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Rebooting

8 years ago my life crashed. I’ve been rebooting ever since. Just about coming on line again now, logging in, ready to get to work.

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Resistance in the face of Aggression: Cold War Nuclear Bunker Series

A continuation of my theme “Resistance in the face of Aggression”, these pieces are based upon nuclear bunkers, primarily the Secret Bunker in Fife, Scotland which I visited and took sketches and photographs as the basis of my paintings, which are all oil on canvas.

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Mind Wandering: Best Friend or Worst Enemy? An art-science inquiry

This post is about an interdisciplinary event held last October at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, KCL. It enacts and is part of #MagicCarpet, an Unlimited Commission funded by ACE, and aims to irritate prescribed notions of (an)normality and wellbeing.

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UPPING YOUR RESILIENCE LEVELS

As an artist, photographer, writer or creative entrepreneur there’s nothing we understand more through our working life than resilience. And what is this resilience?

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Art live Outside the Hive

An artist friend of mine spent Christmas in Bangkok. They wrote to me saying: “I could not get over the tension and apocalyptic nature of the street experience I have been sensing in Asia. I started to break down the […]

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Five crazy, mad, sad, Artists

“ We owe the invention of the arts to deranged imaginations” wrote the essayist Saint Evermond in the seventeenth century” Breakfast at Sotheby’s -Phillip Hook 2018 Do you have to be deranged to be an Artist? I don’t think so […]

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Paul Chisholm…

  ” Fusing irony with allegory, Paul Chisholm creates works layered with allusions to his personal history and emotional state, subtly criticizing social and political circumstances. Utilizing his own experience as a springboard, he has built a distinctive visual language, […]

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In context Gran Fury exhibition review

Gran Fury Read My Lips – In context now Auto Italia 2nd of October – 2nd December 2018 Wow finally a show marking the historical and political context of the AIDS crisis in the 80’s and 90’s. For the first […]

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Interview with Brainard Carey

Delving into the Business of Art and How the Art world functions i’m interviewing Art Professionals trying to find out more….. First up is Brainard Carey Author, Artist and owner of the Praxis Centre an online Centre for Artists….. Please […]

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Book Review

Read all about it !  Highlighting my 5  best reads from last year. The Exform by Nicholas Bourriaud Forever and a day it feels like someone has been talking of Bourriaud and his theories on Contemporary Art and life, But […]

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suicide artists ! Crazy Kids !

“Artists as a profession are peculiar and susceptible to suicide. The solitary nature of their work and the consequent potential for disproportionate self-doubt represent a toxic combination. Oscar Kokoschka even claimed in 1923….  it as an Artistic privilege: My work contains everything […]

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Quilliance

Spreading the word about Quilling – the Art of Paper Filigree

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NEW WORK

New work by Sara Hayward RCA showing at Worcester Cathedral this summer.

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Heard the one about the gynaecologist and the artist?

Once I was a young artist raised in the sixties and living the seventies. To the art school came the man raised in the twenties and living the Reformation; he is the assessor. He sallies forth into the studio and […]

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Thinking… CONSTRUCTION

Having been recently awarded the A-N artist bursary (many thanks!), my aim is to gain new experiences relating to ideas of construction….

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T,Bag 2019 a community art project

As an emerging multidisciplinary artist I voice my explorations through the use of everyday objects, sculpture, material manipulations, metaphors and subject research.

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The curse: dystopia, diaspora & climate change in Venice

I arrived during the preview week of the Venice Biennale as a recipient of an A-N Artist Bursary 2019. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, and named May You Live in Interesting Times, I wondered if the 58th International Art Exhibition could possibly […]

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Caryl Beach

It’s all about my art practice.

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