Stuart Mayes
Artist living and working in Uppsala, Sweden and very occasionally London
Fashioning my universe from the material of other men's lives and a good amount of glitter. www.stuartmayes.com @studiostuartmayes Uppsala & LondonThe chill in the air together with the mistyness and running unknown roads put me in mind of Riga. I am in Köping, Västmanland where I will be running a workshop today in conjunction with the official opening of the […]
Working in Enköping already feels as though it was the distant past, it is actually only two and half weeks ago that my sabbatical began. I enjoyed the three day week that I worked there in late July though […]
Day 0 Monday and my first day as a full-time artist … and the day before my sabbatical officially begins. I am very excited about the coming year. There are number of concrete … definite …things that I want to […]
Things that I have done: Watched the clouds Helped carry the lamp through the city Forgotten my wallet Stood close to art four exhibitions Laughed out loud Spoken with strangers Chatted with friends Been to the sauna Walked on […]
Rest. I have been in constant motion for the last year – barely a day has passed where I have not had something to do, somewhere to be. Now I am at rest … resting … it feels essential. Returning […]
Skanör, Skåne Yesterday at the beach I sketched the leaden cloud … clouds … that filled the sky and hung heavily over the sea. Did I sketch because I wanted to or because I felt that I should? Intellectually I […]
Yesterday I laughed out loud, several times, in a gallery … I can’t remember the last time that I did that. The show, a retrospective: Roman Signer at Malmö konsthall. I ’kind of knew’ his work … from some group/thematic […]
It’s been two weeks since I worked in Enköping – I have three working days remaining (in the last week of July) before my sabbatical starts. This time away is time-in-lieu for working full-time most of June. Even after the […]
It’s so nice to be here at the studio having been to the gym – the start of my day feels wonderfully familiar … or rather like a very welcome return to my preferred routine after several weeks … a […]
It was frustrating not to have time to write when I have felt the need to write over the past week. I have to believe that anything truly meaningful will re-emerge in my thoughts … at the moment though I […]
I haven’t really had time to catch breath since returning from Supermarket. Today I have to start tackling those not absolutely urgent things that are fast approaching urgency … or perhaps that odd state where if things aren’t done […]
Supermarket is an amazing event … what struck me most this year are the opportunities that it offers … perhaps I am particularity alert to this as my sabbatical year fast approaches … as I think about the direction of […]