Page 328 – a-n The Artists Information Company

within all the research and trying out of ideas there needs to be points of focus – usually a meeting.  there’s been one recently – a design meeting and for it i pulled all the disparate pieces of together to […]

The other week I had a meeting with a gatekeeper and he tore my work to shreds. He wasn’t someone I’ve ever worked with or met before. (crucially he wasn’t in any way associated with any of the organisations I’m […]

Since 2015 I have been making collaborative artworks for SALT festival including three commissioned films shot on location in Dover, Folkestone and Samphire Hoe with Joanna Jones and Helen Lindon. We have set up a new website, designed by Helen […]

It’s time to draw some of the various strands together, at least for now, and put down a few thoughts that have accompanied me during this research. It is clearly not the final word, I still have a lot of […]

I wanted to see how the google facial recognition technology works so I uploaded a photo of myself to google images and searched for other images with it. I wouldn’t have thought to do this normally.. it’s like one step […]

There’s many ways that people are trying to hinder the use of facial recognition. Most recently seen has been the actual dismantling of cameras during the current protests in Hong Kong. (Interestingly they echo the toppling of dictator monuments during […]

there’s not a cloud in the #bluesky, it’s 25 degrees and unbelieveably i’m coming down with a cold ! i’ve taken sanctuary in the living room and time to reflect upon recent goings on.  the tired unhappy not feeling it […]

I am a multi-disciplinary artist/arts and health practitioner specialising in narrative three-dimensional assemblage art that focuses on heritage and issue-based themes using place and identity as a foundation. These works often works become educational and reminiscence resources. I have considerable […]

The last of my formal conversations on video and performance was with artist and curator Cinzia Cremona. She was in Sydney and sadly my a-n grant didn’t stretch so far as to fly me there for the meeting. This was […]

Last month, I went to the Royal Drawing School in London to take part in their 2 week Drawing Marathon. This experience was the core part of my Emergence Bursary from artist-network, Shape Arts and Disability Arts Online. This blog […]

Portal/Here and There is the second phase of this community project based in Shropshire funded through the Arts Council of England. I have been working with Forestry England on a sited artwork to celebrate the centenary of the Forestry Commission […]

Here we are then… My exhibition Cause and Effect is down. Sold works are packed ready to be delivered or collected. The large drawings are rolled up again in the corner of the studio. I feel it was a successful […]

The dig is over for another year. The last two days involved packing up the Art Hut, while dodging in and out of the rain to draw and record the trenches being covered in sandbags, tarpaulin and tyres that will […]