The collaborative project that I am involved with is approaching its conclusion, but somehow this last stretch is proving difficult. My poet collaborator’s poem has placed my ‘hoard’ of objects fashioned from goose bones as belonging to a water culture […]
Unbelievably, I don’t know how to make a DVD! I thought I should save my files as “mov” files but that didn’t seem to work!It seems like it should be such a simple and obvious process but I’m stumped! Hopefully […]
My old old phone had a no megapixels camera but took some great photos. This captures the movement of my reluctant sitter’s hand as she waves and screams ‘No Pictures’. This was early on in our relationship and I have […]
Wang Jun open studio When I was in China I met the artist Wang Jun who has a studio at 501 Artspace http://yyyiii.blogcn.com/index.shtml#. He is now the artist in resident at the Chinese Arts Centre and he has been here […]
I haven’t been making over the last two weeks. I was determined to get in the studios and force myself to work, but it didn’t happen. I don’t think that ever happens, you just have to think in those times, […]
Disaster! We turned up to the venue of Aquaphonics at 6.00 pm as arranged to start setting up. We’d got the projectors set up, and were just testing the cameras when the manager came in and said: “Look, You can’t […]
An unsettling dream of creating art from life… I awoke a few weeks ago from a vivid dream involving the creation of a sculptural installation. When I dream about making art (which happens only rarely) I pay attention- writing the […]
Event 10 Blast Theory weekender Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, London 27-28.03.10 This was a brilliant way to finish my R&D project because it gave me a chance to put into practice some of the themes I have been working on over […]
Finally, after almost a weeks install, the artist collective C-O-L-L-I-D-E-R and other regional (Eastern) artists collectives got together for the show ‘Wysing Arts Contemporary Presents’, in Cambridge. Our collective, C-O-L-L-I-D-E-R was ambitious in terms of making two structures interlinked by […]
i’ve enjoyed myself this morning, chatting with mr gilbert. made a little mistake in not eating enough prior to the afternoon meeting. not eating affects my mood rather. something i am aware of and something of a project yet to […]
This stem of blogging can also be read here – ArtEvict – hidden space and revealing performance I was contacted on here from someone in an office on Buchanan Street – or somewhere close to thereabouts. In fact the whereabouts […]
What a difference the weather makes to the human condition… last week I managed to get back into my studio (a.k.a. the garden shed) for the first time in I-don’t-know-how-long, dodging the awakening queen wasps and actually making a start […]
Only 3 weeks to go! Slight panic and a desire to spend 24 hours a day in the foundry have set in, as I realise that I only have 3 more weeks till the end of my residency. However, I […]
Airspace Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
13 February – 27 March 2010
