What is the space within the den? Is it a negative or positive space? Without the chair is it negative with the chair does it become positive? This represented den space is created within another cubed space, the cubed space […]
In the tutorial, Mona said I could be playful with the work and add something unexpected in it and to incorporate the irrational and to think about the textures of the materials. I randomly had an image of my sculptural […]
What is a den? According to the Collins ENGLISH DICTIONARY (2016). den: n 1: home of a wild animal 2: small secluded room in a house 3: place where people indulge in a criminal or immoral activities Den a naming […]
Sol Lewitt Drawn to the 70s “I think I’m grappling with the tension between the rational and the irrational forms of making work.” Subconscious, spiritual – incorporate into work Jung’s Redbook Find a way to bring the two together in […]
Outside the days are short, dark and the earth is wet. Large Oak leaves are falling around my studio, and providing an incubation for rebirth. I am finishing a project I started on my Forest School practitioner course, four years […]
What do Tom Hackett and Beric Livingstone have in common? Tom Hackett is a sculptor who walks around town wheeling large yellow silicon dogs in a wheelbarrow as a pretext for holding conversations with members of the public. He tells […]
The rubbings from the wooden flooring is at the inside of this item, and the outside is constructed digitally using Illustrator. The wood grains looked like fingerprints, so I named it Fingerprint. Free association is a psychological technique used to mine […]
Constructivism, minimalism, surrealism and the unconscious. I’ve researched these topics and was more passionate in finding out more information about surrealism, dreams and unconscious, and would like to research this further than the first two listed. I have an interest […]
(This photograph was taken during my commission by Aidan Moesby for the Thresholds Online Exhibition at MIMA, but doesn’t form part of the final selection for my photographic series Safe as Houses.) How does it feel to be an […]
In August 2020 Aidan Moesby commissioned me to make work for the Thresholds Online Exhibition at MIMA as part of his DASH Curatorial Residency. I wrote this piece for Aidan to explain my work. I share it here as […]
(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 […]
The trials and tribulations of setting up an exhibition in Hastings in the Covid-19 landscape.
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, […]
This is the story of my journeys to the mystical land of Virtual Reality, offloading the insights I brought back on my ship.
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 […]
New paintings emerge every week from the studio of David Frank Harding. It’s Pat today! Who will arrive tomorrow?
Ying Kwok (Festival Director and independent curator, HK), Lindsay Taylor, (University of Salford Art Collection), and Sarah Fisher (Director of Open Eye Gallery) discuss how the Peer to Peer: UK/HK programme developed, the themes addressed by the artists involved, and the importance of digital platforms in the current climate.
From June 1st 2019 Nick Grellier made one small drawing every day for an intense and perplexing year.
67 paintings have been included on the John Moores Painting Prize 2020 longlist and will feature in an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery from 12 February to 27 June 2021.
