
Inedible Culinary Exercises
A journey to discover the possibilities of food without the need to actually eat anything.
A journey to discover the possibilities of food without the need to actually eat anything.
After finishing the MFA course at Goldsmiths in August 2012, I vowed not to return to facilitating workshops in schools. Seven months of fruitless job searching later (part-time, well-paid please) and here I am again, working freelance as an art […]
Where pixel meets stitch: deconstruct – reconstruct, this blog aims to chart a joint venture between Elena Thomas and Bo Jones as they prepare for a show in October 2013 examining their preparations and developments.
Read all the blog posts over the last couple of years. Deleted them. Next is the website. May even clear the studio and start all over again.
I am exploring how extending the horizontal line as the first act of description can act as an underscore to dwelling, empowerment and anti hierarchal but architectural art in unexpected sites, non-spaces and edgelands. Work uses installation, film, performance and […]
From mid January 2013 – 1st Sept I have been awarded the chance to be artist-in-residence at The Muse Gallery, 269 Portobello road, London
I left a secure job in 2012 in teaching to focus solely on my art practice and see what happens. At the same time I took on an allottment. My plot is no 39.
I am the Artist starting out, this is my journey for good or bad, my work, my learning curves and directions that I will take. I have a lot to learn and will share what I find to help others […]
My current research process for transforming Burning the Books – a live intervention project interconnecting debt, sin, absolution and payback – into a touring work, after a recent successful GFA for R+D from the Arts Council. One artistic approach to […]
Blog following my residency at the Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London, which runs from 21 January – 1 February 2013
Short, sweet and to the point.
Having come late to art, I am driven by the need to do, make, live art. Now. Before it really is too late.
This is Art now
The aim of this blog is to document the development of my work and ideas, as I respond to the Joseph Wright collection at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Invited by Synapse Arts, Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Derby […]
I am a concpetual artist who makes work about death and religion. I am preoccupied with ideas of mortality and the way this clashes with my atheist beliefs.
Time alters perception, which alters memory, the boundaries and lines between events blur and the mind fills in gaps which are either no longer palatable or have been forgotten and erased. New truths are always being rendered, realities re-defined, ones […]
Floor Plan for an Institution is a durational collaborative project, whereby artists & curators from 5 artist-run spaces based in the West Midlands have been invited to contribute to the design of a speculative artist-run institution within the Meter Room […]
I was awarded the Metal International residency to Shanghai as part of the Liverpool Art Prize and was in residence for four weeks in the city during November 2012. This blog now charts how works begun in Shanghai continue to […]
I have been selected to participate in the AA2A residency at the University of Salford and I will document the experience on my blog. The AA2A project provides placements for visual artists and designers in Higher and Further Education institutions […]
In this blog I hope to sort through some ideas, discuss some processes and engage in a dialogue with you about art, so feel free to comment.
Two anonymous women slash and repair three interchangeable bodies at the whim and fancy of the audience; who is in control?
Having just completed my Masters at BCU in Art Practice and Education I find myself wondering “what comes next?” and searching for new ideas and inspirations to challenge and stimulate myself. Back in my classroom, the realisation that I can […]
What is the relationship between I and we?
How can creativity connect and empower us?
Exploring these questions via a socially engaged art practice to try to effect change
Ramblings of life after graduating from a fine art degree and working in the education sector.