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This blog charts my 2019 a-n Bursary trip in The UK looking at Automata models and movements, and learning new wire skills. It’s a physical journey, but also a time of movement and change after illness and travelling towards a new artistic practice.

As a twenty-year-old working-class lad from Hull, I looked into a mirror in the back bedroom of my parent’s council house and drew myself (above). Capturing a moment in time with a simple pencil. It wasn’t bad. It showed some […]

As a teaching artist, I am always looks for ways to improve the quality of their drawing and painting skills, as well as their well-being.

2 week R&D residency at the international Centre for Choreography, Dance4, Nottingham 1-14 July. Supported by A-N-Bursaries.

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

It’s been 1 year since my #MagicCarpet was launched at the Art Workers Guild, when we unpacked the term ‘neurodiverse art’. Since then, there’s been a mini-explosion of activities tagged ‘neurodiversity’ in UK arts & academia, but, or hence, the term remains contested.

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?

out and about with the Fruit Factory Network based at Humber Street Gallery; encountering, reflecting, acting…

Mixed media paintings using collage and palette-knife-applied acrylics

Exploring ways of making performance practice with small audiences more sustainable for artists

This blog charts the progress of my project ‘Seaworthy Vessel’, an ongoing participatory project that uses the concept of seaworthiness in ships as a metaphor for emotional resilience in the face of physical trauma in people.

Spreading the word about Quilling – the Art of Paper Filigree

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.