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Residual Projects: Residency part two
Saturday 6th December saw the second part of my residency at South Square, and it was interesting to see how the lines left behind at the end of the intervention had moved as people had continued to move around the […]
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Residual Projects: Residency part one
Friday 5th December was the opening night of residual projects at South Square Gallery where I was invited to create a piece of work live. The work doesn’t have a title yet, but it involved audience members wielding 32 tape […]
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Residual Projects – South Square Gallery
My last post was about me starting to make work again after the blitz of creating a solo show, but that has been short lived as I’ve had to concentrate on fitting paid work in before Christmas and also working […]
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Making again
I’ve actioned the action plan (collating all the info about the exhibition and sending it out to contacts) so now it’s a case of waiting to see if anyone is interested in the work/exhibition along with talking to some of […]
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Getting on with it (a bit)
I’ve started to put my action plan into action. I’ve been writing up the information that I need to put together to send to potential venues and have applied to 2 open calls, one for an ‘open’ and the other […]
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Action plan
Following this week’s meeting with Louise I’ve got an action plan for getting the work under the noses of people who might like to tour the exhibition. I’ve found that my experience of writing these blogs is that if I […]
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Collaborator: Louise Hesketh
Louise is the visual arts officer for Halton Borough Council and is based at the Brindley where my exhibition took place. You may have read her blog on here: https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/visual-arts-in-halton Louise has supported my career over the past 11 years […]
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The end (of the beginning – hopefully)
The exhibition closed on Saturday, and as is always the case, the take down is over in a tiny fraction of the time it took to bring the whole thing together. Louise Hesketh, John (a technician at the Brindley) and […]
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Collaborator: Cathal Elliot
I’ve been lucky of late to have had technicians to work with me to install some of my more ambitious projects, from town centre wardens to jet wash the streets of Warrington for the contemporary arts festival last year, Monty […]
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Collaborator: Sophie Tickle
I spoke about working with Sophie in an earlier post before a-n’s website went offline for it’s update, so I’ll recap here and talk a bit more about other things that she does too. I’d worked with Sophie on a […]
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Collaborator: Gareth Houghton
In the second of my collaborator profiles I’ll talk about working with Gareth Houghton, who is a motion graphics professional. Gareth and I studied fine art together 11 years ago and have been friends ever since, although our practices have […]
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Collaborator: Karen Edwards
I had a lot of help from a number of collaborators to realise the work in the current exhibition, which was made possible by the Arts Council funding that I received. It means I can pay other artists and professionals […]