I decided to make a sculpture, based on when my Stomach was removed. The sculpture is of my two lungs. When I was in surgery, they had to collapse my right lung, to access my Stomach. I was in surgery […]
Summary of insights from a talk and seminar at Tate Brtain 30th May 2015 led by artist Emma Smith, relevant to the Kingley Vale residency. Emma Smith introduced her project ‘School for Tourists’: “The School For Tourists is an ongoing […]
our art walk project completed last weekend. 10 days before the project went live i drafted this: my life and art often seem very apart from each other or i’m in the moment and my life is art … […]
A major thought had been running around my mind about the way to show my work ‘Insomnius’ so i decided the best way to evaluate the situation was to set out the sheep in every possible orientation, look/view, and then reflect […]
Its easy to tell someone to run. But its hard to actually… run when you are broken. I’ve always found horses interesting, the way they are utilized by human society, the way they are treated. When a horse is broken, […]
This is about how ‘invisible’ this subject can be to others… unless you tell someone sometimes, its impossible to actually see what is happening behind closed curtains. I got pictures of me and people who suffered abuse; my housemate and […]
Children are far from exempt from the violence that adults are subject to. This is in two parts; it is firstly a keyboard and secondly the child, and I’ll be talking about them both as a whole. The keyboard is […]
This is what I made that was inspired by Tracy Emin. An installation piece, scattered with various pain-pills, topped by a torn pillow with a heavily make-uped face jutting from it. I made sure to scatter make-up around too. This […]
I use a lot of blood in my work… but never bones. These are merely bleached chicken bones, and the blood is from chicken livers; but many people have gazed at it and felt a sense of fear (from the […]
What a bizarre thing this is; I wanted to experiment with something I had never used before… and this is how this thing came about. I wanted it to be vomiting; I wanted it to be rough and I wanted […]
As an artist who plays with furniture, he was someone I was also greatly interested in. Furniture is the staple of the home, and when I saw ‘The Fuco Ueda chair’ I was instantly excited to try and replicate this in some […]
A Japanese dollmaker, I was highly interested in his work for a number of reasons. Firstly was his interest in the morbid… particularly that of the sexual kind. This kind of art style combined with his obsession of ‘amputations, trauma, […]
This was an experiment to see if I was to be able to make a video at the end of the learning year to show in my space. It was a success. I had many people, without telling them of […]
Just a few more shots of what I had done when I was experimenting with photography before I switched and decided to film make instead.
I adore photography. I adore the dark and I adore playing with lighting; so that is exactly what I did. I took multiple series of pictures that I used as development ideas only (some went nowhere, some continued on to […]
It was to start like this; monsters… well, perhaps not monsters, but rather, creatures that I had always loved to spawn in relation to my work. This one here was actually spawned by my fear; I had always had a […]
I feel immeasurably better than I did this time last night; even though today as usual went slower than hoped, still partly due to the rain. But this evening unlike last night is fine and mild, I’ve just walked back […]
K is for Kidlat Tahimik, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports B: 1942 / Dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the “Father of Philippine Independent Cinema”, the films of Kidlat Tahimik are a critique on neocolonialism, primarily influenced by the 1960’s […]
Currently in the process of remodeling the studio, nothing too drastic just tidying up the stairway. We may be throwing open studio events in the near future when work is complete. Just confirmed two exhibitions in London one in July […]
After my major triumph over the vagaries of technology, I’ve decided to stop whinging about things I can’t do and talk about things I can do. Shall devote this blog to my MA tasks. Currently I’m working on a power-point […]
Wow what a day … The ‘ Insomnius’ series has continued at full speed, this is good and what i had planned is working ..i am happy with this. Also, i had the option of displaying one of my photographic works as […]
Our poster for the Degree show. It’s all set up now and ready to go, everyone’s work looks amazing and it’s incredible to think this is the end of the the three year journey we have all been on. I’ve […]
Finally, after a hell of a lot of work and preparation, my degree show space is set up. I am shattered and dead on my feet but it is well and truly worth it. I am so pleased with the […]
Took me so long to work out how to fix my acrylic pictures to the wall even though they had come with wall mounts. In the end one of the other students explained it to me, so after grabbing an […]
My residency at Skaftfell has now finished and I am travelling on to Akureyri tomorrow. Here are more drawings that I have made during my time in Seyðisfjordur. It has been quite a challenge to draw outdoors here and many […]