This week as I continued to explore new directions in the studio I found myself in need of a certain pair of eyes to cast their gaze over the latest works to emerge from this ongoing creative project about my […]
I decided to mount and display my paintings on a white wall partly because I wanted to compare how they all looked with plain white backgrounds, and partly because I wanted to consider where I had got to. I had […]
I have lots of blogging to catch up on. Instalments about talks I’ve listened to by Sean Edwards, Ruth Claxton, Waving Not Drowning (event by Turning Point West Midlands) and a visit to the Artes Mundi exhibitions in Cardiff have […]
Moving on to another vase design? I would say that now that I have mastered the printing formula of my vases with using the right colour inks and papers and techniques, I can now try out other vase designs to […]
Over the next few months I will be posting images of my developing sculpture for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2015. I plan to make a steel structure that will support and display three characters: a rocky outcropping, a moss and an organism.
This blog will show the way I work to create and install an imagined seed bank sculpture for the exhibition to open at Broomhill, Devon, in June 2015, I will add images and info as I progress
Experimenting on a new printing theme? Ok so earlier in the week I have been doing a side experiment which does not involve my main body or printing work, this is just simply to see what it could look like […]
After more reading through Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art I have discovered more about the theory of colour and how it is used. It is said by David Batchelor the editor of the book that artists that use a lot of […]
Wood stain battles with the canvas, I have to force it on. When I begin the process of removal I can see how vulnerable and fragile it is. It’s clear that it’s not designed for this surface. The paintings […]
Some reflections on my recent work and activity.
I am thrilled to start this blog as finalist of the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2015! Here I will be posting some “work in progress” images so you can see how Rock Garden is taking its shape….
After the many months of writing my dissertation I thought I deserved a treat, so I bought myself the Marlene Dumas book The Image as Burden. This was a few months ago before the accompanying exhibition at Tate Modern in […]
This is a short video by Fischli and Weiss showing how things put together in exactly the right way and communicating with the next object at exactly the right time can cause a chain off effects where one thing can […]
Within physical architectural spaces, and in this work Through, I have used light as a material that radiates outside of its boundaries and containers. I have playfully refracted light through the several outward facing windows of And Model Gallery in […]
I have been looking at different mechanisms and have discovered some of the most effective and optimal mechanisms are the simplest, Not only because they are easy to execute but they are easy to restore if anything goes wrong.
At the moment I’m not dancing, sleep-drunk or otherwise, not even in my imagination. The last six weeks my meagre energies have been shrunk&shrivelled by sleeplessness. I’ve reached the stage where most mornings my eyes feel as if chafed by […]
As an entity that watches, or guards, ‘Sentinel’ is precisely that – a sculpture that clearly references the watchtower or guardpost, even the fantastical, yet is explicitly neither. Instead, it inhabits a scale between the architectural model and the average […]
This blog will document the creation of the sculpture ‘Sentinel’ for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2015, for which I am a finalist.
This week is the last of the LAN/Onlincolnshire workshops. Yesterday we invited Paul Wilson from the Onlincolnshire network to offer advice on making an income from blogging – useful for participants not familiar with social media at all, and for […]
Train journeys can be liminal. I’m shifted; removed from the environment of home, travelling towards another kind of space. Somewhere between leaving and arriving I transmute into another version of myself; one with different roles and responsibilities. Structure isn’t absent […]
Following on from the previous blog entry I wanted to write about why I am resurrecting an idea for a piece from 1994. Christmas 2014: I went to Germany to what was meant to be a family reunion and that […]
A conversation focused on ‘the studio’ with five Foundation Art and Design students that I work with revealed some interesting ideas about communal space, sharing ideas and getting value for money within a Higher Education setting. During the first Exploratory […]
I mentioned in a previous post that I would like to paint my faces on a larger scale. After prepping my metre square canvas with a pink base coat I began sourcing an image of Dr Who. David Tennant who […]
The Atmospheric Tide was my proposal for this year’s annual Broomhill Sculpture Award for 2015-2016. Over the next few weeks I will be posting here updating this blog with images and written updates on the progress of going from […]
