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Untitled blog post from "University of Nottingham Fine Art department residency."
I was proud to be selected as one of the artists in an exhibition called Web of Water. It’s in connection with Artcore and is curated by Saira Lloyd and Tracey Kershaw. The brief was that we could respond to […]
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Untitled blog post from "University of Nottingham Fine Art department residency."
8th November 2013. After all the hard work of hanging the exhibition at Deda it was a relief when the P.V came around. Considering it was a wet and windy night the launch was a great success. It was much […]
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Untitled blog post from "University of Nottingham Fine Art department residency."
I’ve been leading a double life for the past month as the Lincoln residency overlapped with my year long University of Nottingham residency. I can now confirm that I have moved into a studio in the old Dairy on Jubilee […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
Well, I survived the talk at The Collection and was pleased to see such a large audience! I had just started to talk to those who were there when about 50 more people rushed in. The seats were quickly filled […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
I’m getting close to the end of the residency and I’m preparing my talk and re-living it all and realising what a fantastic time I’ve had. It’s given me many new perspectives on life and ideas for making art. Getting […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
The Frequency Festival starts on the 18th October and that’s when my film will be shown in the Usher Gallery of The Collection, Lincoln. I’m really looking forward to seeing it at last in the gallery. It’s on until the […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
I’ve had a week of minor worries, but after a sunny weekend I’ve put it all behind me. Before I started at Lincoln I worried about my proposal. What if it’s a dull, wet summer and I can’t take the […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
An important day has arrived and I catch the train at East Midlands Parkway to go to Lincoln. I have to show my finished film to Maggie Warren and Dawn Heywood at The Collection. I do hope they like it. […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
Is it possible to be artist in residence in two places at the same time? I’m about to find out. I’m at the critical stage of the Lincoln residency. The film, Place Setting, has been made and re-made and I […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
Duke’s Wood in Eakring, Nottingham used to be an oilfield in the 1940s. Americans were secretly brought in and produced 60,150 tons of crude oil in one year for the war effort. It is now a much recovered nature reserve […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
I’m continuing to work on the film. It is a constant series of decisions of which location to start with, what to end with and how to order everything inbetween. Twentysix photographs are the counterparts to the paintings on the […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lincoln Digital Residency"
This must be the centre of Radbourne because the sign says ‘Church’. We drive down a narrow lane and it seems like straight into someone’s garden. We turn around and try again on foot . This time we find a […]