Photographing the Books *warning – contains profanity* For the last two days we have had photographer Professor David Knight in to photograph the re-made books for the BOOK we are writing about the project, which is sponsored by Sheaffer pens, […]
#7 I have looked at a number of artists over the last few months, focusing on those that create the more intricate environments or are influenced by folklore, etc. I have looked at: Ryoko Aoki: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=28546 Who creates intricate drawings […]
Pitzhanger Manor Gallery & House, Ealing, London
23 January – 9 March 2013
The London Group, founded in 1913 by artists including Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, Lucien Pissarro and Walter Sickert, is celebrating its centenary with a special exhibition featuring 100 artworks.
We talk to John Moores Painting Prize 2012 winner Sarah Pickstone, the prize’s patron Peter Blake, and judge George Shaw.
Royal Academy, London
21 January – 9 April 2012
Relationships. Relationships are such a vital point to my work, I thought it’s best to mention my relationship with two of my favourite artists: Michael Dean, an artist from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has an exhibition opening at the Henry Moore Institute, […]
Part of my interest in Modernist art comes from growing up in that context. However, a specific commitment to abstract art has followed me around, pursuing me and often annoying me! Picasso and David Hockney were prominent artists of the […]
In preparation for our Degree Show, I have been planning my biggest painting yet.It is not the likes of Picasso’s Guernica or the unbelievable scale of David Hockney’s new work (exhibited at the Royal Academy at this very moment).But it […]
Best thing of the day: grappling limply with lamps when a member of the public stops by to see what’s going on in the Project Space. The lamps have been giving me trouble all morning. A shadow has been ruining […]
Will Self on David Hockney as colourist Some time ago Will Self, reviewing a Hockney exhibition in London, spoke of how he (Hockney) was a poor colourist. For a moment I was taken aback – this was something I hadn’t […]
David Hockney at the RA surprised me. I was fortunate to go with the Leighton Project students who I work with through Action Space. We had such a great day thanks to the RA running access workshops. The exhibition was […]
Hemingway Art, Oxford
9 October – 6 November 2011
Turner Contemporary, Margate
17 September 2011 – 8 January 2012
I am always curious to see how galleries hang my ipad work. Now for the second time recently two galleries (Delta Studios and Transmission) have chosen not to mention that the work is created on an ipad using Brushes app. […]
Waiting for the winds of 70mph ripping through Scotland to drop off before I go over to Delta Studios with work for the Forth Valley Open Studios exhibition. (http://www.forthvalleyopenstudios.com/) I am submitting an installation called “Mobile Art” of an 100 […]
How to write? Just received my February a-n Magazine and I see that on p.16 an extract from my New Year’s Resolutions (Blog 15) has been quoted: ‘See more shows and write more reviews. Thinking about what we have seen, […]
Wilkinson, London
13 January – 6 March 2011
“love life i suppose” david hockney. i got to the studio this morning to find an excited atmosphere. work being made for an exhibition in october was to be photographed for print and publicity. little did i expect what was […]
Just prior to this commission I made DO IT! a series of signs that are currently located inside and outside South Hill Park Berkshire, as part of At Play (2) curated by Outi Remes and Cally Trench. The aim of […]
Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]
Sarah Harvey, Promise.
I read the October contribution to Debate by Tim Joss with pleasure. Although written for a political purpose it proved one of the most cogent and positive pieces of art criticism I have read in recent years.
To London to London – again. Printmaker friend and I and our respective spouses. Neither spouse is an artist but they have been so dutifully exposed to it all that their critical facilities have been honed beyond what they once […]
