Twas a good day at the studio-well every day is! – just love it more and more. I remembered to take my camera but didnt take many pics. Forgot to bring the camera home so sorry but no images today […]
It was my intention to post the aforementioned video which seeks to explain my upcoming project, 6ix Souls. The size of the vid is ensuring that it’s taking a long, long time to upload – so, I guess I’ll post […]
Fish … I said, fish … Interestingly, I own a contemporary art gallery business called ‘The Freudian Sheep’. It launched in December 2013. I am a very busy chap … and sometimes wish that I could sit quietly in a […]
I’m trying to gather more ideas to express the destruction and suffering caused through sexual objectification. These two photographs are exploring the demanding expectations of women, I want to try and show more emotion through my photographs. I’d like to […]
Cindy Sherman. Sherman’s work is highly relatable to the theory ‘The Male Gaze’ by Laura Mulvey suggesting that Film, Television and other mass mediated publications are seen through the eyes of the male, thus effecting the clothing posture and attitude […]
continued from above I imagined and described the three interweaving themes in my dissertation at art-college as a plait spilling down a woman’s back. One of my favourite film-sequences is in Tarkovsky‘s The Mirror: that moment when the mother washes […]
Now that quite a few of my hair pieces are in Strand, and there’s a possibility of them going to another exhibition, I’ve decided it’s time to re-assess them. I work with artificial hair. It is a sensual material, soft, […]
You would think after writing a 7000 word dissertation I would be glad of the opportunity to get back to some physical artwork. I find myself, however, at a bit of a loose end. It’s so frustrating that I have […]
Begun the Skype collaboration with sound artist, Peter Barnard. This can be heard at http://youtu.be/RLcztSRUNw0 . Initial problems with Skype, difficulties of videoing the space problems with uploading the conversation have, for me, tended to overshadow what will be an […]
I unexpectantly had to run a Clay Station session today so plans to go to the studio were scuppered!After a meeting about some possible funding I unloaded 1 kiln and loaded 2. Eventually I got some time to do some […]
Still thinking about excessivity I have been trying to sort out my ‘question’ with which to apply for a phd. How do I fit in everything…… EVERYTHING that I need and want to know into one consise and to the […]
Leon Golub’s art work has been particularly influential over the last couple of years on my understanding of how art can communicate social issues that deal with difficult subject matter. His large scale works depict the effects of power structures […]
This week, we’re in Los Angeles, Geneva, Berlin and Roskilde for our whistlestop tour of what’s happening internationally in the world of art.
