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Development work and final pieces from my residency and exhbition. With thanks to Suzanne Golden, Peter Bonnell and Dr Maddie Groom of Backlit Galley, Derby Quad and the Institute of Mental Health respectively.

Gary Snyder writes of art and performance in relation to ideas of gift exchange (Back on the Fire 2007) and to me this captures the spirit of our Art Lab. This first image shows jam, made by Eve Thomas from […]

This post is mainly about my own arts process intermingled with co-produced pieces, as shown in A Private Land Art Lab. Take a look at Susan Adams for the work she developed. Although I no longer work as an art […]

It’s been slower than I hoped getting going with this residency, but I think the Happy Pills are starting to do their magic and I’m feeling more motivated to get off the sofa and do some work. This is my […]

The final events of our project are close at hand now. If you’re in the Brecon area, do come along and join us!

Participants at the workshops at Brecon & District Mind told us about a tiny but packed museum in the Old Post Office in Talgarth which they thought would have artifacts relating to A Private Land. So we made a visit […]

In the last couple of months our project has moved into a phase of intense activity with our project partners – and especially with Brecon and District Mind. The first step in planning a series of workshops was to meet […]

We are lucky enough to have the mentoring support of artist Mel Brimfield, with one meeting held at the beginning of the project and another to come later. For those not familiar with Mel’s practice, it represents a fabulous cornucopia […]

We are lucky enough to have the mentoring support of artist Mel Brimfield, with one meeting held at the beginning of the project and another to come later. For those not familiar with Mel’s practice, it represents a fabulous cornucopia […]

In mid-March Penny Hallas and I went to Powys Achives in Llandrindod Wells to see some of their extensive archive relating to the Mid-Wales Hospital, Talgarth. Weeks after our visit we are still moved and inspired by the images, reports […]

In mid-March Susan Adams and I went to Powys Achives in Llandrindod Wells to see some of their extensive archive relating to the Mid-Wales Hospital, Talgarth. Weeks after our visit we are still moved and inspired by the images, reports […]

Before our decision to work together on (A)Private Land, we knew the Glenside Hospital Museum housed an fascinating collection mostly relating to the history of mental health care and specifically Glenside Hospital, set within the grounds of the buildings which opened […]

Before our decision to work together on A Private Land, we knew the Glenside Hospital Museum housed a fascinating collection mostly relating to the history of mental health care and specifically Glenside Hospital, set within the grounds of the buildings […]

As an introduction before we say more about our project and partners in it, we’ll introduce ourselves and give some examples of previous related work.  Penny Hallas and I are both posting about the project – sometimes shared material, sometimes […]

Welcome to Dwell Awhile; a series of podcasts made by Dwell Time in partnership with the Yorkshire Visual Arts Network. In this first series we invited peer-nominated artists to talk to us about their art practice, the contentiously uncritical term […]