The second day of preparations for excavation, uncovering Trenches T and J. The tyres are removed using a long line or people to roll them to where they will be stacked. The tarpaulin is pulled from the trench and laid […]
The first drawing of the day. The first actions for the archaeologists is uncovering the site by removing all the car tyres that have been holding the tarpaulins down. This is followed by bailing out very unpleasant water. Finally the […]
Preparing to go back to Orkney for my third Artist’s Residency on the Ness of Brodgar. After three days on the road, journey’s end with the ferry to Stromness. Sailing past The Old Man of Hoy, with a strong wind despite the […]
The weather was glorious and really hot in the sun but cool in the shade and breezy wherever I stood. I needed a day or at least an afternoon of making work for various reasons (health and stress related) so […]
It has been a particularly busy month. Family arrived over from New Zealand, my sons had exams and in the middle of this I was involved in 2 consecutive weekends of Open Studios. This is my first Open Studios as […]
A Technical Report on Drawing as Octochronoplasmantic Evidence || Meta-Neuronic Design for Impossible Theatres
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Ed Ruscha at the National Gallery, London, sound installation at Richmond Chapel, Penzance, and a drawing show split across Modern Art Oxford and the Drawing Room, London.
On the 21st of June, I’m showing some work at the Width of Circle, a new, artist-led, gallery, studio and teaching space in Stourbridge on the furthest western edge of the Birmingham conurbation. Solstice is a collection of drawings made by […]
Long distance walks through beautiful places, looking to capture what I see and how I feel
More, drawing, more studio time – more blogging. I have interspersed this post with several images of the work I have been doing since my last major post alround a year ago. It is by no means exhaustive but […]
So, where to begin? It has been a long time time since my last post…a very long time. Happily I have not been at a total standstill practice wise…in fact I have been pretty busy over the last few months […]
‘Haecceity is the becoming individual from having been undifferentiated. It is something very concrete, a thickness, like a drawing, and describes a process of individuation, like when drawing.’ http://ojs-lib.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/748 As previously explained the concept of Haecceity stems from the philosopher […]
My life is on fast forward again. Well is it ever anything else? So hard to say no to any opportunity and so very conscious of time running out. ‘We only have one life so use every moment’… such a […]
I recently took the four-hour train journey from Margate to Salisbury to see an old drawing of mine which is on show at The Young Gallery. I’ll be showing more of my work there later this year but for now […]
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Tate Britain launches new series of Late at Tate Britain nights for 2018, performance artist Toto Kisaku given political asylum by the US; ICA Philadelphia becomes first museum certified by W.A.G.E.
This blog shares my experiences as the inaugural Artist in Residence at Tower Bridge throughout 2017. As the residency ends, I reflect upon the year long development of my multidisciplinary practice.
