The painting you see before you is literally buzzing. It’s a good representation of my brain right now. I painted it with great emotion, inspired by a piece of classic Spanish cinema called The Spirit of the Beehive (1972). Bees […]
“Active listening is technique that is used in counseling, training, and solving disputes or conflicts. It requires that the listener fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said. This is opposed to other listening techniques like reflective […]
In my last post I described the process of making a maquette for one of my new cloth sculptures. The idea for the sculpture came about as a result of seeing some running shoes in a display case in a […]
Featuring over 100 artists across 12 venues around Coventry and Warwickshire, the second Coventry Biennial is titled The Twin to reflect the city’s key role in founding the twin cities movement and to highlight current social and political issues. We take a look back at our recent Instagram coverage, with highlights from the shows at The Row and The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.
By mid April, I had sorted out the technical and material issues related to the new work I wanted to make for the Mythomania exhibition – but the actual designs were still in need of figuring out. The nature of […]
This week I am exploring the potential of heat responsive materials and forms. Thermostatic bimetals are exciting materials consisting of two or more metallic layers which have different coefficients of expansion. They respond to changes in temperature, curling in a […]
I’ve abandoned the green monstrosity. I may chop it up for collages or something at a later date… Yesterday the opposite happened. Over the weekend I cut another narrow strip and laid some paint down. I’ve been using a combination […]
I’ve been working with discarded materials for about 4 years now. The ‘discarded’ is either rubbish (crisp packets) or unwanted items (an old bamboo blind) I find on the streets around my studio, or on the towpath around my narrowboat, […]
This week’s selection of exhibitions includes a showcase of works by artists based in and around Cambridge, a painting show in London exploring the psychological and sensory side of landscape, and a sculptural installation in Newcastle that transforms non-recyclable household waste into rock-like sculptures.
From the archives: Dialogues: Art, Performance, Film at Rich Mix, January 30 2014 “Conversation makes the world go around. And in recent times creative works of conversation have been a forceful part of contemporary art practices, ‘relational’ and participatory performances, […]
I went to the Museum of Science and Industry and saw the £50 banknote shortlist exhibition. The exhibition had few artefacts but there was an enigma machine which the selected scientist for the new note Alan Turing famously helped crack […]
Really pleased that a piece of mine was included in Michael Borkowsky‘s (fellow a-n blogger) exhibition Perfume as Practice AW19. I wish I could have gone along to see it but having to make 30 more drawings for my Beachtime Stories […]
It’s funny looking back on the previous blog posts; it’s been ages since the first couple of posts and it’s quite interesting to see how things seemed in the early stages of the project. The project is almost finished now, […]
‘‘Genea!’, says Marauder’ a show by Richard Taylor that included video, sound, 35mm slide projection, sculpture, photography and performance.
After my last post I realised I should probably give some background about my work, to provide context for my current project. I’ve been a practicing artist since 2008, when I took part in my first exhibition in Southampton. The […]
I went to Handforth on a site visit with Dwell Time today. It proved to be quite a long journey by train but a really great meeting and we made use of the train journey to catch up and plan. […]
New Contemporaries Preview at Leeds Art Gallery I arrived in time for the speeches, looked around the show and talked to some colleagues/friends. We went for drinks after and talked about nepotism in the arts sector. Whilst these types of […]
Looking forward to undertaking professional development and mentoring with experts that will advance my arts practice to explore Virtual Reality (VR) as an art form, as opposed to using it as just an emerging technological tool. My proposed bursary activity […]
