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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

I have received two invitations to fill in an ’artists’ questionnaire’ for Region Uppsala. After crossing the rather alarming box ’age 46 – 65’(!) came a series of relatively simple questions that woke rather complex response in me. In summary […]

For the study period we decided to have four study sessions taking place between November and the beginning of January. After having several discussions we noted down the four key topics we would like to study together (one topic for […]

I visited Firstsite the gallery in Colchester. Cornelia Parker and Hilary Cartmel were the artist I was most excited to see and their sculptures. https://firstsite.uk/event/tell-me-the-story/ As my work is sculpture based and heavily dominant around photography and film documentation, I […]