Currently watching: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010) dir Sophie Fiennes. …continued These remains; his artistic leftovers that are individual site-specific works in their own right but also a mega sculpture park of one man’s practice in a defined […]
Working seems to coincide with writing. Usually if I’m not writing then I’m probably not working much either. So keeping a blog seems essential to help me feel that I can track some course of development through a bundle of […]
Saw Elizabeth Price’s video installation “Sunlight” at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea on 28th December 2013. She created artificial sunlight in her video via historic slides of the sun in k light, yellow nail varnish, a cymbal disc, characters from packets […]
First day of residency at Harrington Mill and it has been so productive. Not saying it has been brilliant work but work has been made. What a residency is about I think. Only had one idea in mind before I […]
A drawing of a train done by our middle daughter whilst on our way to London.
Many things are only skin deep and if people think we are an equal society they need to scratch a layer and really look. Women are still blamed and derided. Simple things like the Great British Bake Off unleashed massive […]
On the train to London, in between passing round snacks and thinking of things to draw, we talked to Judith about artist development schemes in East Anglia. For several years Wysing Arts Centre has been running the Escalator scheme. The […]
At The Photographers’ Gallery.
Since October I’ve been on the AA2A scheme at Derby University. I’ve been using their print making facilities to do some lino printing, and most recently, relief printing some pieces of wood. I’ve also been able to use their library […]
The trouble with site specific installation is that you spend a lot of time crossing your fingers. I had a good day the other day when I laid out the paintings and sculptures I will be using in the norm […]
Nan’s Curtains Everyone has curtains but why give them away… we get bored and fancy a change. Good thing that whoever previously hung these curtains wanted to get rid. I found them in a second hand store. My plan is […]
contemporary. conceptual.
TATE Modern, London
25 September 2013 – 19 January 2014
‘We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world’ Patti Smith, ‘Just Kids’ “I want to work under the table” announced L, who looks like she might be my collaborator. She sat […]
Does the idea that the best way to succeed in the creative industries is to comply with the notion that you have to have been to university and follow a particular path really work? In my view it has more […]
The real stitching is well underway now. I have plotted and planned the sweep of them, marked them with pins, adjusted a few, then stitched their stalks… one long simple stitch, to mark place and direction. Now the thinking has […]
Already 2014 is a bit of a blur… I was off New Years day, but have worked since ( I’m on my break now) In the last few days though, I have contacted the 36 artists who will be now […]
