I have just got a studio at Coachwerks in Brighton. This blog was started when I gave up my last studio due to full time employment (as an art technician), so this feels momentous! I started to move in while […]
I set up Room for Imagination (an artists collective) a couple of years ago to pool skills with other creatives in order to take on commisions and create installations and workshops at various festivals. At Small World Spring Festival this […]
Images from take home Circus Project B – Acrobat Mobile – at an infant school in Brighton (see previous post for further info).
My recent work at an infant school in Brighton: As a visiting artist for Arts Week I ran workshops for four year 2 classes. Each class created a wire circus inspired by Alexander Calder’s circus. These workshops included- a short […]
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Last time I visited here I was in the waiting place, and now, I realised, I feel like George in George’s Marvelous Medicine. The pots are simmering nicely and the concoctions I’m working on are alluring and treacle like; with […]
Aims of Clos Charmant To provide a space for professional artists to generate work To provide opportunity for artists to share skills To be a place for people to come to in order to learn new skills through courses and […]
Sculpture – Sculptor I have been in Dr Seuss’ waiting place it seems. Putting feelers out in all directions getting myself lost and confused; trying to fill out a tax return and having big impulses to do some making, setting […]
Spinning plates – This feels like a good metaphor for where I’m at. My heads busy but I feel like I’m actually stopping myself from moving forward. Where am I going? How do I get there? 1) Projects for schools; […]
This summer I developed a proposal for Room for Imagination to create work at Wilderness Festival; which aimed to compliment and highlight the environment that Wilderness was set in. (Cornbury Deer Park Estate, Oxfordshire) Due to time constraints my original […]
Projects and Preoccupations is an updated title. I started this blog as an experiment: an alternative to a studio, a gathering space for ideas and images to help with consistency and fluidity in my work. Three years on..I’m still finding […]
Some images of the Bike Wheel Dome I made for Small World Festival 2010 and the Bike Wheel Shelter I made to permanently stay at WoWo campsite (Sussex) 2011. Making these shelters coincided with the launch of Room for Imagination; […]