Please excuse the quality of my images today – they are mobile phone specials! However, it is to give an idea of the sheer amount of grey I have covered in the past few days. The pictures were taken during […]
I explored the Art Trail thing a bit further but I still feel it's a no-goer for me. Laurence Rushby (currently blogging on this site) has a proposal in for an installation/performance so I'll let her pave the way first […]
Todays words towards this project are: bead, perspire, fringe, sacking, fur, whisker, ear
Another rejection causes me to write, if only to try and get down why. I asked, and got, some feedback from the said people, which first left me angry, confused, then in denial a bit, sad and now confused again. […]
I am having doubts about the Well Hall Road painting I dont know if the size has defeated me- for me smaller, finer works better perhaps….or whether the building is too undetailed. Sometimes a painting just does not work and […]
I have chosen the floral dress as my vehicle for a nostalgic journey into my childhood during the 1960s. To remember a time when my dad was a painter and decorator, my mum was the manageress of a fabric shop, […]
MEETING no. 2 On Wednesday evening 6 of the 12 (or 13?) Artists in the WET exhibition met at the pub, and things got off to a slowish start, but picked up once we started discussing the pieces that we […]
LISTENING TO RICHARD BILLINGHAM I am not usually all that interested in photography, unless it has an architectural or industrial feel to it, but on Thursday afternoon i had the opportunity to listen to Richard Billingham talk about his practice […]
Feeling SO much better last 2 days. Worked so hard all week and had so many people helping out that the 10 books in tubes are now all FINALLY……FINISHED!!!! YAY There is however a massive amount of work to do […]
I went to Derby University Degree show today and really enjoyed the work on exhibition. It was a diverse mix of work as is usual in degree shows but the work was of a very high standard, which is not […]
MY NEXT EXHIBITION Visual at Baskerville House 2009 presented in association with Art of Ideas II FREE ADMISSSION Open daily, 30 June – 12 July, 11.30am – 6.00pm Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND This exhibition has been selected […]
White paint grey paint black paint Despite the never ending coats of paint i am really enjoying setting up my space for the degree show. My work is going to be shown in various bars and venues with a performance […]
I have been awake half the night thinking about all the things I need to do before Monday. I still get ideas and I have decided to see if I can manage to incorporate them before entering the gallery. This […]
Going back to comics: The first graphic novel with a medical theme that I came across was Cancer Vixen, by Marissa Marchetto. See my review of it at www.graphicmedicine.org . I liked the autobiographical form of the book, and felt […]
yesterday was deadline day. v.strange day. minor problems with dvd player in the morning requiring another. dont think i had lunch, probably didnt help with the surreal feeling. deadline was at 7. someone jumped on my etching at 5. apparently […]
I have not been at the Antarctic for over a year now and tonight I will probably meet Simon Faithfull at his book launch at the Hunterian. The book being launched is about all the accidents he has ever had […]
I've been doing lots of DAD stuff so haven't had much time for the studio. Apart from chasing the accountant to send or supposedly resend the letter signing off our project accounts so I can get a report off to […]
Aftermath – 21st-31st May 2009 Nicholson Institute, Leek This May AirSpace was on tour, well okay it was only one venue and it was in Leek but it was a really great opportunity to see some of the work that […]
I recently found out the dates of my show at John Jones, 6thJuly-21st August. This news is met by a mild stress attack which leads me into clumsy mode. I break a glass, try and put a t-shirt in the […]
PART THREE: So, onto the speakers, first up – Linder Sterling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linder_Sterling A really interesting talk and lots of great imagery. Her talk was a retrospective look at her career, considering how she has developed. Extremely briefly (and not doing […]
PART FOUR: Sans Facon: http://www.sansfacon.co.uk/ Firstly it struck me what an incredibly strong combination an artist and architect is, especially in terms of large-scale ambitious public art. But it became clear during their talk that they weren’t just trading on […]
PART FIVE: Olivia Plender: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/29… Olivia Plender’s talk was difficult. I really liked a lot of what she was saying, (and I really like her work), but she seemed to speak at the audience rather than to them, plus she […]
PART SIX: So, Olivia described her thoughts on how artists work, and what our work may involve – Mobility: to be available to go wherever, whenever according to opportunities. Work as knowledge/immaterial rather than stuff. An unregulated sphere, which is […]
PART SEVEN: Conclusion! Finally!! Did the symposium do this: NO. 2: Expanding possibilities for artists’ professional practice and opportunities for artists in the creative industries. Not in a very direct way. Inevitably the artists speaking had followed very specific and […]
Good letter in the Guardian from Susan Jones about artists in these lean times: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/04…