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It has been of great benefit that i have the earliest memories of any one i’ve ever met. I actually remember my birth, the struggle, the crushing and the being born. I vividly remember having out of body experiences while […]

Now the waters have subsided and things begin to settle down I have enjoyed walking ‘Over the Golf Course’. I have my country park back, at least for a while. The ground seems to be recovering it’s still very muddy […]

KG DA Our final work on paper became a blog. http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5108546-transfigure Click on Preview Coffee, lunch and lots of flip, tear, cut. It was great working this way.

Described by Jackie Berridge as ‘like entering a drawing’ the work is beginning to occupy the space with tentacles that are the collaborations that take place both here and elsewhere. It feels like a gigantic mindmap with endless possibilities that […]

Can Images move us any more? The discussion at the Beaney addressed authorship, authenticity, apathy, context, quality, saturation in relation to images of conflict, photo-journalism, and digital media, which archives and enables the proliferation of photographs of violence. The past […]

I have spent time at the river and been given access to a particularly good spot through a private garden. Laying them out to try and join marks is a struggle. They are not highly defined; they are subtle marks. […]

It’s all about how we respond to our experience. If we only react in ways born from habits, we will always receive the exact same results. Once we open the space for new ways to show themselves – or rather […]

The smell of saffron, dreams and howls. Diary extracts 27.10.2006: We have been away in Switzerland and France, travelling on trains with Leo and Delia. It was quite a journey, inside and out. On returning home, from sunny southern France […]

After finishing my dissertation in December I wanted to travel for a few days in a different country. I had been told about the Transmedia Festival for art & digital culture that takes place every year in Berlin. I had […]

Walking down country lanes and across fields on a sunny day is my idea of great research for my installation. With a treasure hunt map scribbled on paper, unable to print off the website, I followed best I could across […]

My drawings seem to undergoing a period of change, mainly because of a really good ‘group crit’ session on Tuesday. I was not allowed to speak while students from another year gave their feedback on my work. Silence does not […]

Museum of Contemporary Rubbish at Venn Projects, Blackpool, 14 March – 7 April 2014 Museum of Contemporary Rubbish has been invited to show at Venn Projects in Blackpool. The MoCR has made a Blackpool Collection for this exhibition, available as […]

I became impatient. Those readers who know me, will know this isn’t unusual. I had intended the layered piece to be a piece on its own, the research, the experiment from which other works would follow. But actually, in itself, […]

Yesterday I returned from the No Boundaries 2014 conference, which was an open series of meetings and talks on the role of culture in 21st century society. At the meetings were Artists and people involved in the Arts and the […]

Triumph for the FGM campainers! Fahma Mohamed, with the support of The Guardian, set up a petition to exhort the Government to engage with schools and try to stop this horrific practice. Having got the requisite amount of signatures, she […]

a peanut butter sandwich and a g&t. that was my reward for making a submission this afternoon. it’s a big one and the second of the three that i knew about before Christmas. earlier this week i secured an opportunity […]

Coral Painting – Sanctuary I took a slightly different approach to this painting. I wanted it to be very textured like rocks or coral. With every layer of colour I mixed in some modelling paste with the paint, which becomes […]

Inspire By… As mentioned previously, there have been many key works which have influenced, and guided the concept of my work throughout the course. One piece in particular – 7000 Oaks (1982-87) by Joseph Beuys was the catalyst in inspiring […]