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Drawings created while walking repetitively around the outside of the house

Since so many of us globally are confined to our homes and gardens because of Covid-19 pandemic. I thought it would be an opportune time for self-reflection, hence the title, ‘Confessions of a Garden Hermit’.

Art and environment – where art is used to connect people with nature

Strategies for creativity when the world is in chaos

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

Commissioned as artist of the north to work with environmental organizations to help protect some of the most endangered species in England.

This week on the blog, I calm down and get reflective after a month or two of slightly frenzied painting output.
And actually get around to writing on my blog.
I know. It’s been a while.

This summer I’m experimenting with non human drawings. Paper is taped to a hanging tray and a pen placed above that in free movement. The tray is loaded with enticing bird treats. The wind and the birds make the drawings.

An exploration into the desexualised accumulation of female forms

I have spent months addressing the perception of the female. That a woman with intelligence is powerful. That a woman with power is dangerous. That a woman must be stopped from thinking about power. That a woman must be stopped […]

Convid-19 has stopped flights. Will cheap flights start again after lockdown? – Should they?     I think not. For 10 years I have worked with a theme of flying. Can I go on?

working with an online community i orchestrated an interactive documentary (idoc) about walking through the pandemic.

the project has been gratefully supported by a grant from arts council england emergency response fund

digital research made possible by a grant from the arts council’s covid-19 emergency fund for individuals.

Celebrating synchronicity and queer community, with reference to Alan Turing, AL & AL, Allan Horsfall and Islington Mill.

Why Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture ‘Quarantania, I’ has new-found relevance in our lockdown life.

Here are my notes (09/2019-05/2020) of the framework of ‘artful leadership’: artful+novel ways forward led by (neurodivergent) thinkers/makers embedded within socio-political structures to catalyse social/cultural change amid COVID-19+ future novel challenges.

Impressions in buildings and impressions in sculpture

This project is in tandem with the blog: “Locked down into Paying/Denying Attention”.
I intend to access a beach that has no official access.

Disengaging from The Attention Economy to plug into something/anything else, and then… blogging about it.

Casting my own body as a ritualistic form of unerstanding