2 – 30 March 2015 Liz West’s new work Subjective Mixtures #1 created in situ for the Bloc Billboard on Jessop Street, Sheffield. West explores drawing as something not confined to two dimensions. During the creation of her work, whether making […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s a complicated business, the spinning of plates… Form filling, finance balancing, paper work straightening, diary keeping… they all take up time. Thinking about theories and concepts and how things fit together does too. When […]
The last week has been crazy! I haven’t even had a chance to blog! On Tuesday (27th Jan) I started installing my new site-specific chromatic light work Your Colour Perception at Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House on it’s […]
I was drawn to this exhibition by its intentions to loosely re-interpret a classical landscape painting in three-dimensional form. The piece itself didn’t suggest these painterly origins to me. However Cornaro also aims to explore our perception of reality, and […]
As we all try and combat the January blues (again), I find it a useful pick-me-up to reflect on the previous year hoping that it will serve up some interesting revelation. 2014 was a productive year for me; I entered […]
So I have spent the majority of my day building a bookcase. The bookcase in question is a rather lowly one from Argos. It is based on a walnut wood, although it is more like fire or chipboard with a […]
AUDIOBLOG – Click Here Last night was the end of term Songwriters’ Circle Showcase. I sang “Invisibility is not a Super-Power” I wrote the lyrics, Simon Coverdale wrote the music. For the performance, Simon played acoustic guitar, Dave Sutherland played […]
Paul Westcombe Wherever he is and whatever is to hand, Paul Westcombe will draw on it! Paul colonises places with his drawings of weird and tortured imagery, with scenes replaying themselves out on and around different surfaces, often starting on […]
Firstly I would like to start by saying that my husband thinks that I use that word far too much. But I do feel that it is warranted. Whilst doing a lot of reading for the research part of my […]
I have been continuing my experiments with coloured theatre gels and the LED light sheets I recovered from an old work earlier last week. I have been mainly just playing in my studio; arranging then rearranging the coloured acetate filters […]
Having set the bar so high recently with his Torqued Ellipses and the Gestaltkunstwerk, The Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Bilbao, the question arises as to whether Richard Serra can continually raise sculptural parameters? It is a tough challenge […]
I will be installing an inter-active sound installation for the forthcoming Bridge of Allan Contemporary Art Fair on November 1 called “Tweet a Sound”. Met up with the director of the Fair, Amy Drewery, this afternoon to discuss final arrangements. […]