I’ve been working on this project for a couple of weeks, but have been left with a bitter taste of having nothing concrete . It’s a new idea inspired by the artist , Grayson Perry, known for his decorated ceramic […]
neglect verb . fail to care for properly . not pay proper attention to; disregard . fail to do something noun . the state or fact of being uncared for . the action of not taking proper care of someone […]
Recently, I have been questioning and thinking of whether I should speak out about the bullshit I have been through in the art world; someone who is an brown skinned Artist and British born. Who has contributed to society and […]
PARALLAX- HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? @PARALLAXARTFAIR @ASHLEIGHDIX Well given that about a third of the people I spoke to at Parallax were other artists wondering about whether they should take a still next time I thought I’d write a […]
Saturday 22nd October: My last day in Montreal. Time to firm up plans with Catherine, and take a much-needed ramble around Montreal to get a wider sense of the city. It’s been a whirlwind of meetings and visits to galleries, […]
I haven’t written this blog for over a month. The teaching term started, and I’ve been sucked into a vortex of emails, admin, studio teaching, not to mention childcare problems, and other juggling acts. We just got back from Barcelona […]
After I had presented at the Southbank Festival I headed up to Glasgow to speak there about my increasingly digital practice and the Unfixed Residency. I had a few moments to reflect and wrote this for kimaskswhat.online. There is a […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I ask the questions of myself, fully aware that memory plays tricks on us, and that reality is changed by events before and after, so that an incident fits more readily with our self image…… […]
I visited the Abstract Expressionism show at the RA yesterday – it reminded me where my roots lie, but I’m sure as my practice has developed and evolved, I’m more keen to find order in chaos, actually I think I’m […]
Back in May, when I was just starting to think about this research into evaluation and to mention it to people, I was put in touch with Ann-Marie Carey: a research fellow in the School of Jewellery at Birmingham Institute […]
This week I had a day in London to catch Georgia O’Keefe, Wifredo Lam and Bhupen Khakhar as well as my first look at the Switch House, if I had the energy, all at Tate Modern. Having said that’s all […]
An occasional series of informal, casual reports of my visits to exhibitions and other art events. I am not aiming to provide a review, only to log my thoughts as honestly as I can.
It was an absolute pleasure to meet with Klas and Lovisa this morning. Lovisa actually invited me to meet with them after I briefly mentioned an idea that I had when we bumped in to each other outside of the […]
May you be the mother of a hundred sons Elisabeth Bumiller This is the title of a book written by Elizabeth Bumiller. She is a woman that went to live in India in the 1980s and 1990s and she […]
This piece, Abstract Drawings For Dummies I: The Tiny Section of My Soul marks the start of two series of work: Abstract Drawings For Dummies and 50 Collages Before Christmas. I had been adding small sections of collage into my […]
Over the summer I went travelling to India for 7 weeks. I have been there before (I lived there for a year) and I find it a really inspiring country to be in. Its full of colour and culture. It […]
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I decided to change the size of my canvas for the piece of work, my thinking behind this is that if the viewers get close enough to the canvas that is all they will be able to see. Working on […]
Macbeth This week I decided to start a painting based on Roman Polanski’s Macbeth. I decided to choose this subject for painting, because Macbeth is a fantastic example of a film that has aspects of the sublime. Hopefully this will […]
