Yardsticks
Artist with a participatory, enquiry-led practice seeks an alternative to the “more people == more better” metric for measuring success.
Artist with a participatory, enquiry-led practice seeks an alternative to the “more people == more better” metric for measuring success.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here There’s the apron with all of the flowers on. Lots of stitches, lots of flowers. I like it, but until today haven’t quite been able to pinpoint why it isn’t quite right. I will finish […]
In the meantime… The studio work continues, drawings of objects made into assemblies, bringing together unusual bedfellows. Some of these had a public showing at the Blackwater Polytechnic Open Studios recently in the magnificent home of Ben Coode-Adams and Freddie Robins. […]
What generates the reality I experience? According to David Eagleman it includes: Data captured by my senses and transmitted to the brain. Information sent to the brain by my own internal model of the world – facts learnt from previous […]
What our senses pick up – light, sound, taste, smell, sensations – isn’t piped straight to the brain. Instead this information is converted into electrical signals, transmitted to the brain, sifted through to identify patterns and then re-assembled. What results […]
Sketchup offers such a quick way of constructing architectural spaces – a great new tool for me when putting together commission proposals. A scale plan of a space can easily be imported and traced, then converted to a 3D visualisation. […]
The weekend of 27th-29th August, Cheeseburn Sculpture Park opens again with another chance to see ‘En-Lighten: Taxus Baccata’ – a sculpture of steel and dichroic glass suspended in the ancient Yew tree. Amazing reflections and light patterns constantly change during […]
Thanks to the an:travel bursary I was able to complete my video project, filmed last year in Rabat, Morocco’s capital city and continue my artist networks.
This is a record of a research and development project funded by the Arts Council, uniting artistic practice with scientists, academics, architects and health professionals. The projects focus is the influence of environment on human experience and wellbeing.
On our way back home we stayed one more night in Helsinki that gave me a chance to catch up with my artist mother friend Anna Puhakka and a research visit to HIAP Helsinki International Arts Programme located on […]
As a family we have been getting re-acquainted with our surroundings and making a mental note of the places that will be of interest to the following artists’ in resident. I had plans of hand making a map although I […]
I had hoped to start this blog really positively although I have to share my reality of flying with a two year old who did not want to wear his seat belt for the last part of our flight from […]
Following the launch of this Arts Council funded project in May 2016, a new installation at Cheeseburn Sculpture Park (‘En-lighten: Taxus baccata’) opens to the public this weekend. Suspended in a Yew tree, this prismatic form transforms the space. Initial […]
Just over a year I showed two artworks made under the broad title of Following Eugène: the first was the installation of a glitter carpet in the original navy bath house building on Skeppsholmen, the second an artist’s walk informed […]
Beginning to use the CAD skills developed at KLC on ideas for a new project. Constructing spaces and placing forms within them – I can see this working really well with Photoshop, taking still images of 3D forms created in […]
It’s only been a few weeks since I last posted a blog although in this short time I feel I have forgotten how to write. This is because I have been trying to get a press release written, planned, re-planned […]
Not a daily blog! Meant to be but due to lack of internet access it has been reduced to this. It actually made the residency better as there were no distractions. Just finished Prefab-Lab with curators, Elaine Fisher and Lucy […]
I went to see this exhibition with the entirety of my bank balance, and it was completely free. Walking through Manchester Gallery you’re faced with a double stairwell symmetrically opposite one another. Paintings fixed to the wall, these paintings scream […]
PREFAB-Lab is a creative laboratory for observing, exploring and debating the artistic triangle: practice, research, exhibition.
I have seen lots of really interesting and experimental residencies popping up on my social media feeds over the past few weeks and this is helping me reflect on what We Are Resident residency could be. Idle women launched an […]