Distractionism
This is a blog post about my emerging way of Art or process.
This is a blog post about my emerging way of Art or process.
A two-week interdisciplinary residency to focus on my practice at the arts organisation Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland. During this time I will be focusing on developing new artwork for the ongoing project Bummock: Tennyson.
I’m a brand new member
Function/Error is a performative experiment on the impossibility of completing a task due to the health and safety regulations on ladder usage. The impractical safety rules forced a humorous response that involves the performance of a useless action.
How on earth does art get funded…
The blog records the progress of bursary supported action research with artist Ruth Jones, connected to “The Agency of Visible Women” project.
16mm Experiments with Erehwon Lab
Can my socially engaged method of working usefully engage with my local community, artists and organisations?
Reflections on the RESEARCH part of my R&D project, funded by Arts Council England over 2019.
With funding from an A-N bursary I met and interviewed five sculptors working in the field of ceramics.
This year I have launched a new contemporary collection in glass named ‘Molten Landscapes’.
As a multidisciplinary artist, I have begun to merge my two artistic passions, painting and Glassmaking.
a blog about my artist residency at Furzey Gardens, New Forest, Exploring creating new work in response to the environment.
Six months at BilbaoArte supported by an AN Bursary
I’m currently working on a new moving image kindly supported by England Arts Council and London Creative Network (Space studios). This work is taking me back to the Scottish Highlands, where I am using a combination of black and white and hand-coloured analogue footage.
Looking forward to undertaking professional development and mentoring with experts that will advance my arts practice to explore Virtual Reality (VR) as an art form, as opposed to using it as just an emerging technological tool. My proposed bursary activity […]
Why I applied for an AN bursary and how it is helping create a stepchange in my practice.
A space for the research and progress of creating purely language based video, for my existing text ‘Home is now’ – part of my placement on the London Creative Network (LCN) via SPACE. I will also record my development during the LCN programme
A live run/artwork across Greater London from West to East over 3 days following the river Thames. In partnership with APTGallery and Totally Thames 2019,
Artist Anji Archer and myself are currently running an Arts Council England funded project called Open Art Box. This pilot project is to run eight drawing workshops at Stevenage Museum for those in the community living with early-stage dementia and their carers.
A space for my ideas towards ‘Fool’s Gold,’ an Art’s Council Funded two-person show at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum – if all that was left of humanity was the things we made, what would be our legacy?
Hortus is a project which involves research into early practices of collecting and cataloguing as exemplified by the sixteenth century botanic gardens and libraries of Padua (IT) and Leiden (NL).
A call for an artist on the board of every arts organisation.
In the guise of fairy tales, reality comes into focus, we are forced to acknowledge we are the authors of our happy ever after.
About being a disabled artist late in life
A journey into Englishness, from the Thames to the Lakes, industrial heartlands to chalk downs. Following tides and twittens, writing 100 poems along the way.
Those with a history of contact with mental health services have sought representation, support and advocacy for centuries. Service user advocacy groups are varied in nature: from grassroots to national, informal to Miss Havisham’s wedding dress made by me in 2012 now on show