Questions I began by explaining that after Christmas my colleague at the studios would be coming in, and that we should come up with some questions to ask him. Hands went up straight away, which I was pleased about […]
Having reviewed the previous day’s activities writing the blog I began the day with defined strategies, a sort of map of activities to follow. I recognise I’m alternating between working intuitively responding onsite, and defining parameters within which to work. […]
my next step was to test out a smaller version of a bigger piece I wanted to do, this involved a pile of figures about 15kg or 200 figures piled together all at different stages of caramelization, the idea was […]
Setup This week setup was short and sweet as there wasn’t much that needed doing, I had brought with me some worksheets I’d created to fill the gap of the logbooks for the time being, as I felt last […]
Today I got my first view of what’s been going on in the workshop in Roskilde. My first impression: wow, it’s big! Of course I knew it was going to be big, but it takes a moment to adjust to […]
I liked this process but I enjoyed the photographs of the pieces more, but I couldn’t get the photographs professional enough because what I enjoyed about the photographs was the reflections running through them and to get a more professional […]
A new vase stencil design? I would say that it was not easy getting hold of this design as it was quite a blurry vase when I first saw it online. So I had to just take it anyway and […]
A recent vase stencil design? Yeah… I would say that I not only picked out another of my vase stencils but I have also made quite a challenge for myself. Before doing any of this vase printing I had already […]
On Tuesday I headed for the printing room thinking on how I could to get my prints looking good , preparation is the key here.. Thinking to myself this is rather like a ritual, I had my lovely new […]
Acme reveal the winner of award open to current studio residents.
My favourite gadget is my iPad, which resides right next to bed, within reach even when the kitchen moves out of walking-range, sitting up is hard to do and my arms are too tired to – almost anything. I use […]
I have finally finished this painting, I put two of the square canvases I made together, one was a canvas that I was having no success with. These canvases have oil paint, acrylic, gloss and emulsion as well as coloured […]
K is for Kali Martial-Arts, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports ‘Arnis/Eskrima/Kali – The three are roughly interchangable umbrella terms for the traditional martial arts of the Philippines. These arts emphasize weapon-based fighting with sticks, blades, improvised weapons and hand-to-hand fighting which […]
Today Kollektiv Gallery give away their business model, by launching free A-Z manual for crowdfunding creative projects and opening pop-up galleries.
Setup Unfortunately during this week I found out that the log books used for Arts Award are currently being remade and are at the printers now, which means they won’t be ready for use until next year. So I […]
Set Up This week I didn’t come in early to speak with Millie; I just started setting up the whiteboard for the erasing meanness exercise. Using suggested words from the website, it took me about 20 minutes to set […]
I first posted images of the objects below a year or so ago as part of an artist call on Twitter. I can’t remember what the theme was now, but I do remember being aware of how personal and precious […]
First day of ROCK 2. I bring lots of stuff and start a new sketchbook. I write a list of ways forward: research into floor mosaics, floor patterns, tiles which were made usually of local earths. The ground beneath our […]
A blog that will follow my practice starting from my final submission of second year at Northumbria University and finishing at my final year degree show.
So this is me, stung on a Tuesday and I’m absent from the chair ‘Sing to the stones sing by the sea water wash over me’ I would rather stop the tide but I am unable to make the waves […]