with. It is almost distressing to find […]

I’ve found this week quite challenging and mentally draining at times; the work is developing, however I feel overwhelmed by ideas and certain elements of my practice. It could be due to the fact that formative assessments are around the corner […]

So, I finally did it! I bit the bullet and experienced my first performance! I have to say that I feel a huge relief to have finally done it. What an experience?! I feel like i have just discovered a […]