‘Bomb Bird’, created recently in Carrara, using Bardiglio marble and Carrara marble. I made it at a time of great threat to the whole of Ukraine, and was horrified by the perpetual missile attacks by Russia, in the effort to […]
Yesterday, we had our first crit since [starting] installing our work for assessment and degree show. I found this really useful, with a lot of suggestions and thoughts for improvements – and some very useful feedback on some bits that […]
Over the past week, we have been preparing the studio space for degree show and assessment, painting and filling the walls and then hanging our work. As I have a large space to fill and have a different colour on […]
The work has now been finished, so its time for a crit. When my fellow students stepped in between my work, I started getting comments. – You can see every side of it – It almost becomes three shows. One […]
In this blog post, I will be talking about my understanding of the theory presented by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey- more specifically her older claims before. The basis of Mulvey’s argument is the reflection on the paradox of phallocentrism, […]
Notes/Summary of Amelia Jones’s Tracing the subject with Cindy Sherman As Amelia Jones Jones states, Cindy Sherman has been claimed as an artist/genius excavating the human consciousness or as a producer of work exemplifying a postmodern culture of simulation. Sherman […]
My ACW funded project doesn’t begin until mid September but I’m still trying to uphold my resolution to make a drawing every day. It’s an up and down thing, and sometimes just a case of following the tracks. I’ve been […]
People often ask about the difference between coaching and mentoring. The definitions I use are: a COACH works with their clients by helping them identify and achieve their own goals (internal answers) a MENTOR shares their own experience so the […]
Alongside my personal practice, I now offer coaching to artists and makers.
Having thought I’d have some quiet time, my diary yet again seems to have filled up all by itself! I had wanted some studio days of just drawing, and twig wrapping, either in silence, or listening to gentle music. I […]
The film is now getting out there to the public. It is showing as part of Fringe Arts Bath festival 27th May until 12th June and will be screened at Tranås at the Fringe, a multi-disciplinary arts festival in Sweden […]
I wonder how much of an identifier bones are hmm still trying to establish that and whether it matters. Obviously, I know they are significant in terms of Forensic Anthropology, revealing information such as race, gender, age even profession and […]
Supermarket My head is spinning with so many thoughts … thoughts that are closely related to being at the fair, and those that have a less direct connection but have been sparkled by something that I have seen, heard, or […]
