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I have just got my images printed as c-types I was meant to choose 10 but I have chosen 12 I will evaluate them later and decide which ones I will choose to show tomorrow.

The Herring is King ! I have been lucky enough to be given another set of the most amazing photographs today, they are a valuable historical record as well as being very good images, packed full of information. It is […]

What new updates are there? I have spoken to one of my technicians just Friday afternoon if there were any new updates about the £90 role of Acetate they will order. The technician said to me that he should be […]

Being a multi-form artist is a challenge. It’s also the MOST satisfying development in my creative career. Before branching out as a research based artist, working on themes of exile in my on-going post memory project, I was an abstract […]

A bright, sunny start this morning after a couple of days of wind and rain, staying in Hoswick today to meet BBC Radio Shetland this morning to do an interview with myself and Clair Aldington, the project manager, talking about […]

My survey film has a still shot where a man-made structure is fixed in focus against a speed-blurred, haunted background. Inspired by Rachel Lowe’s ‘A letter to an unknown person n.05’, I cut 30 seconds of footage either side of […]

Last Thursday I took a short break to London to see the singer-songwriter, Grant Lee Phillips, at the Islington Assembly Hall.  In the early to mid-nineties he was the front-man and songwriter for the grunge/country three-piece outfit Grant Lee Buffalo […]

It wasn’t quite the last box I looked in, but it was close. Over one hundred 30 litre boxes contain a lot of stuff. Editing the contents and transferring items into transparent plastic boxes over the summer, at least means […]

This is Davie Smith showing me the model of his fishing boat ‘Evening Star’, he had two Evening Stars this is the second one. Davie a retired Captain and fisherman lives in Scalloway with his wife Agnes, they were very […]

Toy, 2015, silverpoint on gesso on board, 12x9cm This is one of three recent silverpoint drawings belonging to my ongoing series of drawings of toy soldiers (the ones depicting dying soldiers).  I wrote a few things about this series of […]

I finally feel comfortable with moving forward and producing the work. After my tutorial with artist Holly Davey I had the reassurance and an extra push that was needed to produce the works. In discussion, the jelly forms were an […]

a few days after my last entry i heard the mosaic i worked on at belper station had been chosen as the best community art scheme (permanent projects)  in the national community rail awards. just when i was fit to […]

At this stage in my career I have to spend quite some time on promotion, and then keeping that in balance with creating work has its challenges, especially when that break in work for putting up shows, collecting material, researching […]