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On friday evening I used my dear old laptop at the studio to write a post but due to the computer’s age I could not upload it … now it is Monday and here it is … It was great […]

A couple of years ago I bought what was listed as a 1930’s baby’s sailor-suit on ebay. It arrived carefully pressed and folded in layers of tissue paper and the moments of unwrapping were precious. A gift from the past […]

Construction Project Day #14 Lots of people have been interested to hear whether working in such close proximity to my mum in the studio affected what either of us made on day 13. It was certainly a healthy exercise as […]

It ocurred to me that perhaps I should research other artists who have made FGM a subject for work. Paula Rego, did a series of etchings on the subject in 2009, called Female Genital Mutilation. These were exhibited at the […]

SENSING SPACES I recently went to the Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Here seven architectural practices have transformed not just the Royal Academy but also our perception of space and the potential for unexpected […]

Experimenting with Space I am becoming more and more interested in the work of Katharina Grosse. I have mentioned her work before in a previous post, but as the piece I am working on at the moment was directly inspired […]

On Monday evenings I attend pottery class. On Tuesday evenings I attend a general art class (more of a social event than a focus on developing skills). On Wednesdays I do life drawing (which is always painting) and I get […]

Loads of things on the go in the studio to pick at in turn. When an idea occurs to me, I can just do it! Freedom! But I did feel after the weekend, that I wasn’t getting anywhere. I’d done […]

Some ideas i found in The Subversive Stitch, that i feel i Can relate too and understand somewhat within my own practice. 1. Craft is art because it, undoubtedly, a cultural practice involving iconography, style and a social function. I […]

I sit here machine piecing together some fabric I’ve had for probably about 5 years, collected over a long period, from old clothing and bits and pieces, none bought new. They are making a quilt, to go with the “new” […]

Intense time working on Grants for the Arts application. We had stalled for a while, waiting to hear Torre Abbey’s response and are now rushing to submit to keep to a self-imposed deadline which gives a coherent timeline to the […]

Video’s that i put together today. Each of them silent in order to represent how beagles can not speak for themselves and how we humans are their only hope. Also it represents how their vocal cords are removed in order […]

Only The (Dark) Horses… I usually don’t take that long in between posts. Last time I went off the blog’s radar for a long while was 4 years ago, when I first joined in and started this blog. Quickly though […]

First Re:View Presentation Last week I had my first a-n Re:View meeting with performance artist Lowri Evans and upcoming producer Catherine Shaw at Contact Theatre. I used my iPad with a PDF slideshow of my past work and Manse Project […]

reflection 5: post-project blues ! Once the much-looked-forward-to opportunity is over there is a bit of a hole and that hole can be filled with the making on mental lists that go along the lines of …I should have…I wish […]

When NOT TO blog, and when TO blog, became an internal argument with myself about HOW to blog… I was accused of copping out after my last post. So while this streaming cold I have ensures my sporadic insomnia becomes […]

The Kerlin Gallery has been a big influence on my research recently giving me Callum Innes and more currently Elizabeth Magill, Mark Francis and Phillip Allen. All of these exhibit elements of paint and a relationship with paint that I […]

Triumph for the FGM campainers! Fahma Mohamed, with the support of The Guardian, set up a petition to exhort the Government to engage with schools and try to stop this horrific practice. Having got the requisite amount of signatures, she […]

Today I find myself sitting in a hotel room pondering tomorrow. I have been given the opportunity to attend the a-n No Boundaries Conference in York and so I wait for a day to see what it brings. I don’t […]

For my degree project I am going to continue to use the materials that I used for my project last year, wood and rope primarily and perhaps concrete and metal. I intend to simplify my practice to simply exploring material, […]