I’ve been writing descriptions of my work for the show. It’s more difficult than I thought it would be. I was used to talking about my work when I was on the degree course, but I’ve got out of the […]
The family workshop today was busy – very busy. For over 2 hours children came & went & sometimes came back again. They drew all over the gallery windows and the windows in both entrances to the building with chalk […]
I am finding the lack of time to work frustrating. Juggling my teaching, proposal submissions, group commitments and the like have become overwhelming although it is hard to complain as I should consider myself lucky in the current climate. Having […]
Just back in UK after a short trip and quickly into the business of looking for premises. Jill and Rosie have been busy and we see two premises today that have potential but each with different challenges. One is fairly […]
“Our branch has already installed Wi-Fi network of “Wireless City” advocated by Taipei City government. Our branch with main library, Wenshan, Tianmu, Wanhua, Sanmin, Mingshen, Zhonglu, Dazhi,Datong, Lizing, Jingxin, Donghu and Daoxiang branch have constructed Wi-Fi network by ourselves to […]
In this blog I reflect on my ongoing artistic practice, primarily painting and drawing.
3) Colour charts, Colour chart is prevalent in our daily life. In 2009, Tate Liverpool had a “Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today” exhibition. In their introduction: “…… the commercial colour chart as its point of departure, addressing the […]
And we’ve been making some art… The past three weeks have seen us teeter on the edge of endless hills of research and plunge dramatically into the raging sea of production. Something strange happens when you’ve been developing ideas for […]
I’d love to create a set of profiles, similar to the blogger profile, where I send out the same piece of text to a number of people and discover where that can lead. This only came into my head at […]
HMS is setting up a stall in the leisure centre in Long Eaton on 19th June. Erewash Partnership invites clubs, organisations and businesses to present their pamphlets, cards and wares at an annual event each year. As I ran out […]
New drawings are being shaped and I am seeking a good sized workshop to create new sculptures. I am devising ways of making new sound works too, so I feel overwhelmed by the starting of new works before finishing others. […]
We are waiting for snow! Or so tells me Raymondo, who likes to follow satellite photos and predict the weather. Apparently it tends to only snow in Pietrasanta about once a year, usually in February or March. The temparature has […]
Bold yet simple forms frame the clay’s natural qualities; light enhances the surface flaws and the physicality of the surface. Inspired by natural environment I aim to engage the viewer with the fragility, strength and beauty of the laminated clays […]
I am kicking myself! I completely forgot about the Antique Textile Fair on Sunday. I’ve been waiting for 3 months to get a chance to buy fabrics that I can use for my next body of work. I can’t believe […]
A piece of text about something that describes the landscape as well as the journey and hopefully gets to the final result. The work is about the process someone once said. And one mostly avoids, or tries to avoid, the […]
The layers and layers of primer on the canvasses are finally finished – painted a couple a day, rubbed down inbetween each coat. This afternoon I decided to create vertical lines using glue and sand, but before braving the Narnia […]
Paula Lockett Today the group has been setting up the exhibition, hanging paintings and placing sculptures. Initially I thought that where the items to be exhibited had been placed was where they were going to stay. It turned out that […]
I was sat looking out into my garden this afternoon and what do I see scurrying from under the fence? Huh, two little Mice. After watching them scurrying back and forth for about 10 minutes, I suddenly realised that I […]
About RAT+ talking with things Blog I wasn’t prepared for blogging to become part of my arts practice. But it has. Initially I just needed to document my Arts council funded project ” RAT + talking with things and blogging […]
This is what I have been using as my statement up until now. While I think it covers some integral points, my work seems to be ever changing, and I think some key questions are missing. Ideas of investigation, functionality […]
Today I spent time moving a projector around a room while I filmed and projected live from the installation. I found that when projected on to a wall with the projector on the floor; with room for people to walk […]
About the art Art provides artists to create artworks to argue with issues which are even invisible, potential, and hard to notice. From 1950s, conceptual art applied different artistic forms to convey their concepts and ideas. Their artworks involved with […]
Jenny Holzer…. At Baltic…. “Oooh it’s making me feel sick.” Despite a body of work spanning as far back as the 1970s; I first encountered Jenny Holzer in her first exhibition at Baltic in 2002. A series of text-based works, […]
Didn’t get much done today in college, but the ideas are flowing again which is always a good thing. I was starting to panic they’d never flow again! The third years were busy preparing for their assessment and the second […]
I spent a day with Alison last week working out how to best show my work. There were some issues about fire regulations because my work is made of paper, but I think it’ll all be alright. More work than […]
