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AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I find it interesting how a short question/comment from someone unknown can spark a train of thought as you answer: Stranger: The lyrics are really personal… how do you start writing a song from something […]

Good evening and Happy New Year to you all. This blog entry will be slightly disjointed and I will jump from one thing to the next – apologies, I have a lot to share with you and not much time. […]

29th October This performance was called Rainschemes for Insomniacs and incorporated a large scale painting and a symbolic object, a tree. The tree was placed in the middle of the performance area so that the branches reached out and upwards […]

24th October The Spill Festival of Performance arranged by the Pacitti Company had asked the University if any art students wanted to volunteer to be involved in one of Shaun Caton’s performances. I was very interested in performance and working […]

  Ah, well, you see… its like this. Did one, then another and then … well.. time, sort of, just … went. I’m still in a sort of Bermuda Triangle, between art, architecture and real life. There are ideas “in development” […]

Lake Garda Series, Monte Pizzocolo and Monte Castello (L985) 26 x 16cm. 2016. Mixed media: graphite, colour pencil, soluble crayon, acrylic and pastel on white paper. Signed and dated on reverse.

Is it true that artists are only as good as their last work? No. But this is how it often feels. In reality what we might call a body of work stacks up – but if you have a poor […]

‘It’s so obvious when I think about it – how much my mood is affected by the environment in which I find myself and how that in turn, impacts on the work I make. Caught up in the general busyness […]

i love the notion of how january 1st each year is a beautifully pure state in which multitudes are possible.  in those first few hours of the new year all the best bits of history informing what becomes into existence. […]

I was very excited about the idea of being part of a Film Festival in Morocco and to finally meet the people I have been exchanging emails with. I felt really grateful and honoured to be selected for this bursary […]

Throughout the posts I’ve outlined the progress of the project and the working processes that I adopted during my visits to Colne and Nelson and while developing the print-based work. Below I’ve compiled a series of images that document the […]

I’ve been procrastinating for too long, too much cerebral thinking and not enough dumb making (so my tutors are telling me). So I have a concept an feeling which I want to evoke. In short it’s the idea that one can be […]

Well, we are still here. Persevering against all the odds. Since getting established in permanent premises in April 2013 we’ve groped our way along, managing to pay the rent on a building and all the associated costs of maintaining an […]

The conclusion of my development work for 2016, was a series of tutorials with Harry Blackett of An Endless Supply. I took to the studio, a pile of notes and sketches from my SRT classes, which I edited down and formulated into a small fold-up […]

Studio visits and mentor sessions with Darryl Georgiou formed another strand of my development this year. Darryl is familiar with my practice, and has supported the development of my work via opportunities to work with his MA students at Coventry […]

So just when I thought I had finished, I was awake much of the night thinking … and it always strikes me as remarkable but strangely right that my working process often involves going back to the beginning, fishing out something […]

  Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is an innovative approach to dance and movement training developed by Joan Skinner in the early 1960s. SRT utilizes image-guided floor work to ease tension and promote an effortless kind of moving, integrated with alignment […]

I sat down with Kenn Taylor, for a chat about participation, context and public art. Kenn Taylor is Head of Participation at The Tetley, and is leading on their part in the Dewsbury Road project. The Tetley have been asked […]