I can feel my stone roots sinking as I’m slowly enveloped in the growth of all this beauty as the seasons progress. Some plants rise and uplift their buds whereas others stretch languidly across my canopy. The true spirit of […]
Yayoi Kusama was an artist I was given from 19/02/21 group crit. Kusama is “influential to the development of assemblage, environmental art and performative practices” (Auction Central News, 2016). She changes environments into immersive experiences – similar to how I […]
I want to talk to talk about an art trial that was in Coventry during October had term 2020, Coventry Monsters. Throughout the city where eight massive, inflatable monsters in bright colours and bold designs perched up high on buildings for the public […]
Are you experiencing challenges, barriers or opportunities caused by Brexit? To support artist careers post Brexit, a-n, in partnership with the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), are creating an International working resource for artists. This resource will evolve over the […]
Since my last blog a lot has happened. 2021 has begun, I’ve had a little girl, we are in our third lockdown and we’re experiencing COVID variants. Having a daughter is a lot harder than I thought, I imagined I […]
Welcome to my pavilion of blooms! Wander around the sumptuously tempting heads, encased in their lusciously unfurled leaves and find a nook to rest here. Tea and biscuits will appear as if by magic in a flurry of sparkles, to […]
Calm. Bright. Rippling grasses. Horizon lines tinged in blue. Listening below the moss. ‘ I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, the colour of the horizons, of remote mountain ranges of […]
Postcard auction in aid of Hepatitis C Trust 25 February – 11 March 2021
Multi- Award-Winning Laura I. Art Gallery is excited to invite you to their first solo exhibition of this year.
This it part of my man in isolation project, having seen so many masks dropped onto the floor I imagined them falling from the trees. I’ve printed the paper using frottage and relief printing both with masks. The paper was […]
I’ve been asked to paint 2 dogs as a 60th birthday present
Following the group crit we received with the L5 as well on 19/02/21, they also critiqued our individual films and its context which helped massively as the main focus as been on the practicality of the making the film. See […]
We’re all aglow inside this cosy nook of all things flowers. Even outside, blossom is sweeping in swathes as branches are swished, shedding those petals to beautify every surface. Who says there’s no such thing as natural beauty? Natural Beauty […]
Visual Blog, Seven Lochs Wetland Park commission, Glasgow
This month I received the news that my proposal for a larger walking work has been commissioned through the Turnpike ACTIVATIONS programme, thanks to Arts Council England. This means that all the ideas the Turnpike Walkers and I have been […]
Oh … Premiere Pro … how do I get frustrated by you … let me count the ways … Working on single films I had pushed and pulled and screamed, and got to a happy method of working with Premiere […]
The Edit So much of what I present to the public relies upon the edit. The judicious pruning. I’m not sure what percentage of my time is spent doing this – either consciously or subconsciously. But each piece of work, […]
Art is better now than it’s ever been. It’s better than the greats. It has impact and wow, and visual and political punch. It’s tenacious and wild, confrontational, angry and eloquent. Simultaneously it’s valueless and short-lived. A deluge of painstaking, […]
I had to change a few things with the Research in Practice module, such as what artwork I’m looking at. I have chosen to look at Andromedan Sad Girl, a collaborative exhibition by Florence Peake and Tai Shani. I decided […]
Left to right: Simone Anderson, Curriculum development Truus Jansen, Ethics and unconscious bias Samantha Watson, Content design and accessibility Larisa Blazic, Lead artist
