A collaborative research project with Carolyn Lefley (artist) and Keir Strickland (archaeologist) recording an art/archaeology survey of the abandoned island of Swona, off the Orkney Islands, in August 2014. This blog records our preparations/research/findings.
this blog plots an awakening after my attendence of a big lunch extras camp in july 2014
Tampere Artists´ Association rents living and working facilities at Takahuhti Artcenter for visiting artists, curators, critics and alike. The building is a former old people´s home and it is owned by the City of Tampere.
1.Yes, I saw both in one day, so an interesting juxtaposition.
Sharing thoughts and research related to ‘Tangled Yarns’, an Arts Council England – supported solo exhibition exploring the politics of the global textile industry through time. ‘Tangled Yarns’ launched at William Morris Gallery and then toured to Cromford Mills.
I am collaborating with choreographer Darren Ellis to explore concepts of constraint, confinement, resistance and adaptation. A common interest in how circumstances restrict and determine behaviour led us to develop scenarios for movement within a network of stretched elastic.
This piece will be a record or trace of my travels around the UK, as I visit a number of the UK-based artists involved with the Revolve:R project, in their home-cities including Bristol, Liverpool, London, and Glasgow.
Artist. Hermit. Differently-abled.
Experiments in truth, purpose and intent.
Literature for Children
If one year equals 7 dog years; Me and Cosmo embarked on our middle age together, and I looked to him for inspiration for a new body of work!
‘Welcome! Drawing your attention: to spatial metaphor and mythopoeic laboratory’ I am here to reflectively ponder about my current research project where I use myth and permaculture to explore the many facets of Sustainability and the nature/culture continuum. I will […]
From design and plan of the building, to moving in, setting up and getting down to ‘making’, this blog explores my journey towards a studio of my own.
Capernwray is an incredibly fun site to dive at. I can remember my first time in there. I completely forgot I was meant to be paying attention to the instructor, instead gawking at the trout all around me. It felt […]
Am I an artist who writes or a writer who makes art? Are these hybrids even possible? Should I even have a blog here? I was hoping you might tell me…
For the last year I have been working as a healthcare assistant at hospital, but due to a number of reasons I have become very unhappy working in that job, to the point that I was always miserable. So I quit my day job and am now on the journey back into self employment.
Daydreaming my way through classes, I feasted my eyes on the saints that were an example to us all. “Die damn you” seemed to the overarching message, “die and really start enjoying yourself”. I asked one of my sisters what […]
Follow the progress of my residency with Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. The residency will see the development of participatory cross-stitch project, as well as a large scale cross-stitch piece by the artist.
As an artist I have used narrative in various ways my whole life. I just want to hold the idea of narrative art up to the light a bit by having conversations with artists in the UK and internationally who love and work with stories.
Blogging through the journey of an emerging artist.
Have just finished a new work, where we got the public playing Wiliam Tell on harmonicas on the street. It is to promote happiness and well being. It was kinda interesting to see how involved the public got in the project and how easy they were to convince.
Exhibition at the Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, 5th – 17th August 2014
Art of the School collage portfolio
Here he is, St Peter Chanel of the Staffroom; saving the souls of wayward convent girls and having his head stoved in for unsolicited missioning. How the nuns fluttered when men came a visiting; how they loved a Christian […]
Portraits of trees etched onto paper made from their own leaves. An exciting collaboration between two printmakers.
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