After fossil, jet and rubbish hunting, we went to the pub for dinner. It’d been threatening to thunderstorm all day and as we set looking out to sea eating dinner, the skies turned black and downpoured. The kids absolutely refused […]
Blog about everyday struggles in artmaking practice
To celebrate is to commemorate, observe, honour, mark, salute, recognise, acknowledge. For some, celebrating is easy, as if shouting loud about achievements is ingrained. For others it is a quieter process, more understated, or may not happen at all. But […]
The Ness of Brodgar Project Manager, who is in charge of finds, together with the resident geologist ‘The Rock Lady’ encourage me to experiment in mark making with rocks from the site. These are usually silt stone or sandstone. For […]
The organisation which was founded by two painters in 2013 has announced the call out for the latest edition of its Contemporary British Painting Prize.
The winner of the award supporting emerging graduates will receive a bursary of £2,000, plus bespoke mentoring for 12 months.
Wed 29 Before leaving the UK I found a few architectural tours that looked worth investigation so decide today will be a day of action. I look online for alternative Plovdiv and find a map of in the city which […]
On the necessity of decisions. Today one of the supervising archaeologists said this: If we are not making decisions we are not solving the problem. You have to take a decision when you are digging. If it is a correct […]
Today I made a welcome return to Allenheads Contemporary Arts in Northumberland for the first of my meetings to talk about video and performance. Curator and video artist Alan Smith proved to be as useful a source of practical and […]
I’m about to start a new body of work. This is always an exciting time as I anticipate the journey ahead and what surprises it might bring. I’m currently preparing my surfaces – stretching, sealing and priming a number of […]
For our first Session, we had a lot of paperwork to get done and wanted to have a chilled out session, where new people could explore the farm surroundings and start to get to know each other. One of the […]
The architecture of walking, of space temporal movement being led by unfolding cities that act as catalysts, sleepwalking or trusting unintended paths, In a few days I will be in Njimegan…
This week’s recommended shows include an exploration of Stanley Kubrick’s design process at the Design Museum in London, plus James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ moving image work at Spike Island, Bristol.
The wonderful thing about blogging is it lays out a platform for prediction, then lets you see everything in glorious hindsight later on. I’m finding it hard to believe the things I believed. Because now I believe something else. When […]
It seems everything gets bigger and more complex – including this project. For the Ness of Brodgar this means both enlarging trenches to discover more archaeology, and amazing advances in technology. Today I revisited a particular viewpoint at the upper […]
Well we all know the weather has had a big impact this week with yesterday being the second hottest day on record and super-high humidity contributing to storms and downpours. Well to be honest, I know in the overall scheme […]
This week’s selection includes performance events and exhibitions in Farnham, Birmingham, London, Edinburgh and Cromford in Derbyshire – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
I took a call yesterday from an artist duo interested to work with me as a curator. It was an interesting chat and I hope it helped them in their project whether they work with me in the future or […]
Continuing on the gendered dialogue theme: at the beach today (yes, apologies, still on holiday) my children befriended some other children and built a dam in some rock pools at high/ebbing tide. They got on great and had a brilliant […]
I don’t mean to brag, but we’re on holiday. The inlaws have come to stay with us for a few days and are on book reading duty for the kids as per their demands. My eldest picks up this book. […]
