I can’t believe, (and am rather fed up with myself) that I have almost completed my degree and haven’t managed to get a blog up and running until now! The past three years seemed to have flown by. I started […]
As requested by the generous staff at Broomhill I shall be endeavouring to update this blog weekly (ideally of a Sunday) throughout the process of making my piece for the sculpture competition. My aim over the next 6 weeks is […]
How did I feel about using a Blog as a sketchbook? Well… it was certainly an interesting new piece of software to learn and it wasn’t easy to learn straight away because there was a lot of technical issues and […]
Capturing some of the conversations, ideas and people I encounter whilst using the A-N Re:View bursary I was awarded in 2014.
I haven’t written for a couple of weeks. College work has felt disjointed and unproductive, combined with a busy timetable of artists talks and seminars, I feel that I have been unsuccessfully trying to absorb lots of information (brain not […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Exhausted. The body clock thing is completely confused. Circadian rhythms have become a cacophony to be likened to that outside Farmfoods on a Saturday afternoon. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle has its ups, but this […]
Rejected work from the ‘Open West’ application. New work from BLURRED series Last Friday I turned 55 (incidentally, the same age as Carl Hyde the lead singer out of Underworld). As part of my birthday celebrations my wife I went […]
For her new, multi-channel video installation, Melanie Manchot has connected remembered moments from the lives of 12 people in recent recovery from drug and alcohol misuse. Michaela Nettell talks to the artist about the making and showing of the work.
It’s been a while since the Museum posted a new blog. This happens. A new idea comes into being and there is a flurry of activity and excitement – beginnings are easy I find. Sustaining the effort and keeping momentum […]
After much stress over the last few weeks, on Friday, I finally had a new fridge freezer installed. After four months of waiting for the Lettings Agents to get that sorted. And finances have returned to normal (if you can […]
Last week brought about the culmination of a collaborative project I have been working on for a few weeks. Part of our course requires us to work collaboratively in a group of 3 students to use a project space (empty […]
An artist never gets a day off, I am full of cold and yet I have had a number of projects to deal with. Being self-employed means when I am ill I have to plan and utilise my time effectively. […]
I’m just going to dive in all guns blazing and hit you with the good stuff. As a direct result of getting the a-n Re:view bursary last year I’m now finally on the right road to making a short film. It was […]
In The Anatomy of Disgust (Miller, 1997) Miller denotes that disgust is derived from two key areas accordingly: whether the feeling of disgust involves the emission of any raw bodily matter, or, from a disgusting smell, sound or sight. The […]
I found a perfect board in the workshop which although, ridiculously heavy, is a great size. It’s also coated in melamine or some such material which makes for a great surface for drawing (and erasing) the script template. First attempt […]
today i have begun a journey to discover my homepage. i’ve rejected months of workng online and perfecting what each page looks like and making sure my message and best bits get communicated in an instant. instead i’ve relaxed and […]
A thin place is a landscape’s anomaly, where the division between this world and another is particularly thin.
Now let’s get a few things straight first. I am not suggesting everyone is in a position to do an artist residency. If you have dependents, a home to look after, a job or other responsibilities it’s not that easy […]
Preparations for the show are coming along. The aluminium boards for the jigsaw puzzles arrived this morning, it feels good that they are finally here! And thanks to what might well be a ‘vintage’ salad-washing bowl but which I am […]
Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
If the weather holds I am off to see the ‘Kelpies’ at Falkirk this Saturday, as my wife has a lifelong passion and love for horses and so it seems the obvious thing to do. I suppose what interests me […]
Orchidaceous was a collaborative project from last year with the Suffolk botanist Martin Sanford. Martin is an expert on orchids and so it seemed obvious we would work around that theme. Combing orchids and human sparked both our imaginations, so […]
This is a quick energetic work I completed today. I was really testing the spacial depth as inspired by the Sean Landers paintings. What interested and excited me was the freehand writing he uses and the layering. I wanted to […]
I am thoroughly enjoying spending more time at the studio. This morning I was continuing with testing different adhesives for glitter. Last summer I spoke with Pia, the (now retired) specialist in the Royal Institute’s ‘Material Knowledge’ laboratory, and I […]
