Western Wilds – an international book arts collaboration by Wirral Metropolitan College BA Fine Art and Brigham Young University, Utah. Twelve students and staff from Wirral Met are embarking on an adventure to make artists’ books responding to the wilderness […]
A sculpture to be created in collaboration with Italian Community in Peterborough.
Investigating aspects of being continuously assessed and the fascination of question-testing ourselves this blog forms part of my project and show Test taking: every, never, none. I am looking with humour at questions, responses and instructions associated with tests. […]
On this blog I aim to discuss my ideas and frustrations about being an artist and the arts rather than my practice.
This blog follows French & Mottershead’s work with Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Carolyn Rando, who will be advising us during the development of new work Afterlife … a series of audio monologues reflecting on death and human decomposition. Information about our […]
A 1.136m2 piece of land in Austria forms the centre of my ongoing project. I started off with a two weeks residency on the land where I spent time there documenting on and around the piece of land and meeting […]
A blog about my journey across research and practice through visual art and writing.
This article, running across six posts, documents a process of research funded by an a-n ‘New Collaborations’ bursary. It focuses on the initial stages of establishing a collaborative partnership with Action Space artist Linda Bell. It aims to identify best […]
Hello … :) It has been a while since I have had a blog….I decided now would be a pretty time to have one again as I’m trying to develop my work more, and gain abit more exposure as an […]
This is a deeply personal, on going project. It follows on from my degree final project, in which I focused on creating shrines dedicated to people and connecting us to those around us. Through this I become interested in the […]
How to get from a deep, unresolved project, centered on the making of a mural in an area of intense complexity in North Liverpool to the making of a film about the two year journey to this point. A mural […]
It was the realisation that I should stop being the educatee and use the experience of school, both statutory and art school, to progress my work; that, and spending holidays in catholic churches. I’m an atheist Protestant educated in a […]
Hestercombe house, a grand 90-something room building, has an odd and intriguing past. The first known residents were the Warres family in 1391 and over years the house has gone though many changes and adaptions. The last person to live […]
A blog tracing the development of a new series of works exploring the movement of objects through ludic co-ordinates.
Investigations into the verasity of surface by Alex Dipple and Josh Redman. Commencing May-July Supported by a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company.
It’s so good to be reminded I am on the right track. I will write about how as an artist I’m able to survive, what I’m involved in, process and evaluation. So yes although I create works, exhibit nationally & […]
a-n New Collaborations Bursary Award
Collaboration, experimentation, trial and error (with salt)
A research project exploring super-longevity in an age of scientific miracles.
With support from a-n i have started a new collaboration with Reenee Singh, a family psychotherapist. The aim is to develop an exchange between us which will inform the creative film process in my research for an artist’s film on […]
This blog will document and reflect on my a-n New Collaborations bursary projects, planned for the period June-October 2014. I’m collaborating with a voice/singing teacher, Lucy Legg, and an artist who specialises in video and projections, Lynn Dennison.
2014 Recipient of an a-n Re:View Bursary. Blogging about the process as it unfolds along with other practice related events.
A journal charting my change in media from painting to making art jewellery, and navigating the waters of trying to make it pay for itself
This blog documents a self initiated residency to develop work with an a-n Collaborations Bursary. Working in and with the same site, experimentation, discussion, and analysis will initiate knowledge and understanding in relation to common themes and particular conceptual motivations.