Light and Flesh on Canvas As progression from my face on paper and also my exploration into light & flesh, I decided to work on canvas with the still from my video. A mark on canvas is undeniably made. It […]
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” — Jill Davis, Writer Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” — Robert […]
Last week I walked along the Dunwich Heath coastline heading towards Sizewell power station. As I got nearer and nearer the power station I noticed how more and more spiritually drained I felt with the large hulk of the building […]
I have tried to find books on contemporary landscape painting and came across a few but not many. This is strange. There are lots of good books on the work of individual landscape artists but not, it seems to me, […]
I have decided to work on paper for a while. I think that canvas was too “precious”. Anyway, this has started to work. I have produced looser work that is, I think, a bit better. I just need to remember […]
Went to a talk by the artist-photographer Andreas Schmidt in the Waterfront yesterday afternoon. Really loved his Vegas photographs, and his way of placing them where they have a symbiosis with their surroundings. I also liked his idea of using […]
The recent Europa Re-Imagined symposium in Cardiff was the latest event organised by the European Prospects project, exploring issues of experience and identity through photography and contemporary art in Europe. Rory Duckhouse reports.
We’re still working out what we learned from running Studio 75, but it’s become clear that it’s very difficult to run any kind of independent gallery or exhibition space. That spaces that do exist are largely able to do so […]
I began a painting based on a photograph in the Guardian three weeks ago, of a row of dead Ukranians surrounded by mourning relatives and friends. since I began painting again, my work has addressed the natural world, so to […]
Change in Ideas Lately I have been experimenting with the mixing of colour. After noticing some of my palettes from some of my paintings I found it interesting that I had inadvertently made so many different textures, hues and patterns […]
Artist Research- Katharina Grosse Katharina Grosse is a German artist whose primary focus is colour in and of itself. Her works, according to her, act as an intermediary between the materialised measurable and the imaginative not yet materialised. (materialised measurable […]
Business side of Art I think the business side of art is something that is overlooked in most art practices. I know up until a few days a go I had given little thought to it. However when I leave […]
Artist Reference or Not? Lately I have been looking towards other artists for inspiration and ideas. This is something that we have all done throughout the course and something I have always struggled with, because to me it fundamentally doesn’t […]
an argument … oh monty python where are you now … (video below to what i am thinking about.) monty python showing that an argument can be fun. oh bimble off into lah lah land of waffle and lovelyness while […]
Just a quick one; a couple of little updates! Regular readers of my blog at glittermouse.co.uk will recall my last exhibition at the Chinese Arts Centre in September, in which I displayed photos from PlaceMaking workshops in the UK and […]
Video’s that i put together today. Each of them silent in order to represent how beagles can not speak for themselves and how we humans are their only hope. Also it represents how their vocal cords are removed in order […]
LARA ALMARCEGUI During my site visits, I was reminded of Lara Almarcegui’s work which occupied the Spanish Pavilion during last years Venice Biennale. In a way comparable to my own practice, Almarcegui examines processes of urban transformation that derive from […]
Text by Victoria Gray Form and Context The question of context is at the foreground in this stage of the project. It became interesting to explore the uses of sEMG in its original context, that being the medical field. This […]
After six months of financial chaos, stress, and mostly chaos, things have started to return to normal, after my prodigal son returned home again, escorted by the police. In short, his living situation was atrocious, never mind the fact that […]
It was back in September when I first started using family photography in my artwork. I had selected one image of myself standing in the back garden of my childhood home. At this point I was thinking about my own […]
Remiss or what?! Last post January 2013? It’s now March… Hello again. Well, we’ve got the green light to stay until May 11, 2014, and are firming up plans to show in the first few days of May. I’m not […]
In previous posts I have reflected on my wish to use anaglypta wallpaper in more of my works given the relevance of such a material to my childhood memories. Following both my initial experiment on this paper and then working […]
When I was finding it oh so hard to get my a*** over to the studio a couple of months ago, I found that I could only make it as far as East Dulwich before feeling compelled to get off […]
