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NC: Thanks to all who have submitted, we have had a strong group of entries. We are in the process of selecting artists and will let you all know later this week.

Post 1. By Custodian M. Altered Roland Barthes (1915-1980) from ‘Myth Today.’ ‘What is a myth, today? I shall give at the outset a first, very simple answer, which is consistent with etmology: myth is a type of speec…GRID.’ In […]

LITHOPS The experiments with stones are slow processes – not to be hurried. In between times, while I’m waiting and thinking, I’m also doing this.

Sharon Hallshipp and Rob Turner have kindly left comments on my last blog where I mused that viewers seemed drawn to feathers and I wondered if they were an emotional signifier of any sort. Sharon bypassed the feathers and felt […]

I’ve been reading about a 2011 MoMA exhibition called On Line. It surveys 100 years of expanded drawing practice between 1910 and 2010, looking particularly at the way drawing has moved off the page and into space and time. Ten […]

Isn’t there a Chinese curse along the lines of “May you live in interesting times”? The past 24 hours have certainly been interesting. Last night’s stay at the Museum was difficult – an unpleasant blend of bitter cold, damp, missing […]

The world mourns Nelson Mandela. He was certainly an icon for the late 20th century, but they’re still arguing, fighting and oppressing their own people. Nothing ever changes, it seems, human nature being as it is. And it doesn’t matter […]

Had a good tutorial with Rolf yesterday. It made me think about how important critical distance is, and how difficult that distance is when I am in the making process. This might well be at the heart of my wrestle […]

In the midst of the excitement of reaching our Kickstarter funding (An embarrassingly big ‘thank you’ to everyone to contributed and who helped spread the word, incidentally) I have shamefully neglected to describe and assess the recent open studio event […]

After a long period of waiting, I finally know what the dates for my show in Berlin next year will be. The sense of relief is palpable, even though I knew that the proposals had been agreed in principle, it […]

Studio75 is still alive maybe you popped by Studio75 on the Kingsland Estate in Laburnum st recently and discovered to your surprise (horror?) that there is just a hole in the ground where the studio and its amazing murals used […]

I won a ticket to the Fourth Third Ear Symposium 2013: Don’t Panic! – Arts in Austerity at the Southbank. I’m rubbish at tweeting but apparently others were doing it on the day (Friday Dec 6th) #artsinausterity I was trying […]

THE STONE Blog entry from 3rd October 2013: “Meanwhile, I will need to do more research, more experiments, more reading and learning to try to understand the combinations of chemistry and energy that might just make my stone grow.” So […]

Why you don’t need to Debut: Part One I heard recently about the furore surrounding an enterprise called Debut Contemporary. This is an outfit that runs a kind of finishing school for art graduates. Appropriately it’s in Notting Hill, location […]

An opportunity has arisen, about 5 miles from my front door, for me to “register interest” in occupying a studio. I think I have said here, early on in my blogging, that I didn’t want a studio away from home, […]

Early afternoon meeting with the Executive Head of Residents and Visitor Services and the Service Manager (Town Services) Torbay Council. a bit of atmosphere-building… we worked most of yesterday drafting and rehearsing our pitch. In the early hours we were […]

Sitting in Torre Abbey’s Tea Rooms, gazing through the windows and out across the former meadows to the wide sweep of the Bay. We have an 11am meeting with the Service Lead (Theatre, Museums and Arts) and the Operations and […]

Tense couple of weeks and then confirmation from Torre Abbey of their support in principal for the proposed Smooth Space Torre Abbey residency. Meetings set up with Education Officer and Collections & Exhibitions Curator – we will be writing a […]

Feathers and concrete are now ensconced at an exhibition in Mile End-eliciting some comment as people go round. Feathers are something that people seem to relate to – on a fairly superficial level I suspect. . Not sure that they […]