My artist journey started at college where I began to look at how different artist had tackled the idea of beauty in their own way. I began to look at the artist Yves Klein, his body prints really fascinated me. […]
Humour is essential. I address a range of issues in my practice. The individual and collective, the impact of institutional systems and structures which digs deeper into our everyday and what makes us manoeuvre. Yet when my work is presented […]
Thursday blog 3 i lie its not thursday its tuesday and i am 5 days late for my blog oops i do have a good excuse! so how is it all going? i have had a fantastic reponse to my […]
number one has been sent. oh what a lovely line and it’s about the first application of the twelve. the moments before it went i pushed myself through the metaphorical funnel to make sure all was well it with and […]
nan’s curtains 18 sets of 1/12th size remade curtains, each approx 14 x 21 cms. Almost there. Thinking about what we actually ‘do’ with curtains, led me to consider the repetitive motion of opening and closing curtains every day. Curtains […]
I’m notoriously bad at keeping a diary, as it always seemed strange to me to record the often mundane events of a day. This, methinks, will be different. This I will write in the way that I think; the way […]
Week 63: 25th November – 1st DecemberAlthough the focus of my work is artists’ books, and I have been creating and exhibiting this type of work since 2007, I’ve never really done any formal training in bookbinding. Artists books and […]
Ruth Payne The work I produced for Straight, the first stage of the collaboration, uses paper objects which have performed their primary function (shopping lists, brochures, paper napkins, free newspapers, opened envelopes, empty seed packets). These are the fragments machine-stitched […]
I have never felt the need to reference my own life within my artwork. Of course my life experiences inherently play a part in the artwork I have produced over the past 5 years or so, however, the want to […]
At university I began to look at this idea of being a Barbie and how she is considered to be the idea woman which is crazy and far for realistic. It fascinated me that we give this doll to a […]
RANT To be honest Art really pisses me off. I do not know how to express my ideas and have conversations with other Artists, especially in the presence of a debate. I do not speak the same language as an […]
At the beginning of my last year I wanted to start looking a Barbie’s still however making once that relate to me or ones that you defiantly don’t see on the shelf. I always felt that I wanted to be […]
Last week started badly when I fell down the stairs at home and ended up in A and E. It was just a bruised back in the end but I got some pretty beefy painkillers. I was so disappointed as […]
Artist Luke Turner has raised concerns over the actions of London and New York-based organisation art:i:curate, claiming that his work was printed and distributed without his consent.
This week’s must-see exhibitions range from Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’s first solo show in a public gallery at Nottingham Contemporary to Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery.
10th January 2014 I need to act upon my ideas quickly, respond and record. This is because the more I think about the idea the more my thoughts and ideas will progress and the original idea develops into something different, […]
So yesterday I talked about what urges me to create work and I had a moment where I realised that art had become my way of dealing with the hate that surrounded me as I grew up and as an […]
In a previous project I looked at old photos and the journey through time of the people in these photos and how things evolved and changed. With this previous project i made screen prints and mono prints using the old […]
I’ve just had an exhibition proposal accepted; the concept will involve developing my unstable self-portraits so that they extend outside of the picture plane onto the wall. Todays drawings start to explore this idea.
The Diary Room: Does anyone else feel like writing on here is similar to going into the diary room on Big Brother. Rob… is in the diary room, talking about his problems! ‘How are you today Rob’ ‘Well I am […]
I had confirmation today that my video installation idea for the show in St Petersburg will receive funding – really great news, but now a lot of work to make it a reality. I plan to project a series of […]
Here’s the third enlarged collage (41 x 66 x 1 cm). Both this and its smaller preparatory counterpart work but this version’s bigger scale allows an apt greater excess with the magazine decoupage elements. I’ve received the very first independent […]
Not Another Degree Show! It’s the build up to our degree show. The culmination of three years’ hard work and dedication has lead up to this, and to tell the truth we want something a bit different this year. Something […]
Working on the performance for Friday and it is great to have both some time to make a few changes and distance from the work to know what might be a helpful change to make and what should be left […]
**SPIRAL** **IDEA** 8th January 2014, 14.21pm <– when original idea came to my mind I find Art a massive spiral of ideas and interpretations. As an Artist, you are constantly opening new doors, to new ideas through research and observations. […]
