I had a few moments of doubt and distraction this week. I was thinking about what my next print should be. My mind began to wander to all the loose ends and unresolved works I’ve made over the years and […]
The beginnings of my research have coincided with my involvement in a project by artist Sean Burn who is currently carrying out a project with/at The Art House in Wakefield. His day of talks, performance, group visits and sharing materials […]
A research & Development project exploring relationships between gender, sexuality, mental health and abject art- considering the communication of complex themes to a wide audience resulting in a new performance work by artist Rosanne Robertson.
The week before Easter I listened to a fascinating seven-part podcast called S-Town. I discovered it via this review in New Statesman – put the text aside after the first few paragraphs as there’s a spoiler alert, listened to the […]
One of the fantastic things about receiving my professional development bursary from a-n is that I can now try making a Grant for the Arts application and use my bursary as the match funding I’ll need to support the application. So here […]
Gift is my a-n Professional Development Bursary award project – and we just left the starting block! My introduction to filming and editing on professional software has begun. A first meeting with Simon Haynes – my filmmaker – involved a […]
One of the fantastic things about being able to develop my printmaking skills at the University of Brighton is the brilliant facilities and technical support available to me. I did my Fine Art BA in this department fifteen years ago […]
On 24th March I hitched a lift to Derby (only a 3 hour drive away from where we’re based in County Durham) with Lostness Club / Wideyed colleagues Richard Glynn and Louise Taylor for the launch weekend of FORMAT International Photography Festival. […]
It’s all about the development of a self-financed body of photographic work called ‘DILLIGAF’. The project began in 2005 and, in terms of image creation, was completed in 2016, but now needs a big push to begin transforming the material into […]
Blog charting progress with a photobook project, generously supported by a 2017 Professional Development Bursary
Revisiting ideas from a long period of research, I’m beginning at The Beginning, in fact at the very beginnings of life. In his book, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins theorises about the origins of life, when, in the primeval soup […]
I’m absolutely delighted to have won an a-n Professional Development Bursary to make a short film and learn editing skills on professional software. I’m especially happy that the film will focus on the British artist who was the subject of […]
I am thrilled to receive a Professional Development Bursary from a-n. The funding will enable me to learn new practical skills working with textiles in order to research and test new formats of showing photographic images. My practice considers our […]
Supported by an A-N Professional Development Bursary. Learning new skills with textiles incorporating photography and found natural objects
My bursary will fund work on filming & professional editing software to make a short film about British artist Felicia Brown’s 1932 gift to her sister “Gypsy” – a tea set from Berlin.
Throughout the posts I’ve outlined the progress of the project and the working processes that I adopted during my visits to Colne and Nelson and while developing the print-based work. Below I’ve compiled a series of images that document the […]
The conclusion of my development work for 2016, was a series of tutorials with Harry Blackett of An Endless Supply. I took to the studio, a pile of notes and sketches from my SRT classes, which I edited down and formulated into a small fold-up […]
Studio visits and mentor sessions with Darryl Georgiou formed another strand of my development this year. Darryl is familiar with my practice, and has supported the development of my work via opportunities to work with his MA students at Coventry […]
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is an innovative approach to dance and movement training developed by Joan Skinner in the early 1960s. SRT utilizes image-guided floor work to ease tension and promote an effortless kind of moving, integrated with alignment […]
With the closure of The Shop and shortage of time towards the end of the project I’ve had to reconsider the format of my final printed output for ‘Think, Question, Print’. In truth I had no concrete idea for the […]
Between August and October I produced a number of printed pieces in response to the days spent in Colne and Nelson; the development of these pieces is described in more detail in previous posts and photos of the drypoint and […]
The period supported by the grant has almost come to the end and this will be my final blog post. I stated in my application that by this point I would, possibly, have completed one finished object. Following a tentative […]
As the period of the professional development bursary comes to an end I have been reflecting on the process of sharing what I have learnt. I have tried out several different ways- conversations with friends; leading meditation classes; writing online. […]
A couple of weeks ago I participated a small event organised by the artist Mikhail Karikis alongside an exhibition of his recent work ‘Ain’t Got No Fear’. A film created with a group of 11 to 13-year-old boys who are […]
After leaving art school first time around, I really wasn’t clear what I wanted to do with the experience of the four years behind me. Some folk seemed quite well prepared and focused on what to do next, they appeared […]
