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This project has enabled me to use drawing to explore the process of development: the growth of interrelations and connections between shapes, objects and people within their environment.
This project has enabled me to use drawing to explore the process of development: the growth of interrelations and connections between shapes, objects and people within their environment.
The Degree Show countdown has begun….., the kids have achieved more fine art upon the walls than I have managed to apply to canvas, my partner has lost half a stone and the twins are nearly feral, but hey – […]
The Art & Anatomy “Student Selected Component” in Medical Humanities at Keele University Medical School was inaugurated in 2010. We offered four academic modules plus life classes for 3rd year students, and ran the course for two years. The modules […]
The BUILD residency has provided me with the opportunity to research and produce work in an industrial location with specialist departments in manufacturing and the built environment. This blog will chart my experiences and the subsequent changes in attitute to […]
This summer term I will be working in collaboration with artist Faga Cooper Keeble on a project that questions the integrity of emotions within an educational setting. We hope to enlist a group of pupils from a North London boys […]
How creative can an artist be when working with a traditional museum? I have been artist in residence at the Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley since March 2008, and we are now on the eve of opening a new exhibition, […]
Origination emerged from our interest in genealogy, and family stories of migration. In 2009-10, we embarked on a journey by ship, retracing the route of our ancestors from Eastern Europe to South Africa. In 2011, we were in residence in […]
I have been selected to work on 3 residencies over the next year in the UK, Poland and Finland. You've heard about Capitals of Culture? Cornwall wants to be a European Region of Culture. My first residency in Poland starts […]
The process of making work as part of the ‘The Shape of Things’ programme, including The Gifts, a textile installation for Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, and new work for a group show at Flow Gallery, London.
The children have both started at school, giving me hours of creative time a week; the computer business I started, to make ends meet, now makes a reliable profit; many of my friends have forgotten that I was ever an […]
I am in the process of moving out of "The Shed", and moving into a proper rent paying (space) studio of my own. This is scary stuff, leaving behind my free shed, and forcing myself at a point of economic […]
This project aims to explore who we are, where we’ve come from and where we’re going – as individuals and as communities. Specifically looking at how work patterns have changed from the 20th to the 21st century. http://www.ourworkinglives.org
A blog about the Revolutionary Arts Group's network of artists and arts organisations using empty shops to create temporary pop-up shops, community spaces and galleries
After finally stepping on to the first rung of the 'artists ladder' by graduating, exhibiting work, having poetry published, and teaching. I was buzzing. Then unforseen events (including a RTA and having a baby) knocked me right off path. Now, […]
I’m exposing myself to find community in the journey… I feel like a slow starter, stumbling around in the dark working out what it means to call myself an artist &always questioning whether I ‘qualify’.
Earlier this year I was contacted by a research student at the University of East London and asked whether I would be willing to take part in current research into creativity, creative individuals and creative experiences…
POST, a collective of female artists based in Liverpool have been awarded a go and see bursary from a-n. Follow POST as they develop international links, starting with the European Capital of Culture 2009 – Linz, Austria.
The artistic process of creating a site-specific live art intervention for a public art exhibition. Notes from the invitation to the performance.
Prophecies and Deceits is part of my MA final project. I am working with language, not only through the written word but through the signs and symbols used to communicate and express thoughts and feelings. I am particularly interested in […]
"Inside Out" May 2009 follows the highly successful Inside Out May 2008 Exhibition held in the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog.
I have just arrived in Banff to take part in 5 week co-production residency programme ‘Liminal Screen’ at the New Media Institute, part of the Banff Centre. I will be developing a project that uses mobile camera technologies to record […]
A Blog about the development of an upcoming exhibition that includes both work hung on walls and a large site specific mural.
This blog is here to follow the development of my artistic practice and also Tether activity, which ranges from collaborative group projects and exhibitions at The Wasp Room gallery. It is likely to be very banal and not disclose too […]
One year, cycle. After many years supporting & encouraging others in the arts, I’ve prioritised, it’s my turn. Usual dilemma? Juggling 3 days paid arts sector working with freelance work. Clay bodies & surface the media, realised initially in drawing […]
Like many artists I have spent much time in need of studio space and a supportive artistic community. Thankfully in Jan 2008 I got my chance at having a studio at Waygood.org. This has made all the difference rejuvenating my […]