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I forgot to write about our first crit of the new contract (we were down for a month, as per the blog title, but Luisa managed to secure a 3 mo. extension for Loopart to occupy the building until it […]

Time to review my year. 2013 has been a year for eliminating unnecessary time wasting, limiting when I say yes to things. Things that have changed for the better: Being invited to show in two group exhibitions, one local and […]

Post 4. Part 1 Custodian M. The following extract is taken from a diary entry from the last expedition to The Grid. 08.05.2012 It’s raining. R just sent me a text to say he can’t make it this year. I’m […]

This is the model I constructed on Sketchup from the video to be included in the exhibition. It arrived in the post from the 3D modellers last week. The form is taken from fourteen lines drawn between the fifteen marks […]

This time, what started as a warm up had results getting towards the subtlety I’m after.

Ooooooh, well…. The concrete canvas was finally delivered after a few hiccups. It’s HEAVY!!!! We had a time getting the 10m roll from the van onto a ‘borrowed’ flatbed trolly and into the service lift, let alone down the hallway, […]

After cleaning up the mess of dirt and grime from stapling/nailing/cutting the concrete canvas last night, I popped into the local pub. They had an event on that’s worth writing home about. CAGIBI collective from Lille was showing print-work along […]

Symbols as the Language of the Unconscious Having this blog has been a way of keeping my mind ticking over and thinking about art even when I have no art to show. Now in my second year of the MA […]

The Longest Night: Be refreshed in the darkness Night cancels out the business of day Inertia recharges the mind Then the day cancels the night And inertia disappears in the light. Though we sleep and rest in the dark, Doesn’t […]

These aren’t the works, they’re plinths and things. This is day 2 of the install, which was December 17th. You can see I’m running behind – it’s the 21st now and it’s been a busy few days in the lead-up […]

Not done much work in the last few days as Christmas has to be sorted!!! I have done a lot of thinking though and have been going round in circles-I have come to the conclusion that 6 months is not […]

Currently Reading: Gabriel Orozco – Asterisms (exhibition catalogue). 2012. Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York. Nancy spector (curator)’s essay begins by comparing stroturf Constellation and Standstars – two rubbish collections from a playing field in America and beach in Mexico respectively; […]

‘Heaven and hell’ Portsmouth December 20th The last two months have been a blur – working mostly on the logging but 2 weeks ago I started on the final run towards the map. Reviewing the info collected over the last […]

Chloe Mandy In Residence – Part 3 Last days in the project space race past, finally the hard graft is paying off. The paintings have evolved, and its exciting, the space allowed me to develop in direction that is just […]

‘Task and a half’ Portsmouth December 20th The day logging re-examined