As the Elgin Marbles leave our shores on a ‘cultural exchange’ to Russia the hypocrisy of the art world, governments, dealers, collectors etc. etc. concerning the whole sordid issue of the ownership/appropriation of art works is with us once more. […]
One of an occasional series of reviews which also appear on my website when exhibitions are of particular relevance to the work. Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy: A Post Memory Perspective Chance brought me to the Royal Academy on […]
AUDIO BLOG – Please click here Forgive me if you already know this story, but a few people recently have asked how I met Dan Whitehouse…. and the story has grown recently. So it’s a story of serendipity and […]
or; Leaving London
or; How living in the middle of nowhere is making me more creative.
Brand new Gallery in Huddersfield, Unit 9 Gallery, a brand new space. I have a painting up in there, Rusted Revolutions, part of the Chaos Agriculture series.
The Gallery is at : Unit 9, Market Avenue, Huddersfield, HD1 2BB
It’s the final push for my crowd funding appeal, as it ends tomorrow. I’ve been working hard every day since 20th October promoting the project, and I’m now tired and burnt out. There is still a fair bit of money […]
So I realise that I totally left this blog hanging a number of weeks ago. I got totally consumed by two things: a very short turnaround project that arrived suddenly that I could not resist, and the decline and death […]
So I realise that I totally left this blog hanging a number of weeks ago. I got totally consumed by two things: a very short turnaround project that arrived suddenly that I could not resist, and the decline and death […]
So I realise that I totally left this blog hanging a number of weeks ago. I got totally consumed by two things: a very short turnaround project that arrived suddenly that I could not resist, and the decline and death […]
A new annual prize for art and film, launched by Amsterdam-based EYE film museum and the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, will honour artists and filmmakers who have successfully brought the two worlds together.
Portrait Steve Jobs Oil F4 33.4 x 24.2 cm. Japan
Blindness2_210x297mm_pen on paper Korea
Returning to work full time as an artist after 17 years out of the ‘scene’… this mid fifties man’s weekly thoughts and experiences of how tough it is to get ‘back in’
Today’s mini-project revolved around the notion of how we remember surface colours and how our eyes respond to light. Batchelor writes about the way in which we see colours as the property of the object. Even in different lighting conditions; […]
This is the sort of project I love; concerns from my existing practice colliding with an external provocation (in this case, to respond to the collection of Maidstone Museum) to trigger a new idea. I’ve chosen to re-imagine what a […]
Journal writing = hard work. I want to honour the work, and explore the conduits of mind, hand, pen, paper, eye, mind, hand…
