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(First published on The Other Side) This post is about the sheer emotional labour of managing neurotypicals’ cognitive styles and preferences. This is heightened when autistics find themselves in a minority of one in almost any situation where our own […]

“A New Bounce…” In these “unprecedented” weird times, when at all possible, I’ve found its a good idea to embrace the differences, to look for the positives that come out of having to do things differently, rather than bemoan the […]

Surrealism first began when Andre Breton published a manifesto in 1924. Breton was enthusiastic about Sigmund Freud’s works about the id, ego and superego. Combining the ideas of the unconsciousness and subconscious with Dada (already a movement characterised by absurdity, […]

Come in, come in! Mind my lanterns. Look at them burning so brightly, aren’t they pretty? Makes you want to sing doesn’t it? Good job you’re here. Gather round. How about a spot of Good King Wenceslas? Lanterns Door (mixed […]

I have received two invitations to fill in an ’artists’ questionnaire’ for Region Uppsala. After crossing the rather alarming box ’age 46 – 65’(!) came a series of relatively simple questions that woke rather complex response in me. In summary […]

For the study period we decided to have four study sessions taking place between November and the beginning of January. After having several discussions we noted down the four key topics we would like to study together (one topic for […]

I visited Firstsite the gallery in Colchester. Cornelia Parker and Hilary Cartmel were the artist I was most excited to see and their sculptures. https://firstsite.uk/event/tell-me-the-story/ As my work is sculpture based and heavily dominant around photography and film documentation, I […]

‘Workplace’ Taking Stock : Loughborough Paul Conneally 31st October 2020 Taking Stock is a series of works linked to and emerging from artist photographer Christopher Mear’s walk to work as a retail operative. Here I transpose his walk directions from […]

When I took photos of my work I would often use my phone to take pictures, which was great for quick photos to show my process. However since lock down and having my artwork assessed digitally, I have found that […]

It’s Christmas! I’m all ready and waiting for the big day. Notice my red decorations and twinkly lights ?. Now when’s Santa arriving so I can get them to polish my handles? It’s Christmas Door (mixed media painting on canvas […]

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This is a digital work I made on Wednesday. Seeing Hertz was originally a sculpture I made in 2015. I photoshopped a face covering over the mouth and nose of the skull to comment on the present time. On the […]

Never has life been so tangled up in my head and my work. I’ve always been interested in the touch between people, the physical, emotional, psychological… the effect one person has on another… and now, in its lack we can […]

‘Ok, you can decorate me’ she huffs. ‘Just don’t make me too flashy like her down the road’. So she’s been subtly festooned and secretly quite likes her berries and ribbons (she won’t let you know it though!). Not Too […]