Beyond the Body. Thinking through Process

Finished my research paper last week and folio at 2.00am this morning, with teaching prep and teaching in between, wiped out. Heater on in studio, prepare lunch and sit, listen to ‘shed shuffle’ (mixed by a cute friend) and think, return to feeling and make some art…

What can I say, it’s certainly been more than three weeks this time! I have to confess that it is difficult keeping all the plates in the air

Since I last wrote I’ve been dipping into Modern British Sculpture, ed by Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson and Perpetual Inventory, Rosalind Krauss all very useful to underpin my emerging sculptural practice

And I’ve been looking at amongst others Annette Messenger, Phyllida Barlow, Eva Rothschild and Gabriel Kuri to help find my ‘tribe’

I’ve just finished the second (three in total) critical practice paper for my MA, I wonder why I find the written word so difficult?

Although it has been very useful in helping me understand where I am in the development of my practice, it has taken me away from the actual making of work, or stalled my progress

So over the next couple of days I’m going to reflect on where I was before I wrote the paper and find a way back in or a new start….

I intend to keep artists talking ‘posted’