Several visits to Frantsila herb farm. Anna was great. She does marketing and helps develop new concepts for Frantsila and was keen to tell me all about the company, how it grew, how it’s founding ethos remains intact at it’s […]
Late start. Partly due to tapping my fingers waiting for bikes to be set up. Went over crossroads by bike, heading for dairy farm but instead found Maun, with his logs flying through the air and couldn’t resist. He was […]
The Rackow Research Library is an amazing resource. It’s aim is to be the world’s number 1 resource on all things glass related. It’s full of fascinating books, periodicals, leaflets, dvd’s, exhibition catalogues. They archive all kinds of fragile and […]
Doubtful about the survey and the general direction of the project beyond 2018, for my last A-N bursary mentoring session, I sat down to talk to Jenny Richards, freelance curator and writer and one half of collective Manual Labours. Manual […]
We started our time in Georgia with a visit to Mamuka Japharidze. Mamuka is an artist and teacher at The Center of Contemporary Art – Tbilisi (Artistic Practice in Relation with Organic Agriculture). His house and studio is based just […]
My time at the conference spent with teaching artists and facilitators from around the world was incredible, the conversations and workshops that I took part in helped me delve into the question: What is the best way to describe my […]
During my time at ITAC4 I took part in numerous workshops across all artistic disciplines. I listened to inspiring talks from artists from all over the world, watched performances, heard from radical practitioners who are using their practice to change […]
Having ruled out Wales on account of it being ‘an arse to get to from Bath’ Andrew told me he had ‘always wanted to have a look at one of those chalk horses,’ adding, ‘it’s bang before Chrimbo but how […]
there was a time when charlie brooker presented a review of the year through all the bits of broadcast tv he’d found most weird/annoying/out there somewhere. liking brooker’s writing style meant watching this review was always entertaining and a chance […]
The Biennale of Sydney is located on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and pay respect to Elders, both past and present. I managed to catch Sydney […]
MONA, the private art museum in Hobart, Tasmania has acquired an almost legendary status and I had heard about it from many different sources. One of them was a Mancunian engineer based in Melbourne whom I randomly met in a […]
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation and pays respect to their Elders, past and present. My exploration of the Melbourne arts scene focused […]
‘SPEECHES PUNCTUATED WITH RESOUNDING SLAPS’: LAW, EXPANSION, HIERARCHY, RESISTANCE’ This was the second iteration of the Fascism and The International symposium that I participated in – the first one took place at Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City in […]
My artist bursary funded a research trip to Australia and my participation in the Fascism and the International symposium at the West Space gallery in Melbourne. Thank you to a-n – The Artist Information Company – for their support that […]
Having spent all this research time looking at different ways of approaching game design it was time to learn how to take the project one step further – into the realm of 3D. Being trained in photography and video editing […]
This year has seen the culmination of the artist’s House of Doors project, exhibited at Westminster Hall in the UK Parliament, marking 100 years since some women were first able to vote in the UK.
In this post, I spoke with Alexander Rosenberg, artist and neuroscientist about the perspective of neuroscience as the white cube of the brain. This interview follows my collaboration with Rosenberg over the last months, in which we interchanged emails, skyped […]
The term third place describes a neutral space separate from the two predominant surroundings of the home (first place) and work (second place). Described by American sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his writing ‘The Great Good Place’, the third place exists […]
Referencing the current retail decline in Plymouth, the role of the department store in today’s high street has undergone significant change. With the original model of the department store offering a distinct shopping experience either through use of space, retail […]
The uncertain relationship between the fine and applied arts is considered in the original model of the department store. Unique artworks and commissions displayed alongside mass produced commercial and domestic goods, and an importance given to the spatial design and […]
Using the notion of the test strip, the following works in progress are a catalogue of technical possibilities that can be achieved through each different medium. Working with original etchings and drawings, the works exploit the idea of the multiple, […]
