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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07 November 2020 Themes Health, bodies, communities, expression, trauma, stress, somatics. Tentacles of inquiry Reflecting on first hand experience of Long COVID. Bodies go wrong because we’re human. Realities of body and brain exhaustion. Current situation means people are enduring […]
What do Craig Pinder and Carl Gent have in common? Craig Pinder is a West End actor and original cast member of Les Miserables. I want to find out from Craig about his views on acting and how acting might […]
A global celebration of Bruce Lee,
marking what would have been his 80th birthday
