6/ SUMMARY: JOURNEYING FORWARD Our day in the studio was the first step towards what hopes to develop into a longer term collaborative partnership. Linda’s response to the day had shown that she was happy to work with me in […]
Starting Re:view process Post One […]
A little update…. It’s been 18 months since the last post and life has settled down after a bumpy ride. The good news is the cost of the service charge has been reduced and it is finally being administered in […]
I Started work on another piece today. I have reused canvases that I was not pleased with and put them together like pieces of a puzzle. I think that its important to try and keep as much out of landfill […]
When we look at our art practice, are we bogged down with how we think we should be doing it? I went through the first dip last year. Aside from feeling like I was way too close to the edge, […]
We have moved. And we have begun to ready the space for the exhibition. Here is the facebook page with info about the event… LAST ONE TO LEAVE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS But incase you can’t access that link, here […]
In the Company of Women. Three posts ago, in Comfort Marks I mentioned being invited to a workshop by Clare Smith and Rosie James however, unable to attend, held my own solo workshop. Well happily Clare and Rosie invited me […]
A new report published today by the researchers behind last year’s Rebalancing our Cultural Capital, reveals that Lottery funding of the arts in England is largely benefiting the wealthy to the detriment of the country’s poorest and least arts-engaged communities.
Taking some time to see what rises to the surface since returning from Jamestown NY a couple of weeks ago, and through reflecting talking with family friends and fellow artists, I’ve realised that its the conversation and relationships which are […]
Over the Easter break I have had some of my paintings framed and done more work on two of my canvas paintings (with a view to choosing some of this work for my final degree show). I’ve also had time […]
I have finished printing my 90 flowers! Some of these I printed onto wet Somerset paper and some onto dry. Where the paper was dry I also splattered water so it made the silkscreen inks bleed and this effect was […]
I have been writing the last chapter of my dissertation and came accross a few quotes from a texton Ana Mendieta which I feel are relevant to my degree project and studio practice. “I am an artist who feels that […]
Although this blog is intended primarily as a transcript of my creative process, I wanted to spend a post writing about the use of social media in an artistic context. While I traditionally felt this was very much a separate […]
…WIPED CLEAN THE WHITEBOARD, TIDIED THE STUDIO AND FOUND A CORNER FOR THE GROWING STONES… As always in my practice, I tend to have several strands of work developing at the same time. What generally happens is that they move […]
Back from Jamestown, NY a week, and am still processing.. hopefully over the next few days I will be able to begin to articulate some of the experiences, encounters and conversations which made my time there, and being part of […]
Construction Project Day #19 I built a den! With the intention of using no lighting element within this work, I built a cotton ‘shape’ within my space. I would have preferred it to have been a perfect cube with stretched […]
Construction Project Day #18 Day 18 was full of doubt and uncertainty. After discussing my ideas (up to this point) at the weekend it seemed a hindrance, rather than helping me, it had halted my thinking. Each new idea that […]
Rereading through what I have written, it surprises me just how little I speak about the artist… the maker… the practice I pursue… my intentions. What I get is the teacher… instructor… provocateur… Why is this? Why this lack of […]
Reflection Now seems like a good time to look back over what I have done so far and where I see my work heading in the lead up to our degree show. Before Christmas my work was very different to […]
On friday evening I used my dear old laptop at the studio to write a post but due to the computer’s age I could not upload it … now it is Monday and here it is … It was great […]
The sixth edition of Glasgow International, the biennial festival of contemporary art in Scotland’s biggest city, is the first with new director Sarah McCrory at the helm. On the eve of its public launch, she explains why both laughter and tears are important in art.
A couple of years ago I bought what was listed as a 1930’s baby’s sailor-suit on ebay. It arrived carefully pressed and folded in layers of tissue paper and the moments of unwrapping were precious. A gift from the past […]
Construction Project Day #14 Lots of people have been interested to hear whether working in such close proximity to my mum in the studio affected what either of us made on day 13. It was certainly a healthy exercise as […]
It ocurred to me that perhaps I should research other artists who have made FGM a subject for work. Paula Rego, did a series of etchings on the subject in 2009, called Female Genital Mutilation. These were exhibited at the […]
