Next week we are due to attend the Northern Community Rail Conference 2019 in Leeds. We’ve had to order a Dwell Time Issue 1 reprint to have at the conference as we’ve practically run out of copies! It’s due to […]
This year’s city-wide celebration of contemporary ceramic art features an expanded programme of exhibitions and increased prize money for its ‘Award’ competition for new and innovative work.
Involuntary México my show in México City with my long time friend and collaborator NYC based artist Millree Hughes opens on Saturday and I can’t be there. I’m gutted. It’s not down to the 12 hour flight but to the […]
Art Lab at Dean Clough returned after a break over August with a fantastic September line up of David Fennell-Roberts, Gill Crawshaw and our regular slide presentation Robert Donald. I asked everybody to briefly introduce themselves and then handed over […]
The post heart attack meanderings of an ordinary man in an extraordinary world.
‘But in the darkness of the night, what haunts us are not broken systems but the faces of the broken girls. So, so many. All the time.’ Suzanne Moore, The Guardian, 2015 I looked back on my blog posts recently […]
It’s probably important to start this by giving some context to how this work came about. My practise has for a while explored elements of utopia, hope and childhood experience and this combined with the death of my Father caused […]
During the time working on the Souvenir box I had also found and bought a suitable Volvo (albeit a 430 mile drive away in Darlington) to use for the artwork. A lot of what follows in this post was occurring […]
Art exhibition about the decline of industry
My writings on ‘I’m Westward Ho!’
Discussing the experience of creating a car-based mobile artwork, ‘I’m Westward Ho!’
Since I last posted in July I’ve had a chunk of time ‘off’ with my son (whilst my Urban Rural Exchange with Karen Wood continued on Instagram), and have also been involved in a number of events, coming together with […]
Seven years on since I started back as an artist and it is still incredibly difficult to get my work recognised or shown without a great deal of effort. Most of the exhibitions and performances I have staged over the […]
This week’s recommended shows include Kirsty Harris’ paintings of nuclear bomb tests at Vane Gallery, Newcastle, American artist Kathleen Ryan’s sculptures at New Art Gallery Walsall, and Vito Acconci at Pace Gallery, London.
We had a development session at Compass Live Art in Leeds last week (we being the artist development bursary recipients with the Compass team). This one was looking at partnerships. Nicole Mollett and Sarah Butler’s A-Z of Partnerships was used […]
