Agricultural Festival One of our visits was to the Agricultural Festival, a harvest festival held at the mausoleum of one of the Emperors high in the hills north east of XIanyang [I fear I have forgotten which Emperor]. Amazingly enough, […]
Harvest time in rural China
The Terracotta Army at Li Shan We visited the Terracotta Army at Li Shan [Li Mountain]. The modelling of these soldiers is exquisite. It is quite astounding to see so many 2000 year old sculptures of such a high standard […]
Xi’an City Wall The city wall of Xi’an is fully restored and it is possible to cycle the 12km around the city on this wall, which we did on our last afternoon here. Found some crickets singing outside shops in […]
Mr Xia Tong Tomorrow Cam returns to Melbourne. Mr Shen will drive us all to the airport to say farewell. Cam has had a great experience in Tuanjiehu Park just as I have. He linked up with Mr. Xia Tong, […]
Recollection Private View: A paper polar bear is engulfed in a hurricane of polystyrene balls and is imprisoned in glass. This is the first scene you encounter at the Recollection exhibition at the AirSpace Gallery. It is as you […]
The Photographer’s Gallery, London
13 September – 11 November 2007
TART
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
Waterloo Gallery, London
10 October – 11 November 2007
Waterloo Gallery
9 September 2007
It’s my birthday today, but no let-up in the preparations for my Fringe Festival installation. I think we’ll treat ourselves to a meal at the local pub this evening, though! Quite a few of the items in the catalogue of […]
It’s my birthday today, but no let-up in the Fringe Festival preparations. I think we’ll treat ourselves to a meal at the local pub this evening, though! Quite a few items in the catalogue of woe of my last blog […]
Its a few days since I last wrote an entry to this blog and I find myself preparing for the return visit to inishlacken. In between packing bags and making sure I have the right camera equipment with me, I […]
This is a postscript really. Just thought I would add an image of one of the drawings I am going to put in the show in Saffron Walden next week.
September 25th Meeting at Arts Council Enland SE in Brighton
Craig-y-nos Castle Have had a couple of messages left on my answering machine from Craig-y-nos Castle wanting to discuss a possible future projects, web-site links etc. but I have been in Wales so only now picked them up. Discussed […]
Radio 4 Had a researcher from Radio 4 on. She is going to put forward a proposal for an hour long programme for the Saturday evening Archives slot. Have to confess have never listened to it but am assured […]
Today being Monday is ‘admin day’. I am sorting out some of the things for ‘The Big Draw’ and emailing all the people I need to email and writing all the stuff I need to write. Hence the blog entry! […]
Our final preparation day is on Wednesday. We will do a final survey and set up arrangements for starting the Residency proper next week – exciting. We will invite Simon over so he can see the allotment "in person". I […]
Paper Cuts One of the things Marquetry seems more akin to at the moment is the Art of paper cuts. This seems to have become quite trendy recently with Artists like Peter Callesen, Richard Sweeney and Jen Stark. The […]
September 24th We meet to choose this years AA2A artists.
What gives a particular place its characteristics? Why are some cities hip and others lame? How does a neighbourhood change from good to bad?
When I arrived at TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), a seminar given by a Nobel prize winner was just finishing. It’s that kind of place, a spacious 1950’s building reminiscent of the RFH in London, with gardens running down […]
The other set-up in Unnikrishnan's lab was an apparatus for measuring the speed of light, something that has been done countless times before. However, during a couple of evenings spent with Unni, I came to realise it was part of […]
grrrr. i just wrote a long and very eloquent blog introducing you to ‘Writing From Live Art’ and telling you how three of the initiative’s writers (myself, Mary Paterson and Rebecca May Marston) have confirmed funding from the Arts Council […]
