This blog is about comics, narrative and medicine. The reason I've posted it on "Artists Talking" rather than, say, a comics site or a medical one, is that "graphic fiction" or "sequential art" (or whatever) is where I have found […]
A hugely versitile and experimental environment where process development and trial is constantly encouraged. The lectures host a wide range of experiences and skills, from international artists to extremely practically minded individuals. The course is spread over 3 years. Studio […]
Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s I was surrounded by pattern. My dad was a painter and decorator and my mum was the manageress of a fabric shop. My weekends and summer holidays were spent at a caravan in […]
Fine Art (painting) is a very open course with encouragement and facilities to enable great development into various mediums. Studio space is varied with some very good spaces available.
I thought I’d do a blog just here from home. Just working away with what I do on a day to day basis. I know I will begin to shape it for audience, how that will be shaped I’m still […]
What an opportunity; I am to visit Florence and Siena for a day each in early June. Is it possible to find an artist or artists with whom I could collaborate on a public interaction or intervention in 2 beautiful […]
I went to a meeting the other night about the Artist’s open studio trail for the next Bollington Festival in May 2009. Bollington is the town in Cheshire where I live. This is largely to chart the development of my […]
Blog reporting on the run-up to my first solo exhibition Brief Encounter, an exploration of the intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities across world-time and space-time.
I currently have a Foundation Degree in Fine Art and will now study for 1 year to achieve the B.A ( Hons) Fine Art.
This summer term I will be working in collaboration with artist Faga Cooper Keeble on a project that questions the integrity of emotions within an educational setting. We hope to enlist a group of pupils from a North London boys […]
BH Fine Art Degree.
Jumping from a tremendous height into an exhibition of Surrealist (with a Greaves influence) paintings and drawings in a Nottingham City Gallery during May 2009. I will make time for a sculpture too. I am on creative ideas overload and […]
I have been offered a one year fixed term post of Artist in Residency in the Faculty of Media, Art & Communications. I will be based at Gloucester Cathedral and have been provided with a living accommodation and a studio […]
Fine Art (Painting/Sculpture/Media)
The BUILD residency has provided me with the opportunity to research and produce work in an industrial location with specialist departments in manufacturing and the built environment. This blog will chart my experiences and the subsequent changes in attitute to […]
How creative can an artist be when working with a traditional museum? I have been artist in residence at the Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley since March 2008, and we are now on the eve of opening a new exhibition, […]
So I know it isn't New Year, but my new venture started with the New year. I decided to make a commitment to myself and to the 'What I should be doing' part of my life. I would like to […]
BA Design and Applied Art (Ceramics)
Prophecies and Deceits is part of my MA final project. I am working with language, not only through the written word but through the signs and symbols used to communicate and express thoughts and feelings. I am particularly interested in […]
A residency with The Professor at the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre, Cranfield University, UK. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.
I am studying the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at BIAD, at the fabulous Margaret street art shool. The course is a very open and broad one, allowing students to work over all areas of fine art or choose to […]
This project has enabled me to use drawing to explore the process of development: the growth of interrelations and connections between shapes, objects and people within their environment.
The Degree Show countdown has begun….., the kids have achieved more fine art upon the walls than I have managed to apply to canvas, my partner has lost half a stone and the twins are nearly feral, but hey – […]
Earlier this year I was contacted by a research student at the University of East London and asked whether I would be willing to take part in current research into creativity, creative individuals and creative experiences…
I have just arrived in Banff to take part in 5 week co-production residency programme ‘Liminal Screen’ at the New Media Institute, part of the Banff Centre. I will be developing a project that uses mobile camera technologies to record […]
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