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Detroit on my mind

There was a feature on the radio about new film celebrating the life and achievements of education reformer Anna Whitlock. Listening while making breakfast my mind wandered to who I might make film about … Eugène Jansson of course! I […]

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Still following ….

Eugène Jansson, 18 March 1862 – 15 June 1915   Eugène Jansson, self portrait, 201 x 109 cm, 1910   Eugène Jansson, I, 101 x 14 cm, 1901   Eugène Jansson, self portrait, 32.5 x 32.5 cm, c.1880   I […]

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Beyond Naked Youth

I let my mind wander and fantasise about Eugène’s Naked Youth (1907). How much can (or should) I read into the painting? The man stands in a doorway – on a threshold. This is not merely a conceit for a […]

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Running with an idea … or two

On my run this morning I found myself thinking about the large street-facing window of the gallery where I will be showing later this year. The gallery is at a traffic-light controlled crossing, the pavement is particularly narrow in front […]

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Following Following Eugène

Just over a year I showed two artworks made under the broad title of Following Eugène:  the first was the installation of a glitter carpet in the original navy bath house building on Skeppsholmen, the second an artist’s walk informed […]

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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"

There is still so much material that I have for/from Following Eugène.  This week I presented a site-specific installation and lead an artist’s walk for the end of the Take a Walk on the Wild Side course, and yet it […]

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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"

Tomorrow I am going to meet two fellow a-n bloggers!  Elena Thomas and Wendy Williams are here with their group show.  It will be the first time that I have met them, and my first experience of meeting people who […]

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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"

I am starting to feel rather anxious about the end of year presentations for the course that I have been taking at Mejan.  I have thoroughly enjoyed Following Eugène however I am not sure that what I have to present.  […]

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