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.
Well, what a week I’ve had! It started with being accepted for a weeks residency at Maelor Studio in Wales for April.Looking forward to this. It’s good to immerse yourself in a new environment and paint without the everyday interruptions […]
Over the past few weeks as my residency approached I have been revisiting the mossland locations from within the scan data. This process helps me to focus on the memory and experience of being in place and then translate this […]
I’ve decided to set up some mentoring. It feels like a good time to do this now that I have a clearer sense of my research interests. I’m looking forward to the trip to York and the Dalby Forest – the […]
‘Black oil spill’ — Monday 19th February 2018 Homerton (during the black oil spill at Tottenham Hale) – River Lee – chalk marker pen on glass
My latest series of work is focusing on interiors and objects – specifically my studio and my home. So far I have been looking at my studio but to be honest, I’m not really sure what I’m doing. I’ve been […]
‘Yet we are homeless’ — Monday 5th February 2018 Hackney Wick – Hertford Union – chalk marker pen on glass
Prints and Drawings 2018
The new Camberwell Space inaugural exhibition A History of Drawing on the practice and teaching of drawing at the College for over 80 years.
This Professional Development Bursary was to pay for mentoring from curators to help me develop and contextualise my practice within current curatorial thinking. Aiming to examine and reflect on my work and make future plans for directions and potential outcomes.
Home is now — Monday 22nd January 2018 Mile End – Regent’s Canal – chalk marker pen on glass
Design is an integral part of the basketry course and our design tutor Louise Baldwin (a textile artist) has expertly led us through basic development stages from mark making through to planning of final projects. Louise is very good at […]
A long overdue post… After completing my Graduate residency at AirSpace Gallery, and working on my work for a while, I decided to take the plunge and apply for New Art West Midlands 2017. I did not feel confident enough […]
I have some work on show in the Anima-Mundi winter exhibition in St Ives at the moment. The piece shown here is called ‘Margate Imperialists 1930s’. It is about the size of A4 and is drawn with silver on gesso […]
The Thought for Food a-n professional development bursary was in part allocated to curatorial feedback and with a growing body of work, the time is now right to gain some feedback. For me, this is a vital part of the process, I […]
Intent: September 2017 My practice has been challenging epistemological questions, investigating how perception and experience can be rendered through drawing; my investigations thus far, which have focused on the layered language of line, serve as my starting point for the […]
A Mindfulness Exercise, Written For You Epistemological philosophers have been theorising upon how we know for a very long time. Over the coming minutes I invite you to see how I see, and reflect on the type of experience that […]
Had a wonderful day in The Kings Wood last week with fellow Woods to Where Else artists. It was such a luxury to participate in a workshop rather than organise, deliver or run one! So we were out in the woods thinking about […]
I wanted to explore making drawings using tarnish from metal objects. Silverpoint drawings have a beautiful, delicate quality to them, and also cannot be erased in the same way pencil can. I decided to experiment with making basic marks onto […]
