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2024-11-20
I am truly appreciative of the support and encouragement that I have received from artist, curator, and academic Michael Petry over the years since meeting him 2007. Being included in his latest epic tome ’Mirror Mirror’ is an incredible privilege. […]
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2024-11-11/19
Does writing applications count as artistic activity? It is certainly an activity that artists do … a time consuming, frustrating, and more often than not a fruitless one at that. In the past three weeks I have made three applications: […]
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2024-10-01
I am travelling home with a suitcase full of vintage sequins and probably not far shy of one hundred meters of hat wire. There is adequate room for them in my case as I travelled with clothes that I could […]
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2024-09-24
It’s often when I want most … need most … to write that I have the least time to do so. Nothing collecting three new boxes of ties – seconds, nothing about the open studios, nothing about Know How, nothing […]
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2024-09-12
The sketch that I made on Friday – material needs exercise 1 – is something that I have had in mind for a while … perhaps over a year. It felt very necessary to make is on Friday … […]
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2024-08-30
Post New York post: My trip to New York surpassed and exceeded any expectations – I had an amazing time and return feeling energised and encouraged. There is so much that I want to get on with in the […]
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2024-08-15
Notes from the residency at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala Residency day 1 Tour of venue by AKB. Light and sound boards did not work, AKB to investigate and return. Felt very lost and unproductive. Set myself too high expectations. Arrived with […]
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2024-07-12
The last couple of weeks in particular at work, that is my paid work / employment, have led me think a lot about the artwork that I make and just how difficult it would be for anyone – individual, company, […]
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2024-07-09
At work yesterday I had just been speaking with a doctor about re-hanging and complementing the artworks in the eye department of the city hospital when my manager AB called me. He was also at the hospital and invited me […]
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2024-07-05
I am fascinated by connections … and by gaps – my short research-based residency at Uppsala Artists’ Club is revealing plenty of both. The residency is giving me time to focus on the new chapter of my Following Eugène project. […]
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2024-06-27
Two fantastically productive, inspirational, and enjoyable days with Elena Thomas here at the studios. We really got into our stride on day two – making something that existed between our individual practices. Day one was more mapping and testing … […]
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2024-05-31
… and suddenly May is ending. In my mind it has only just begun. Flipping through my diary I can see what it feels like that. There’s always follow-up work to do after Supermarket, there was collecting my work from […]