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It’s been over two years since I collaborated with archaeologist Keir Strickland to undertake a research trip to the abandoned island of Swona, in August 2014. Swona is just over a mile long and half a mile wide and lies in the […]

During last week I met some students at an opening and workshop event at the university. I had been contributing to the Pop My Mind project devised by Oliver Squirrel and organised also with Laurel and Karis. They are artists […]

Although I have not finished all the activities I outlined to use the professional development bursary for, I think now is a good time to look at how I have used the mentoring sessions it was mainly for. For part […]

As I predicted, I’ve been pretty quiet on the blog front since I got back from the south of Korea with one week left of my trip. I have been travelling around in and out of Seoul every single day […]

In 1929 my mother aged 9 visited the North East Coast Exhibition; one of 4 million visitors. Above is an image of the postcard she bought showing a view of the Arts Pavilion.  The exhibition cost around £7.7 million in […]

Well, it’s all over. I have a sense of anti-climax and feel quite flat after a really hectic week of making and building, meeting and greeting. Despite the very positive response from visitors and participants to the finished work I […]

Well… This is my final year… Still totally confused… Although there are still times when I feel I know what I’m doing ….I guess I’m just very worried that I’m not going to be able to get it done….In my […]

Trip to Uherske Hradiste: Day 1 Sunday –   After arriving in Brno late on Saturday evening on Sunday we went to visit a number of modern art galleries around Brno. The first gallery included work of local upcoming artists […]