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SCULPTURE ‘100 DREAM SHAPES’ I am interested in translating my paintings into sculptures. In this concern, I looked at what I could do to appropriate different parts of the painting with a sculpture. I have started to address the paintings […]

reflection1: The value of opportunities like Making Space. The chance to spend a week experimenting in a recoginised and well known venue, Fabica, is potentially very exciting. The building, a former Regency church is a very static and layered building […]

Val Bolsover Sharing In childhood we are taught to share, the expectation being that others will share in return. We may have fewer sweets initially but our generosity should reap rewards in the future.We use sharing to relate to joint […]

I have gathered further 2 tone clay stones and laid them out. Still wet from the river the defination of the border lines between grey and pink clay isn’t so strong. I am laying them out trying to join together […]

*IDEA** originally from 18th February 2014 This is a piece of Art I’m playing around with words as a form of Art to represent the idea. I put the words Art onto the back of a canvas. The canvas is […]

It is because society tells us that women are objects, not subjects, that when society is presented with a case of male violence or sexual abuse, everyone looks at it from his point of view: “Oh, he must have been […]

Currently Reading: Allan Kaprow: Art As Life, 1980, Getty Research Institute, LA. Part 1/2 Allan Kaprow and his works and writings on Happenings and Non Art are important to rubbish research, not least because of the direct references and usages […]

Currently Reading: Allan Kaprow: Art As Life, 1980, Getty Research Institute, LA. Part 2/2 On Kaprow’s use of rubbish; “Reading through the earliest scores, created before he turned to a Zen-like conceptual simplicity in the later 1960s, one finds a […]

Currently reading: Allan Kaprow – Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (ed. Jeff Kelley), 1993, University of California Press (expanded edition, 2003). www.arts.rpi.edu/~century/MMC11/Kaprow-essays.pdf‎ The 2003 expanded edition preface includes a Participant Instruction (p.xxvii): Building a tower of under […]

Things have descended into total chaos in my life, and I’ve largely been unable to continue doing anything much at all, never mind art. Without wishing to totally depress everyone completely, I’m currently paying the bedroom tax on my son’s […]

Twilight Zone I recently did a new layer on my big painting, which I have now called Twilight Zone. This comes from an episode of David Attenboroughs Blue Planet, where he talks of about 300ft down under the sea where […]

Over the last couple of weeks my work has developed and allowed me to see how it is fine art. I think of my practice as a tree; the roots of my work is craft skills and materials. The Trunk […]

Had a trip to Salisbury on Sunday and visited the Arts Centre there. At reception there was a box of books to be taken for donations. I bought a few but the one I am REALLY excited about is “Design […]

In life we use our five senses to learn more about the world that we live in, such as tasting,listening,seeing,smelling and of course touching. Through the action of using our hands we begin to ask physical questions and show a […]

In October 2013 just starting the first semester of the final year, I knew I wanted to paint emotions from my subjects faces and wanted to experiment using colour to indicate what the emotion is. The piece titled ‘Invidia’ is […]

These images are some current experimental works formed from the laying up of paints. They are all inspired by the natural environment in one way or another; however don’t all take the same theme. This is something that i am […]

I made the collage in image 1 at home using torn up photocopies of the third image and oil pastels. This was made shortly after doing the Gorse Walk at Dunwich Heath having enjoyed the rich tapestries of colours and […]

Today I have been researching colour theory by Edith Anderson Feisner… with the intention of exploring on a deeper level colours that evoke luminosity, I will also start to investigate a deeper exploration of how colour creates a certain mood […]

It seems ironic to me that over the past few weeks, I feel like I’ve had everything and yet nothing to say. It’s been three weeks since I posted here, at which point I wrote about tying black gags around […]

→ continued from above I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing what I’m doing here and what I’m achieving, if anything (I call it artling). There’s some sense to it: Both my brother and I were profoundly influenced by my […]

The photographs I’ve been looking at sway deliriously between public and private spheres. They are highly significant for me now; even more so for my dad’s (widowed) mother who at some stage will have received one of these cards; but […]