A crazy couple of days. Up at 6, leaving my hut at 7 and walking through the woods to the site. That and the breakfast call home helped me overcome the weariness, stiffness and footsore-ness to face the day ahead. […]
Just returned from the brilliant FKL Soundscapes and Sound Identities Conference at the beautiful Castell Besen in Trentino, Italy where I presented a paper and a sound/video work. Learnt so much over three days and met lovely people who I […]
The Board of Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, have appointed a new director following a competitive interview process and a period of uncertainty about the organisation’s future.
This week’s selection includes George Shaw’s suburban nostalgia in London, Nicolas Party’s wall paintings and portraits in Edinburgh and Grayson Perry’s ceramic pots in Margate.
Informative document detailing ethos and six funding priorities for the Foundation.
For the first time in 20 years I am to exhibit in a group show in London. It is a small show ‘Pure Painting’ in at the Brent Artist Resource Gallery. Nothing too grand to shout about one might say, […]
This course it was a fantastic journey trough the World of art, it was good to improve my skills and conduct me to the right field in the art World, in the beginning I had perhaps a little bit problems […]
Now it’s the end of three years of hard challenge, I have no doubts that this course it was my biggest challenge in my life, but it was good to improve my skills and put me through my right field […]
New Visibility I’ve become newly visible in the university, wearing bright t-shirts that label me ‘artist-in-residence’. I chose this uniform for a couple of reasons: partly because the t-shirt is a good conversation starter with students and staff who […]
A Covert Operation My first week on residency is a fairly covert one. I’m mostly in the background, in the corner, unnoticed. I was even mistaken for a student a couple of times. Café as Workspace I wanted […]
Views from the plane on my flight to Akureyri. Most of the interior of Iceland is still covered in snow. I took two flights to get to Akureyri so I had a really good view of Iceland from the air.
U is for Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports 1929 – 1999 / ‘Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, choreographer, dance educator and researcher, spent almost four decades in the discovery and study of Philippine folk and ethnic dances. She applied her findings to […]
Degree show time again and I am impressed once again by the bredth and individuality on show (often bravely) at Hereford College of Arts. I have also had a peek at the Bath Spa show which was a treat too. […]
In September 2014, I still was walking around with my walking stick. Now, I am a new man, and walking without a stick! I want to thank all off you, that has helped me. I am grateful for what you […]
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 […]
