update december 2020
in the original plan, december 2020 was to have been the first open festive period for the museum of making. following the impact of the covid-19 pandemic this year, we’re a little behind where we thought we would be and […]
in the original plan, december 2020 was to have been the first open festive period for the museum of making. following the impact of the covid-19 pandemic this year, we’re a little behind where we thought we would be and […]
(Photo download from Project Art Works site) So Adrian Searle has written a review in the Guardian newspaper about the Jarman award 2020. Yesterday I made the mistake of logging onto Twitter on my lunch break, to find that Adrian […]
Thanks to everyone who has supported this podcast so far – it has now reached 1000 plays! To celebrate this milestone there is now a special bonus episode online featuring a conversation with artist William Furlong, founder of the Audio Arts project […]
For our second meeting I had set the text ‘Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be’ by Lucy R. Lippard, published in Mapping The Terrain, New Genre Public Art, Edited by Susan Lacy. This is a book that […]
Shauna King, Reflecting on Nature, 2020, a series of photographs using a mirror in Abbey Grove wood. This is the outcome of an experiment where I went to a wooded area with some mirrors and played around with photography. I […]
With covid comes change… adapt or… I am a member of two Scottish societies who hold annual Opens, often together, this year they have both opted to hold an Online show. Thankfully, as we need to get our work out […]
An enquiry in to understanding systems of representation.
New piece I have been working on.
I’ve looked at the list of artists that Mona gave me in the tutorial on Friday. The list includes: Phyllida Barlow, Sonia Gomes, Shin Smith, Michelle Stewart and Sara Barker. With the more abstract works, I wasn’t sure what it […]
when all my thoughts combine to create no way forward i know it’s time to curl up on the sofa for a few hours and hide under a blanket. now having done that i can continue to try to reflect […]
I had to redraw the diagrams on my iPad with pencil because the previous ones look untidy. The ones on the iPad resembled Lee Bul’s preliminary sketches or David Shrigley’s drawings. I thought about my idea in the last post, […]
It’s been a few months since I completed my creative coding training, which was part of my a-n bursary. Since that time, along with many many other artists, my projects plans have changed. Lots of projects were cancelled, but also […]
It’s been a few months since I completed my creative coding training, which was part of my a-n bursary. Since that time, along with many many other artists, my projects plans have changed. Lots of projects were cancelled, but also […]
In the tutorial yesterday, I mentioned using a roll of toilet paper on top of a sculpture in my next work. That idea was premature – I just thought of it in the tutorial. I thought more about it later, […]
We have been planning solo audience shows in our house over the Christmas period. The audient is met at the gate to our alley way, shown into a darkened room. There are speakers arranged around a central armchair. The solo […]
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