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  a year ago i reflected upon my 12 in 14 journey, today i start to consider how well my drilling has been this year. beginning this blog i had no preconceived ideas of where i would be at the […]

A new blog post already!  I wanted to tell you about something else that is going on that I’m rather excited about. I have a friend called Colette from 104 Duke Street Studios in Liverpool. We meet up often and […]

i think i’m through the worst bit of my feeling that i was no longer an artist.  i probably am not an artist that survives financially by what they create.  there’s no probably about it actually. it’s been quite a […]

We had our studio meeting last night so that Brigitte (who owns the space) could update us with the outcome of the Arts Council funding application. Of course, we already knew the outcome (we were successful) but we needed to […]

The fragility of life … Another of those moments when I feel compelled to catch up on this blog – if only to park a lot of the stuff that’s been busy scrambling my brain. I’m definitely feeling in need […]

Getting across the value of the arts to society in this unforgiving political climate needs more passion and fewer generic advocacy tools This month, I’ve been reminded how in the pre-internet days of the CND and the Greenham Common peace […]

Since 2000 there has been an unprecedented surge in self-employment. According to the RSA, there has been a 40% increase in micro-businesses and one in seven of the workforce are now self-employed. I recently joined the UK’s freelancer community and […]

Are traditional arts organisations the best vehicles for meaningful participation or should we be looking elsewhere? These are dangerous times for people and for our world of arts values. Uncertainty can cause us to be safe, edit complexity, be secretive, […]

The summer show…What an experience that was! I have to say the past two weeks have been an incredible rollercoaster of emotions- it’s a cliche I know, but so true. Leading up to the show you’re going a hundred miles […]

  New Visibility I’ve become newly visible in the university, wearing bright t-shirts that label me ‘artist-in-residence’. I chose this uniform for a couple of reasons: partly because the t-shirt is a good conversation starter with students and staff who […]

The artist self defining as magician, particularly in the context of European Modernism, has been linked to the separation of production and consumption due to the industrialised processes of capitalism. As Thomas McEvilley describes in his essay, ‘Marginalia: Thomas McEvilley […]