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Good start to 2013 Been a bit busy since the Christmas/New Year break. Hung my exhibition at Low Sizergh Barn, attended the preview last Friday. Good write up in the local paper which created some aditional interest. Preview went well. […]

I am really pleased with how the Ljusfältet evening here at Wip:konsthall turned out – a good and fitting start to the New Year! The whole idea of doing something in early January is appealing; something to mark the arrival […]

The past week has been hectic, which to be honest is the same as most weeks; show installing, teaching, PV visiting, studio time, admin, writing, social engagements, family things etc. These are all great things to be doing – except […]

Today I re-read the biography I used recently for an exhibition at S1 artspace in Sheffield in order to help write a new text for the show at Derby Museum. It really has helped me to write more clearly about […]

To teach is to perform. To teach is to be an example (turning into Bo Jones – be afraid!). Maybe this is why sometimes I rail against the fact I teach. I must be an example. I should be respectable. […]

‘A circulation of gifts nourishes those parts of our spirit that are not entirely personal , parts that derive from nature, the group, the race or the Gods’ (Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and The Artist in the Modern World’) […]

2012 has been a rather challenging year, sign of the times-stuff to deal with on top of being unwell, and it’s important to remind myself of what has been good. Posting as part of Artists Talking is in my top […]

I attended one of the ICA Friday salons last week, the topic was professional development, the target audience young artists just leaving university and blinking fearfully in the harsh light of the real world. As I wasn’t the target audience […]

Last night I read an article published in last Thursday’s Scotsman entitled ‘Artists forced to survive on £100 a week’ reporting on findings by the Scottish Artists Union (SAU) that three -quarters of visual artists in Scotland are earning less […]

AN IDEA FOR COLLABORATION Draft dissertation given in. Can now concentrate on Studio Practice. Sophie has agreed to collaborate with me so can now explain what it’s about. My painting project is about expressing an emotion or feeling rather than […]

It’s been a week to stay indoors, even if that indoors has mostly been as cold as outdoors. I have had a day and a half in the studio sorting through my collected finds. I realise now, fail to organise […]

Currently reading: Jo Applin – Bric-a-Brac: The Everyday Work of Tom Friedman, Art Journal 67.1 (Spring 2008) pp.69-81 http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_luhringaugustine_com/ArtJournalSpring2008.pdf Abstract: L’Invention du quotidien (The Practice of Everyday Life) .4 The significance of Friedman’s work lies in the conceptual strategies of […]

Me Then Now is quite demanding and its strength is showing forcing me toward a difficult decision: persevere or give up? I believe the work has value. The most readily accessible part is the making of ephemeral portraits on a […]

Things are hotting up at college with tempers fraying and panic mounting. We have only got two weeks left of term and have to hand in a body of work together with a report on our practice. We also have […]