Hi and welcome to my blog! I would be very happy for comments to be posted here. The themes I explore in my work are: family, relationships within families, shared space, history and identity. I make installations using second hand […]
Wednesday 28 April Book intro and planning for camptrip Christine We’re off to the desert on the first leg of our foraging tour to gather images and impressions that we can interpret into print. We leave at 8 o’clock in […]
(29th April continued…) I'm making a concerted effort not to effectively realise my ideas in my head, rather than allowing the making process to also inform the concept and content. I can easily talk my way out of making things, […]
I had a conversation with an artist about a week ago, who said that what I've been referring to as ‘dresses' aren't actually dresses at all, but are more accurately read as négligés. I spent quite a while trying to […]
It's been a really busy week. Time is at a premium at the moment and sleep is the casualty. For the last week the earliest I have been tucked up in bed is 12:30 am. The norm has been 1:30am […]
BA Fine Art (Hons) accredited by Liverpool John Moore's University.
What happens when you paint every day?
Margaret Cahill, '"Pick-up"', oil, shellac, photographic component on canvas.
Baroness von Reichardt, 'ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!', Mosaic (on exterior walls of house), 19-21 June. Photo: artist. By juxtaposing an eclectic range of imagery with simple words and sayings, "The Baroness" invites the audience to re-question and think again about how they view the world. She has one of the most extensive collections of vintage ceramic decals, that she sources from across the globe and is slowly tiling the entire inside of her house with them, having already completed the outside.
Contents include: Jane Watts reports on Brighton Symposium ‘Is Design Good for You?’; Margaret James-Barber and Buffy Klama on ‘M6-M3 Underway/Unterwegs’; Anna Dumitriu profiled; plus Nottingham/Dresden review feature ‘Don’t mind the gap’. PDF version [size 4.2 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
Hover Gallery, Nottingham
17 – 25 April 2009
Deb Walker, ''Filtered Gold; River Blythe'', Watercolour, March 2009.
plan b, 'The Last Hour', performance. Photo: DBR. Courtesy: plan b.
A selection of artists in 'Profile'. Photo: Ian Gracey.
So I know it isn't New Year, but my new venture started with the New year. I decided to make a commitment to myself and to the 'What I should be doing' part of my life. I would like to […]