These images show me at work in the forge, finishing the small badger skull piece . I have become more and more interested in using steel in my work. Last year I started my training as a blacksmith, as a […]
The programme for this year’s annual Edinburgh Art Festival includes the first solo show in Scotland from Phyllida Barlow and an open call for proposals from early career, Scotland-based artists.
I haven’t written for a couple of weeks. College work has felt disjointed and unproductive, combined with a busy timetable of artists talks and seminars, I feel that I have been unsuccessfully trying to absorb lots of information (brain not […]
Created with the help of Nick Greenglass, a printmaker from the Centre for Fine Print Research!
Solved the Fluo problem 50% transparent medium! (which seems no different to block printing medium…)
Contradictorily, being at the same time excellent and terrible at managing time and tasks – I have still not got any better at it. Widely too interested and distracted in far too many things all at once. It is […]
As a finalist of the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2015, this blog is setup over the coming weeks to document the construct and development of the piece. It will climax with the instillation in Broomhill Sculpture Park at the end of May where the public and judges can vote.
Michelangelo was a great artist and i discovered this image online. The reason i find this piece interesting is the figure depicting a woman is very masculine and shows a defined physic more characteristic of an idealized male anatomy as […]
Today two members of the congregation were cleaning the Church, brushing, dusting and hoovering. It was a noisy morning. I put up my table and laid out the books, pens, camera, sketchbook and continued to read about silence and plan […]
Manchester’s Cornerhouse marks its closure and relocation to new purpose-built venue HOME with a mass participation storming of the building on Saturday 4 April.
I have been reading though Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art. I have been getting a better understanding of colour and how it is used in my work. Like a have said it is from emotion but after reading through this […]
A blog following the making of my piece for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize
This short clip shows the mechanism behind the operation of the bird wings.
My smaller project is a piece which is questioning the balance with nature and waste. These images show how destructive our simple throw away actions can be on the environment and on wildlife. The birds pictured show how they mistake […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Exhausted. The body clock thing is completely confused. Circadian rhythms have become a cacophony to be likened to that outside Farmfoods on a Saturday afternoon. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle has its ups, but this […]
I am not going to rattle on again here about Cornelia Parker, but I am thinking about her pavement casts, and this has forced me to acknowledge what I have learned about my own practice lately. There is a gap […]
After many different phases and layers, this painting is finished. I think there were a few stages in which I could have left it and called it complete but this is a lesson I am trying to learn and painting […]
I’m going to call this piece “deluge” as it represents a downpour of artistic energy and pent up tensions. I have used oil, acrylic, gloss and emulsion paint as well as pencil, sand and varnish.
Time is passing quickly this semester. With the fundraising Art Auction done and dusted, final year Fine Art students at University Campus Suffolk, have already begun the countdown to the Degree Show. Consequently, I have begun to think about ways […]
The House of Commons has selected Adam Dant as the nation’s official artist to document the processes and outcomes of the 2015 General Election.
