FOLLY STONES EXPERT ok its 2014 christmas is OVER the child is back at school and its time to get my thinking cap on again. i have managed to put it off by destracting myself with a mountain of cooking […]
x “There are many ways that you can signify to yourself that you are doing your practice. For example, some people wear a white lab coat or a particular pair of glasses, or always work in a specific place – […]
Im on abit of a mad one today. I decided to stop being a lazy arse and do something creative. I have made a couple video’s to inform the contemporary side of my project. This one is of my beagle […]
Happy New Year lovely people… Well that’s Christmas done and dusted and back in the attic, and New Year spent in Wales and our river still lapping at the top of the arches under the bridge…. Its all a bit […]
The intention of the first residency collaboration is to create a sound scape for the space with musician Michael Hobson. Whilst these ideas are, as yet, a little undeveloped, we have been thinking in terms of something akin to the […]
So, what are the elements of a Patriarchal society? Men in charge obviously, yet it is the insidious influence of Patriarchy on women, that the women themselves unquestionably follow, that concerns me. Women used to be very powerful. Life flowed […]
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
12 Years A Slave, the new feature film from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, has been nominated for 10 BAFTAs, including best film and director.
Despite a major Kurt Schwitters’ show at Tate Britain last year, the future of the German artist’s Merz Barn in Cumbria remains uncertain. Ian Hunter of the Littoral Trust, which bought the dilapidated barn building in 2006, explains how things stand with the project and why the continued involvement of artists is key to its future.
Immigration (War is over…NOT) So this’s Christmas and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun. A very happy Xmas & a Happy New Year – it was for me – let’s hope it’s a good […]
8.1.14 So, been back at work for a few days and enjoying planning for the year ahead. I’ve been out to two of our local schools, The Grange and St. Chad’s to see the work being done by students for […]
Week 58: 21st – 27th OctoberI’ve been thinking a lot more about the mutability of artworks within my practice, be it in the tasseography drawings (week 51), or my continued interest in relational aesthetics and new participatory projects (week 28). […]
So its a new year and i have started up some new ideas. I am experimenting as much as i can with my knitting skills to create different techniques and ways of working with the materials at hand. I have […]
Coming up in 2014… Happy New Year! I am delighted to announce I will be participating in an exciting range of exhibitions and projects in 2014. Below are details of current and ongoing projects which I thought you might be […]
Holding pen… I find myself in limbo again… on the cusp… playing a waiting game… I don’t know if I’ve got a studio yet… interview pending I’m not sure if I can raise the rest of the money for NY… […]
Contracts…. so now I find myself with another dilemma. In May 2013 I saw a really juicy exhibiting opportunity in the a-n ops section, and went for it. ‘If your work is perfect for an arts festival, big thinking and […]
I’m still not getting anywhere with Kickstarter funding, so I’m taking a break for a while. The Christmas Market went well considering we had to move it at short notice. I somehow managed to set it up, and made as […]
A design duo, an architecture practice, two ceramicists and a glass artist make up the boundary-pushing shortlist of this year’s Jerwood Makers Open.
