A very welcome discussion with my MA friend about my work. He made me consider not so much what but how I work and that quality is important. Up until now I have used found or cheap canvases and have […]
Pointeso Harbour: Service area Zone 3a. A Pointeso mature student waits in limbo in the rain. I’m sitting here at the motorway services contemplating where to travel to next. It’s a cold space. People walk by with the blankest of […]
So I find myself on this Sunday afternoon, sending out a reminder to 36 artists about getting their work to us for the NY exhibition. It wasn’t on my list of things to do, but after receiving 3 emails in […]
As I start to look at different opportunities I wonder, what defines me as an artist? What is it that spurs me to create art, what am I really interested in? Is it just light or is it more. The […]
I’d like to start my blog with an intended post that I wrote back in October. I recently stumbled across a short video interview by the artist Richard Serra. In it he answers the question ‘Why make art?’- or at […]
ok im going to start this thing of from the beginning of my second year of uni, which is where my work really started becoming what it is today. These next couple of posts are going to look at my […]
Open call for book artists! Library Thoughts 4 Exhibition Deadline: March 31, 2014 Entry fee: USD 35 This year at Hegyvidek Gallery will open the Library Thoughts 4 exhibition. The exhibition curator Beata Szechy. The exhibition scheduled from August 26 […]
Yesterday was a strange day for me and my practice. I woke up the normal time, did the normal morning routine, got the kids ready for school and was looking forward to a day of making images with sparklers when […]
Lindsay Connors Val & I have had our first meeting. We are have been given work created by Niki Campbell & Rosalind Barker. Interesting to collaborate with a new person – we are in the process of trying to extract […]
A lovely early morning breakthrough and a feeling that I have managed to make a step forward marrying older ideas with new. Using projection and a found slide, projected through the rubber (bicycle inner tubes) strips onto the wall beyond. […]
‘Straight’ my mind has not achieved this mode of thinking since appraising the word for task 1 of our collaboration project. Starting point as always head for a definition, as my mind latched on to images of Halloween 2009 in […]
nan’s curtains So I’m thinking whilst making – that’s a good place to be in. Thank you Elena. Better to relax into the work, meaning will begin to take hold. Though I have to admit already I see where these […]
I have to be reminded, by other people who throw my own words back at me. Jo Farnell Brown, recently, and Bo, constantly. I have to have faith in the work, move confidently with it, allow it to do its […]
Just grabbing a few minutes so you know Im still here! Its been a really busy week and my brain has been working at least double time!Had the day at the studio monday and worked some more on the large […]
First main piece using the medium of charchoal Iron filling skull
Fine Art BA (Hons)
It’s been a week that has seen a multi-million pound sponsorship deal at Tate Modern and controversy and column inches about a chair, a Russian socialite and a publicity picture of questionable taste. But is there a link between the two stories?
Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn has been announced as the winner of the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
This week’s snapshot of international art action takes us to Trondheim, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Paris.
Emerging visual artists Leah Capaldi and Andrew Cranston are among the six recipients of the £10,000 awards.
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
14 January – 8 February 2014
Fine Art
it is a yellow morning, meaning the sun is rising through, or behind, or despite of, a layer of watery atmosphere – something like that. a friend of mine died on 12 Jan, he befriended our family when we joined […]
I have been wrestling with a binary problem for ages. I make work and I curate work When I worked down on the pier in Margate, curating the harbour gallery, I found that most of my time was taken up […]
The Sporting League: Game 9 Results. Athletico pulled away at the summit creating a five point gap with an assured three goals to win over poor relations Chamber Athlete. Newly promoted underdogs Kite Vale continued to show the big guns […]
