In the long gap since my last blog post, the snap election and aftermath have been a distraction… and life has been a bit all over the place generally, especially as every single weekend has been spent away. Lots of family stuff […]
As part of my Professional Development Bursary, I took an After Effects course so I could learn a bit more about video editing. I’d self taught myself Final Cut Pro, but wanted to be able to make my own moving […]
In my first post for this blog back in March I wrote about The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins’ theories about the origins of life, and the “exceedingly improbable” occurence of The Replicator – a molecule which had the ability to […]
It was great to visit the BA Printmaking degree shows at Brighton recently and see some of the work made by students who I’ve had the privilege to work with at times during the past three years. The shows were […]
An a-n Professional Development Bursary supported me to go to Newcastle’s ‘Moving Parts’ festival. This blog is a repository for my findings.
I’m behind with blogging! A familiar sensation – if I don’t blog in the moment, the practice can drift. So I’m picking up again, an hour or so before another meeting with Simon Haynes, my filmmaker and collaborator for this […]
Welcome to Off the Shelf, a blog charting the activities I’m undertaking during the period of my a-n Professional Development Bursary. Before I set the context, firstly; an apology. While I have only just set up this blog, I have been […]
A description of a short course I attended with the potter Tanya Gomez at West Dean College with the support of a Professional Development Bursary from a-n, The Artist Information Company
A blog charting research/activities undertaken during the period of my a-n Professional Development Bursary.
I am encouraged by the award of a 2017 a-n Professional Development Bursary to continue work around the concept of displacement, which has been of particular interest in my practice for some years. I will be able to look for […]
I should definitely do more blogging. I find it hard to keep it up sometimes when I’m busy, but when I do get into the routine of doing it regularly, I find it really invaluable to be able to pop […]
With the set-up and solution ready, I’ve been experimenting with the amount of current needed to create a viable electroforming effect. My initial experiments were less than successful. This was last week’s results: My research suggests that I had the […]
For a couple of years I’ve had this thing hanging about in my studio. It’s a paper construction made out of hundreds of small tubes of rolled up brown paper gummed strip ( I like low-tech materials). They are glued […]
A blog of my Professional Development Bursary, learning new skills in metal work and After Effects
Recording a foray into experiments with alternative plant-based materials for screen printing and DIY studio set-ups, whilst seeking inspiration from ancient civilisations and our contemporary Mexican printmaking counterparts.
I was just re-reading my blog entry and looking at those images which I’ve been thinking about printing. I suddenly realised what has been the subliminal influence underpinning the way I want to make those images look. Here again is one […]
Last night I attended my first workshop for my professional development bursary activity, bundle dyeing with local flowers and plant materials run by Babs Behan of Botanical Inks in association with Selvedge. A large element of my practice involves walking […]
Since my previous post a couple of weeks ago, quite a few things have been happening. An application I submitted for a place on a peer review session was successful: co-hosted by James Lowther of Berwick Visual Arts and North East Photography Network‘s […]
This blog will document my experiments with using colonial commodities to make new work (making inks from cacao, coffee, charcoal, mica, tea; paper from sugar cane, cotton and rice fibres)
Close up shot of the 1930s tea caddy which will feature in the film – Gift. Pace has surfaced as a major theme in my professional life. I will be talking and blogging about it some more in time (appropriately […]
“Immanence refers to those philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. Immanence is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates […]
Professional Development Bursary 2017
A migraine hovered all day on our first shoot, and I’m currently recovering under my duvet, but our first day of filming was terrific! I must confess that I love working with Simon Haynes, and our location proved perfect in […]
Last Tuesday (25th April) I had my first consultation session. I booked the community hall at Cowshill in Weardale for the whole afternoon, and turned up with tea and biscuits, a collection of biker related books (Danny Lyon’s classic The Bikeriders, […]
Looking into connections between autobiographical memory and clothing, linking art and science through research and material investigation.
Image: Untitled (STB), 2011, plaster, 30 x 12.5 x 9.5 cm (cast of inside of clothing)
