Liverpool Carters (the last men to have worked with the teams of dock horses) needed an expert equine sculptor Judy Boyt was the obvious choice. Her Liverpool brief was to design and sculpt a life size statue to commemorate the […]
Pretty Vacant is a project being run by myself and a friend. We organise exhibitions of student and graduate work in empty public spaces. for more info please visit www.prettyvacant.org Follow our story as we embark on our second project…
Following on from my Degrees Unedited blog. I have now graduated and am embarking upon an MA. Am I still classed as a student as I’m still studying or a ‘Real” artist now that I am a Post Graduate? This […]
I shall be doing a residency at Château de Sacy in France for one month. This will culminate in an exhibition in September as well as an extended project in October. This is my first art residency yet i hope […]
I will be keeping this blog throughout my residency, looking at Froebel’s theories – his gifts and occupations and my time of residency at Froebel College.
Originally this blog recorded my progress as I worked towards my exhibition, Wanderings, at Quay Arts, Isle of Wight in June 2010. My blogging stopped as the exhibition went up, and I moved rapidly on to the all-consuming final weeks […]
The Chameleon project is built over ten prototypes (2008-2010) with a cross disciplinary group of an artist, social neuroscientist, emotion neuroscientist, affective computer scientists, technologists, human computer interaction scientists and a curator. The project investigates the scientific foundations of emotional […]
‘We drove down to the coast today. Mrs d’Alaska’s mum said we should boil the water before we went swimming.’ Colin d’Alaska, his family and friends, are a (kind of) living artwork, allowing me to investigate new methods of communicating […]
Writing about writing as artwork
This blog tracks the development of a drawing research project which explores relaltionships between activities of drawing and those other professional practices. It focuses on interrogating shared interdiciplinary enagagement with notions of ‘delicacy’ and aims to use this information to […]
I have been invited to present a solo project this August 09 at the recently launched NOID gallery on 31 commercial road. In an era of intimate relationship to objects and ownership the ‘Building my Library’ reflects linear processes of […]
All the gory details of the GSA Mutual adventure this summer at the Southside Studios, Glasgow. Written jointly by Carrie Skinner, Jen White, Amy Birchard and Juliet Fellows-Smith.
Formed in 1985 , The Sporting League has continued to thrive. Teams such as ‘Athletico’, ‘Tranquilayers’ and ‘Bayerns’ could be considered as the eternal ‘big guns’. However, smaller clubs such as ‘Universo Collunteen’, ‘Pointeso’ and ‘Novia’ have gained momentum in […]
This is me looking at how I make artwork and how others make theirs- Where do the ideas come from? Whats the theme that runs through it all? How do I know when I have my own practice?
This blog is about the 5 weeks during summer 2009 that we spent in the Caucasus making collaborative work and researching the local arts scene and the residency we attended at Art Villa Garikula in Garikula, Georgia. Supported by Artquest […]
this is carrying on from my degree show blog. now im out in the big wide art world i hope this blog will prove to be as helpful as the last at recording and reflecting on my journey.
The following diary excerpts, emails, texts and transcripts will record my extraordinary experiences as I prepare some sort of work for the next Whitstable Biennale in 2010. At the point of writing I have very little idea of what I […]
I am attempting to create a proposal for the East/West project, over a course of two weeks, during which I will be using various forms of research and developing an idea(s).
Our project ‘Red’ is a series of 3, one month residencies in 2 market towns and one city. We have been commissioned by ‘In Certain Places’ to work in the St John’s Centre, Preston, for the first month. This blog […]
this blog appears focused, but it is in fact strictly meadering
Ania Bas at Kube has invited us (WAVYBLUE artists group) to develop our ideas through ArtLab at Kube . We were inspired by meeting Ania and are looking forward to working with her at Kube.
In Certain Places artist in residence at the St. Johns Shopping center in Preston. www.incertainplaces.org
the university of derby fine art degree show in 2009 was entitled ‘departure’. this blog will hopefully be an account/diary/place for thought/intervention of the first six months of my departure from the degree process, as i find my feet, attempt […]
Vilnius is a 2009 European Capital of Culture and Artothlon, a reality show for artists, will run for six weeks over the summer. I’m in it, along with 15 others from Lithuania and abroad. Here’s a record of the project, […]
I am using this blog as a way to develop the characters that are forming within my work. Perhaps creating a different profile/project for each character, allowing them to take on their own meanings and history, with the hope that […]
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