Work in Progress
Over the next year I will be working towards an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. I’m sure that there will be many highs and many lows as I get to grips both with my course, and […]
Over the next year I will be working towards an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. I’m sure that there will be many highs and many lows as I get to grips both with my course, and […]
we have space, we have artists, we are developing a presence in southampton, we have an exhibition open at the moment. lots to catch up and reflect on.
The story so far…Having moved to Brighton in August 2010, to start an MA in Fine Art at Brighton University, my first term featured, amongst other things, a temporary but disfiguring skin condition and an overwhelming sense of disorientation. I […]
As I move through a 2 year MA Art and Design in Education course at the Institute of Education, London. How my work progresses in finding connections to understand, grow and progress whilist focusing on play, participation and social engagement. […]
This blog has been set up to coincide with my residency which is at Armley Mill, Leeds between October and December 2010.
In 1828, my ancestor Stephen Hedges was transported to New South Wales. On this residency in Newcastle, Australia, using themes from my research (the past and the present; history, myth and reality; imagination and the landscape) I’ll examine his story […]
Award-winning sculptor Laury Dizengremel, also photographer, designer & art project consultant begins a 14 month residency in the Vale of Belvoir on the Lincolnshire / Leicestershire border in the East Midlands. Besides modelling busts of the Duke and Duchess of […]
In November artists Joss Burke, Graham Chorlton, Peter Grego, Myfanwy Johns and Tom Ranahan will exhibit new work in Bordeaux. Invited to take part in the Art Chartrons Festival in the French city by Francis Viguera (President of Art Chartrons […]
Pigeons are a kind of disruptive anomaly amongst the order of the city, and yet they usurp the order whilst being a part of it. Surely the best means of rebellion/subversion; become a part of the system you aim to […]
A collection of my works, and texts to inform
What happens when siblings who get on really well in general but argue (let’s be frank here) frequently about art decide to confront their differences for a joint exhibition? Through a process in which my sister and I make work […]
Some of my projects are months in the making. Some just launch without thought. My recent Twitter project (#ADailySelfReflection -a self-portrait every day) is certainly a case of jumping before looking, but I am following instinct as a means to […]
“The Hot Chestnut Man sees Paul Conneally running a Hot Chestnut stall outside The Institute of Ideas’ “BATTLE OF IDEAS” which will be held at The Royal College Of Art on the 30th and 31st of October 2010″
This blog will follow the performance project The Customer Is Always Wrong, from planning it in the UK, making and showing it in China and then adapting and presenting it in Europe.
A Graduate fellowship in Paper at Northumbria University…A place to bookmark my experiences, musings, trials and errors.
after finishing university this summer, i chose a risky move to a city little known to me. the adventure and fresh challenge has forced me to contemplate location and habitat whilst searching for my place within the art world as […]
This blog will document my own experiences throughout a 20-day new media art residency in the grounds of Writtle College (Essex). Working alongside CADE (Centre for the Arts and Design in the Environment.), plant scientists and students.The work is funded […]
My hope is that this blog will document and aid the development of a body of work that responds to the experience of living and working on the fringes of the Olympic site. The blog and the work will be […]
After a difficult year with many hurdles i hope to be able to pull myself out of a creative rut. I realise this won’t happen instantly but I hope it happens soon. This blog will act as my creative journal […]
A personal view of working and exhibiting in the 6th Liverpool Independents Biennial
Sound Circle is the first stage of an interactive illuminated night-time labyrinth, planned for 2011. 60 illuminated ‘tree totems’ will be created by children from the Forest Schools project in Corby, Northants and installed at the end of October 2010 […]
A mobile exhibition wanders around a city late at night. A news photographer captures the event.
i won an a-n bursary to make a film in response to the john moores painting prize
This is the real world. I’ve left Uni and now I have to fend for myself, in a world that has changed a lot in a couple of months. I find myself living in a new town surrounded by less […]
As I settle back into life in a small semi-rural village, light years from the notion of contemporary art, I intend to examine and record, how I fare as an artist in the real world despite being penniless, unemployed and […]