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*** This blog is currently dormant, but remains as a sort of archive. It may yet be resurrected! ***
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I’m very very busy at the moment; a busy-ness that seems to primarily consist of impotent, stress-driven flailing & stasis. On Saturday afternoon I took some time off & went to see some art. I feel like I’ve really neglected […]
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Another Lazarus-style resurrection for my little blog. So much has happened since I last wrote here. Here are some bullet points: – I went through a huge and stressful break-up resulting in my relocation from Liverpool to Bristol (from where […]
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At the start of the month I went to visit a very old, very dear friend in another city. He’s a little younger than I, just about to graduate from art school and step out into the world for the […]
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Oh dear! Again, such a long time between posts. I’ve been busy since the New Year with a number of things, two of them significant: – Developing, proposing and planning my first-ever community-engagement project as “lead artist”. It’s an idea […]
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Oh, the irony. I publish a gushing post about how I intend to write more, and then follows little but silence, for over a month. It’s been a tough year, in many ways, but this past month has given new […]
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Further to yesterday’s post re. studio groups/home-working, today I found this sculpture by Grayson Perry, currently being auctioned to raise money for homeless charity Shelter. It is called Homes Not Studios and is a model of a semi-derelict building, one […]
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I’ve been preoccupied by the idea of ‘home’. The floods in Cornwall have transformed small, familiar places into news; a private & internal language made public. My family moved to Cornwall when I was 10, just at the tipping-point of […]
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Wow! This little blog has been selected (along with Jane Boyer’s wonderful, thoughtful blog Working in Isolation) as one of this month’s Choice Blogs! Many thanks to Sarah Rowles – though I have to confess, I’m more than a little […]
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Another silent interlude. I’ve a post saved, half-written, about art fairs & gallerists, but it doesn’t seem relevant any more (& I’m sure that any readers will guess my views on the matter!). I’ve been battling bad luck at every […]
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Sleepless last night, and thinking hard, the way I tend to do when I am pinned to the bed by exhaustion. (A sort of captive audience for my mind!) It occurred to me that there is something very sad and […]
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It’s been a long time since I last wrote here – almost a month! It’s been an extraordinarily rich month, too, which found me stumbling upon so many enlightening & revelatory things, & wishing that I’d had time to blog […]