An Arts Council funded project this new work takes the British Engineerium, once an important Victorian pumping station as the driving force to explore our industrial heritage. Instruments of Power (working title) will explore shifting attitudes towards the machine, steam […]
I intend to use this blog to help me work through my Masters Degree which I will be starting in Sept 09. I may also log my ideas/plans & previous experience before the beginning of my course.
St George’s Arts is an artist led organisation based at a redundant church in Esher, Surrey, a Tudor building which provides an inspiring setting for arts events. It hosts an annual Artist / Maker residency and is developing a programme […]
As an emerging artist I sometimes find it difficult to maintain my practice. Jobs, financial security and a social life constantly cause various distractions. Previously I have always kept my practice simultaneously to everything else I do, allowing inspiration to […]
I paint about my community and my life. This blog is to be a place where I can talk freely about my work.
I have been chosen, along with French artist Pierre-Yves Brest, to take part in Résider/Reside, a project devised by Dover Arts Development and Espace 36. The residency is based on issues around location, residence and migration. Each of us will […]
Multimedia Artist, Curator and Internet Gallery Director
My main inspiration comes from nature and wildlife
In the summer I am going to be showing in the Projection Space at John Jones ‘ Which has a long history of supporting emerging artists and contemporary art. .. ‘ I see this as a fantastic opportunity to start […]
Group exhibition at the STEW Gallery Space in Norwich featuring the work of 12 graduates (most of whom are NUCA MA Graduates). It was decided that the show would be called "WET" in reference to the Gallery's location next to […]
A cumulative performance in which I unravel and reknit the same small piece of knitting each day throughout May. I'm interested in how the yarn changes (frays, splits, crinkles) in the process, how that affects the making and the object […]
Walking Home formed the basis for my final major project for my MA. It worked over many ideas that I had developed during my degree – ideas around walking, performance, writing, and the performative installation. Walking Home was a simple […]
This blog is about comics, narrative and medicine. The reason I've posted it on "Artists Talking" rather than, say, a comics site or a medical one, is that "graphic fiction" or "sequential art" (or whatever) is where I have found […]
Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s I was surrounded by pattern. My dad was a painter and decorator and my mum was the manageress of a fabric shop. My weekends and summer holidays were spent at a caravan in […]
We’ve set up this blog because this project is about giving artists a voice in the Cultural Olympiad, and we want to make sure there’s a place for you (the artists!) to talk – to us and to each other, […]
Blog reporting on the run-up to my first solo exhibition Brief Encounter, an exploration of the intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities across world-time and space-time.
An usual art residency on the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Small Isles. Outcomes will (hopefully) include an alternative audio walking guide, a rummaging intervention in the island swap shop, and a tradition usurping mummers play with the islands […]
following a winter spent in a wheelchair after a back operation, I decided to change direction in my art practice. I needed to redefine my spacial awareness ; I have come to relate the restrictions of my condition to the […]
I am currently working on a project titled ‘Imperial Leather’.
What an opportunity; I am to visit Florence and Siena for a day each in early June. Is it possible to find an artist or artists with whom I could collaborate on a public interaction or intervention in 2 beautiful […]
I thought I’d do a blog just here from home. Just working away with what I do on a day to day basis. I know I will begin to shape it for audience, how that will be shaped I’m still […]
To co-incide with ArtsFest held in Birminham this September – a group exhibition featuring Birmingham and Bordeaux artists will exhibit at the Works Gallery. The show hopes to foster greater collaboration between the artists working in these cities. The featured […]
“Water is the eye of the landscape” Water holds a lens up to the world through which one can experience it differently. It is an element easily entered but within which one cannot survive without adaptation. How we adapt and […]
I am planning a solo exhibition about subjectivity in our choice of art. The first part is about individual choice, when members of the public will be invited to make their personal selection from a retrospective of 30+ years of […]
What happens when you paint every day?
So I know it isn't New Year, but my new venture started with the New year. I decided to make a commitment to myself and to the 'What I should be doing' part of my life. I would like to […]
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