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This is another part of the Aberystwyth show, that formed one of the other screens. It is an animation, printed onto perspex squares held by many people, that when run together make an animation. The squares were put in the […]

I creep gradually towards the 3rd July… A plethora of small tasks fill the days, and an occasional day of “proper work” at The New Art Gallery Walsall to root me in the real world, occasional communications with students, reminding […]

My first photos (on iPad) are of how the museum looked when I arrived. All brass pieces.   A brass plug and chain found by Daisy and retrieved from a skip plus a brass lamp stand, which just stands up within […]

The summer show…What an experience that was! I have to say the past two weeks have been an incredible rollercoaster of emotions- it’s a cliche I know, but so true. Leading up to the show you’re going a hundred miles […]

A couple of weeks ago writer Carrie Patten made a visit to my studio, we talked for an hour or so and she looked through work in progress and pieces ready to show. Her reflections have allowed me to consider […]

Why this, why bother? I remember during a tutorial at art college a while back, a ‘pure painter’ tutor uttering those rather cruel and devastating words…’why bother?’. I decided to take this as a deliberate and provocative stance to test […]

Really think this is some mind expanding work, where paper sculptures are created by cutting up and manipulating the pages of old books.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZkvJe9OAM

“In Spanish there is a very pretty word that describes this – ensimismarse: to lose yourself in thought, by reciting a poem.” Spanish Republican exile, Jorge Semprún, on his one escape from the constant contact with others enforced in Buchenwald concentration […]

I went back to Aarhus this week for a quick 2-day trip, doing children’s workshops, more like ten minute chats with groups of children (I have been amazed and impressed by how many schools and kindergartens have been bringing their […]