This year has started quite intensely, with a project at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, which apart from a day there on Wednesday, is done. http://www.grundyartgallery.com/programme/forthcom… I spent last week being snowed in at home for a day, then […]
Last night’s opening of Le Chéile in Rhyl was perforce a relatively quiet occasion, given the appalling weather affecting most of the country, apart from a few square miles on Anglesey. Jan, Ian, Andrew, Diana, Eirian and Alison managed to […]
Everyday I wake up with great intentions and seemingly swathes of time ahead but no school and snow everywhere seems to have a kind of soporific effect, trapping us in a weird kind of suspended dream world. The day has […]
More slightly wonky shots of the le Chéile exhibition in Rhyl. AC
ART: Operation hone drawing skills is still underway… have started something tiny (a drawing from a photograph of one of Rosetti’s models) so that it doesn’t seem like an unmanageable task and will post the results when it’s done. Still […]
I’ve ran out of books that I’ve read. I was going to buy some from the charity shop but I feel like it’s cheating if they’re in good nick and if I haven’t read it and finished with it.
Recording my progress I prepare to exhibit as part of a group show, Danger, at The Rag Factory in East London, curated by Kate Wiggs.
B.A.(Hons) Interdiscliplinary art and design. A broad based degree encompassing huge variety of media. My own specialist subjects are sculpture with textiles and photography.
I’ve had to defer completion of my MA for health reasons and this blog will track my ability to maintain my creative focus over the next few months. My current research interest is in personal subjectivities and the general question […]
Photographs which seek to work as pieces and paintings. The debates of art and media, artist and audience is what makes being a creative so interesting. I am really interested in being IN the work ‘That’s not …that’s’ – a […]
Research & Reflection I have been reading exhibition catalogues and books on Chinese contemporary performance artists who participated in live art events Vital and China Live. I actually saw the China Live event at the Baltic in Newcastle upon Tyne, […]
New to blogging. Will anyone read this? please click and let me know if you do, just write ‘yes, i hear you, sister’, or something. Thinking this week about how my recent installation was recieved at St Thomas’ Church, Sheffield, […]
The final stretch of the course is upon us and I have a sneaky feeling time is going to speed up from now until August and the final show. I am still wrapped up in experimental mode and resisting the […]
There was a brilliant turn-out to the private view of Fabricate. Loads of people made their way through the snow to Louise’s exhibition opening and joined us for mulled drinks. (In fact so many came along that we had to […]
I took an impromptu trip to London at the start of the week (when I should have been writing my dissertation). While I was there I went on one of my “intense gallery tours” and saw the following: I shake […]
“Fire and heat provide modes of explanation in the most varied domains, because they have been for us the occasion for unforgettable memories, for simple and decisive personal experiences…Fire is the ultra-living element.” Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire
I sometimes get those days where things are pretty perfect and the sunlight’s something spectacular and there are ideas and art everywhere. So much so that you almost need a little bottle to capture it all and save it for […]
1st New Year Bulletin Hello First bulletin of the new year so hope everyone’s had a good festive period and it’s good to be back getting into things. Unfortunately we have to start with some bad news: the first fair […]
Here are photographs from the ‘Cottage Canvas’ (painting with shadows) series … I was outside, in the Highlands, in December 2009. On another perfect day. Where there are no questions. And there is the most perfect light. I had been […]
I’ve been away a lot lately. When I visited CAC Malaga in December I saw Tarifa artist, Chema Cobo’s exhibition. It was a great place to be introduced to his work; the old market hall’s massive white-walled rooms create the […]
I cannot believe were time as gone, been busy with everyday things.. The Exhibition in Pandy Mill was great got lots of great feed back, still have not be to take it down. Was going today put weather would not […]
Expo Leeds 25-28.09.09 Saturday The best thing I went to today was Christina Kubisch’s ‘Electromagnetic Consumer’ installation. It was an extension of her electromagnetic walk pieces, but in this case the audience wore headphones in a contrived environment. It was […]
Our evaluation of last years activity is now complete and we have a shiny new business plan to take us to the end of 2012 in place! That said we now need to implement the plan, and that begins with […]
Every cell in my body is inclining towards the horizontal. After a week of anticipation – firstly for a settlement and then tonight for a break in the weather, I finally feel I can relax. I managed to make the […]
