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Filming
Filming in the ‘home studio’ today – the second take for a section of a new video work. I adjusted the lighting and the framing. Working from home again on video projects is good in some ways. I don’t have […]
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Return
Another long gap since last posting on this blog! Another change in circumstances affecting my artistic practice. My temporary studio space reverted to commercial status in December last year so I have been in a period of re-adjustment. My current […]
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Testing…
Lots of time spent resolving technical matters – as usual. The video jack in the projector no longer works, so testing with laptop connected via VGA cable! At least it works.
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Body: Capital #1
After a long absence Body: Capital returns! Following about 18 months of engaging barely at all with my art practice, due to family commitments, I finally began to re-connect in April of this year. I moved into a temporary studio in […]
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Untitled blog post from "Body:Capital"
Yesterday I actually managed to get out and do some work on an idea I have had for a while. It’s half term so I’m not tied to having to do everything during school hours and my son is happy […]
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Untitled blog post from "Body:Capital"
Disarming the Dead This evening I re-read a chapter from “The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death” by Timothy Taylor, 2002, Fourth Estate. The chapter, An Unexpected Vampire, recounts the post- mortem isolation of a prostitute who died in 1933 […]
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Untitled blog post from "Body:Capital"
I have been thinking a lot this week about my physical location – where I actually spend a large amount of my life. How it impacts on my being an artist. The shadow of the former mining industry has a […]
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Untitled blog post from "Body:Capital"
“That the accused persons, mostly poor themselves, were not responsible for this economic suffering was beside the point; they were perceived as the cause, and that perception sufficed to justify scapegoating them.” From Witchcraze: A New History of the European […]
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I am starting this blog as a way of documenting and sharing my research. At the weekend I was in Norwich setting up at an exhibition at Hungate Medieval Art, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Norwich which is […]