Monday 5th — Monday 12th of September 2016 The artwork is ready, I have spent this last week completing the recording of three Chinese singers who very kindly accepted to collaborate on this project. The recording sessions took place […]
Friday 2nd of September 2016 The structural part of the sculpture is a folded and simplified representation of the last few financial years of the Shanghai Stock Exchange; it will be made out of extruded elements of aluminium, the […]
Thursday 25th—27th of August 2016 I spent the last two days at the screenprinting studio with Faye McNulty. All test prints from the previous session have been tested at my studio, in order to assess the coefficient of conductivity; this […]
After several months of creating new work, attending mentoring sessions with Mark Devereux Projects and planning an End-Of-Residency showcase at The Gallery at St Georges, I am happy to conclude that its all made it a successful end to 2016. […]
The Ouseburn Open Studios weekend hosted an exhibition entitled ‘Process’ at the 36 Lime Street Gallery. This provided an exciting oppportunity to exhibit work in progress and some experimental models produced in the studio as part of the En’Light’en project. […]
Have you ever gone and bought something random? If you’re an artist I’m guessing the answer is yes. I have bought (like the title says) 400 bouncy balls, now sparking the idea of filling a room with bouncy balls. I […]
Thursday 18th of August 2016 Today, together with the amazing FayeMcNulty at the PrintAll studios, we tested some of the dies she prepared for the printing of the panels. As the fabric tends to stretch, and the conductive paint is […]
Thursday 11th of August 2016 The electronics that govern the interaction of the installation, will be kept safe and clean, inside custom boxes that I have put together during the last couple of days. I am building the encasing so […]
Go-Go (for Enköping) is up and running! It has been a really good experience from my initial and very casual chat with Lovisa through to cycling by it this morning on my way to and from the gym. The ‘opening’ […]
Tuesday 9th of August 2016 The super talented artist Wuon-Gean Ho has invited me to be featured in an article she will write for Printmaking Today. We initially met a year ago, when I was artist in residence at the […]
I had a meeting with Prudence Maltby and Susan Francis the other two founder members of Cicatrix. Toby Smith, the director of the Salisbury International Arts Festival has been approached about showing Catherine Farish’s Stonehenge series of prints in the 2017 […]
Thursday 4th of August 2016 Third journey to the Chinese Visa office today. Every day got me a little bit closer to receiving the document. Some signatures [missing], some addresses [missing], some apparently non-required signatures and copy of passports etc. I am […]
Thursday 28th of July 2016 The panels of the installation will be screenprinted with conductive paint. Once dry, the print will act as an electrical circuit and more specifically, as a sensor. I am planning to connect the sensors to […]
Monday 20th of July 2016 Over the past week I have been working on developing the structural component of the artwork. When I decided I would use extruded aluminium profiles, I chose to do so both for conceptual as well […]
Thursday 14th of July 2016 I am starting to receive some interest from Chinese singers based in London. If all goes well I should be able to meet with some of them over a quick coffee in order to explain […]
Wednesday 6th of July 2016 The artwork will come to life through the voices of a choir of Chinese classical singers. It is probably the most important component of the piece. From a conceptual point of view, the vices of […]
Friday 1st of July 2016 The piece I will be presenting at MoCA will be a sculptural interactive installation, which will react to the presence of the audience in the Pavilion and, when touched by people, it will conduct a […]
At the weekend I took a trip to Devon to see family. Whilst I was there I managed to squeeze in a visit to an exhibition. I headed to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (RAMM) to have […]
The last week has been packed full of artist talks including an Introduction to Feminist Art by Helena Reckitt at the Frieze Academy and Marina Abramovic’s talk at The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. I seemed to have taken a […]
