Year of the Pig
New Year, New blog charting progress in 2019
New Year, New blog charting progress in 2019
Delve deeper into the history of Chinatown in this interactive work combining Augmented Reality technology, music and storytelling. Explore Donald Shek’s immersive augmented reality world on your phone as you walk the streets of modern-day Chinatown.
Poetry needed theme emotions
Recorded spoken thoughts after a dream on the 26th august 2019
Started the year with some studies on cacti. Love the colour combinations of the green and terracotta. My style is still developing and hoping to have a varied portfolio this year. I find it very difficult working in isolation with […]
From January to March 2018, I am resident at x-church in Gainsborough. Over this period I will work with members of the different communities of x-church to develop a body of work about what it means to be a resident in this part of Britain.
A journal detailing the struggles, efforts and results of post graduate life for a would be artist.
A little introduction to me, and my plan for developing a new website during the a-n Artist Bursary period.
A pint glass half full (or half empty) with (euro) “slummy”. As in – “This machine only takes coins. Got any (euro) slummy, mate…?”[1] Non-denominational; a stretched cling-film ceiling (or floor) between myself and you – “slummy”. Cling-film, a temporary […]
an ongoing project supported by the ‘a-n Bursary 2019’
A research project funded by A-N Artist Bursary (2019).
Above image: object/detail from installation, ‘as small as the world and as large as alone.’ shown at Project78Gallery, St Leonards on Sea, 2019
research into art and sport
blog plotting my practice, life and work during 2019.
World-building, creating immersive experiences and collaborative practice.
How the a-n Artist Bursary made a difference for the prospective development of the artist
Exploring the audio that is my practice, this blog delves into the thinking behind the works to encourage dialogue whilst helping me unravel my thoughts.
In the guise of fairy tales, reality comes into focus, we are forced to acknowledge we are the authors of our happy ever after.
LEO: A-N Bursary 2019 – Research and Development
Exploring ways of making performance practice with small audiences more sustainable for artists
I completed my Level 1 Tamalpa Training in movement based expressive arts therapy in March 2018 and continued to explore the Tamalpa Life Art Process through the development of a new body of work called Body Arcana. I applied for […]
The central focus is a trip of to engage with historic archives from the 15th century epidemic witch-hunts in the South of Sweden municipality of Småland both through archives at Växjö University & working with the craft of glass-blowing at the so called Kingdom of Glass.
One of my works exhibited in the GS Axe Head to Everything show highlighted this week by Axisweb.
I was very fortunate this year to receive the AN Artist Bursary. My proposal focused on using the bursary to develop my skills working in Unity, a game design engine. Initially, this might seem like a random pursuit for an abstract painter, but all will become clear.
I applied to the a-n Artist Bursary scheme to fund a two-pronged training programme to help develop my skills as a self-taught film-maker using animation. The first part was to fund me being mentored by two artist film makers […]
A nomadic space in the real and virtual worlds acting as a for location for curated activities which explore the relationship between climate change and wellbeing.
Exploring the external physical weather and our internal psycho-emotional weather as as a metaphor