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A space for review and reflection of my own practice and others.

Since leaving the Royal College of Art 4 years ago, after the wilderness of life after college, after many struggles, through much determination to engage with artists and the art world, I finally feel part of something…..an arts community, a […]

Chris Barham, with my assistance, is creating an interactive installation. Our interest lies within the terrain of self-generated audience participation. Can an artwork or environment present a situation in which the viewer feels safe enough, or enticed enough to engage […]

In the north (subarctic), for 10 months of the year, in a fly-in community, teaching grade school classes. The internet connection is a line to the outside. This blog will be a place to record, visually and textually, the paintings […]

In conversation…Working collaboratively both as an artist, artist-in-residence in a school and as project manager of a touring exhibition.

Artists Steffan Jones-Hughes and Jeanette Orrell are working towards the Christmas exhibition at Oriel Myrddin, in Carmarthen. THe exhibition is called Coedwig, which is Welsh for wood or forest. It’s a mixed show which will open on 5 November 2011. […]

POST, a collective of female artists based in Liverpool have been awarded a go and see bursary from a-n. Follow POST as they develop international links, starting with the European Capital of Culture 2009 – Linz, Austria.

the snee snaw is an audio kinetic artwork that takes place in a non traditional art space and encourages players to work together to find the elusive sneeze condition. the project is funded by the arts council through the grants […]

This blog looks at the benefits and pitfalls of working in isolation. One significant aspect of this isolation is a rich and deepening understanding of art history. I’ll explore that relationship to my work, my practice and my efforts to […]

This blog will be a record of learning a new language, Spanish, as a beginner. It is an attempt to understand the significance to my art practice of my background as a linguist through the activity of learning. It will […]

I’m going to try and sustain a blog over the whole course of a project… for the third time! Invisible City is an event taking place in Schiedam, NL 2-4 September 2011 and i’m involved. Claire Weetman, Invisible City- New […]

An account of my preparation for and participation in Artisterium 4, the international contemporary fine art event in Tbilisi, Georgia, November 2011.

I won the Oval House prize for my degree show performance ‘cartrouble’ this summer as i completed my degree at Chelsea. It came as a shock and I was rather overwhelmed by the news, as the day of the private […]

The story so far…Having moved to Brighton in August 2010, to start an MA in Fine Art at Brighton University, my first term featured, amongst other things, a temporary but disfiguring skin condition and an overwhelming sense of disorientation. I […]

‘Ways in’ for dancers and artists to the complex conversation happening between dance and visual art. The influence of dance on other artforms was recently highlighted by a series of major exhibitions: ‘Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets […]

Documenting a year of hosting six regional artists at Standpoint for our visual art development residencies. Alongside studio project, presentation and talk, Standpoint offer resident artists a programme of meetings and visits with curators, artists and writers to develop their […]

Over the next year I will be working towards an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. I’m sure that there will be many highs and many lows as I get to grips both with my course, and […]

The ‘Pariah Temperament’ (Alethea Hayter) has started the basis for recent printwork and book design projects. A now part-time MA student studying Art, Design & the Book currently deciphering what Action Research means to artists and in terms of my […]

I start a residency at the Millennium Centre in Leasowe, Wirral on Friday 10 June. This blog is about the ups and downs of being there. 

A public billboard commissioned by Trinity ∴ viewable 24/7. As part of Add To My Library pays tribute to John Latham’s book relief sculpture which penetrates the window fronting Flat Time House. Trinity ∴ 310 Creek Road, Greenwich, London SE10 […]

This blog follows and explores my Artist Residency at the Bond in Birmingham. THe residency is for a year and I will be creating a body of work, living and working on site and exhibitng along the way.

Following on from my Degrees Unedited blog. I have now graduated and am embarking upon an MA. Am I still classed as a student as I’m still studying or a ‘Real” artist now that I am a Post Graduate? This […]