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Thought for the day: 'The straight line leads to the downfall of our civilization. It is an uncreative line'. Hundertwasser.

going to tidy up the ends today, drill holes for wires, clean and paint the bit on the windows where im projecting, sweep and clear. trying to decide wether to put background documentation, have been thinking what i should include […]

Just spent a few days with fellow MA students at Appledore Festival. Our contribution was a fire and fury ritual, where the public was asked to deposit their anger on our anger posts, followed by a ritual burning of said […]

Saturday I called into the village shop after picking up the twins from a sleepover (Maeve had saved up her pocket money for an impressive three foot stick of bubble gum) and saw a leaflet for the Wylye valley art […]

Dialogue Box 09 Ben Chetter – Unified Monotony AirSpace Gallery Window 4th – 18th June 2009 This year’s Dialogue Box series started with Laurence Payot’s new work ‘Back to the Future’ where Payot sought to challenge people's perceptions of their […]

I keep feeling like I should be doing more in my studio. Despite my ACE funding, designed to enable a 'sustained period of studio time', I still feel my practice is fractured and 'bitty'. The money has relieved the pressure […]

Today I had an interview with my lone parent advisor, but only received my student loan statement through the letter box this afternoon, otherwise, when she pointed out a job for hospital porter, I would've reminded her that a £7k […]

Crunch! We have just been notified that the HMS Erewash residency funding has been pulled for the 2009 Derby graduates. You always know when there has "been a long discussion" and it was "a hard decision", that the news is […]

I seem to be obsessed with the work of Mel Bochner right now, great as it is, this is not particularly helpful. Maybe i should think about drawing on paper more, sketches, diagrams and so on. I will take a […]

The first Wyrmling is complete! After three experiments trying to fathom the best way to fill an empty egg with something reasonably heavy and durable, I settled on polyurethane fast-cast resin – giving the egg a solid strength and a […]

Its been a busy few days that have managed to get in the way of writing on this blog so I am attempting to update as briefly as possible. My words from the last few days have been thus: witch, […]

SO nearly there, 1 week to go until we are at the gallery and setting up. STRESSSSS I still have concussion – 10 days since the accident and today is the first day I have started to feel even a […]

Its been a full week. Culturefeast in Stockport has now finished. The project emcompassed three different strands in total – From working with Cheadle writers group, to creative workshops with the public and window art work, which drew (no pun […]

Thanks, Barbara, for doing me the honour of reading my paper. Although the paper you’ve read focuses on ritual as applied to therapy, the underlying theory applies to any ritualisation, and was developed from my experiments with ritual as a […]

Recently returned from Berlin and now able to properly think about the Swim Circle. This last trip was like a stopper in a bottle that is now released. New energy flows. Richard and I plan a first swim for tomorrow, […]

Everyday Film and Photography: An exhibition of camera based work documenting, assessing and appraising The Everyday: ephemeral, absurd, boring, glorious, dull, exciting, pointless, phenomenal, focused, blurred, tenuous… fun. Artists: Barry Anderson, Tom Bamforth, Georgia Boniface, Kevin Boniface, Alice Bradshaw, Simona […]

i’ve watched the 250cc race from mugello today. the last lap was quite exciting, the shot from the helicopter showing how close the racing was. yesterday i finally realised why i’ve been feeling a little deflated all week. i’ve written […]

ARTS JOBS SUMMARY – MAY An experiment in seeing how useful Arts Jobs actually is.. and what is actually being advertised out there. Design Paid – 17 Unpaid – 36 Technical (stage/lighting/carpentry etc) Paid – 38 Unpaid – 42 Music […]

This is the last day, and I'm still not quite convinced I know what the end is. For the time being I'm leaving it knitted, though I'm going back to considering the half-unravelled idea. I always imagined that I would […]

I feel so exhausted. Pressure is unbearable, but I'm sure I'm not alone. I have finished printing all the images I need for my canvases. My book 'Fragile Form' is finished. I just need to stitch the book together to […]