‘Workplace’ Taking Stock : Loughborough Paul Conneally 31st October 2020 Taking Stock is a series of works linked to and emerging from artist photographer Christopher Mear’s walk to work as a retail operative. Here I transpose his walk directions from […]
All I know is that this building feels sad. It sighs. Long sorrowful sighs that travel up and down the elevator shafts. The people who work here work hard long hours. They care. The building doesn’t seem to help. It’s […]
I went to the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography at the University of Huddersfield. Before it started I had a really interesting exchange with someone who used to be a carpenter by trade and lives down the road from the […]
The post heart attack meanderings of an ordinary man in an extraordinary world.
As the idea behind Otherworld was to reimagine the lost creatures and local spirits of Blackheath, I invited Blanc Sceol to perform on The Hare and Billet Pond opposite the gallery for the opening of the exhibition. Of themselves they […]
Imagining the lost creatures and local spirits of Blackheath.
The White Box Gallery, 4 Hare and Billet Road Blackheath SE3 0RB from March 1st to 10th.
exploring psychogeographical themes in a playful, accessible way with children in a community setting. Also published at www.playradical.com
A nostalgia for a time that never really existed in the first place.
Window University of Essex, 2017, Photograph: Gillian Lock-Bowen Further to the thoughts I listed in my previous blog (20/01/17) which attempt to explain my response to visiting the campus of my first university – from a psychogeoraphical perspective – I […]
Mehretu, Black Ground (deep light), ink and acrylic on canvas, 2006, 182.9 x 243.8 cm In contrast to Zaha Hadid, for whom architecture was the driving passion and focus of her work, for Julie Mehretu, architecture – and compressed urban […]
Delving into the story of a house on a lake
I haven’t written this blog for over a month. The teaching term started, and I’ve been sucked into a vortex of emails, admin, studio teaching, not to mention childcare problems, and other juggling acts. We just got back from Barcelona […]
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been back in West London working on the textiles project, and the group have produced some wonderful work. On the last day everyone brought cakes and sweets to share from all over the world (well […]
(I started writing this a week ago but only just had time to finish.) I am sitting in my new studio. It is lovely and spacious, and noisy! I look over a busy junction below. Since I arrived today I […]
Currently reading: Turn your trash into . . . Rubbish, art and politics. Richard Wentworth’s geographical imagination by Harriet Hawkins (University of Exeter), Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 11, No. 8, December 2010 Introduction Hawkins introduces Wentworth’s practice focussing in […]
