I applied to a-n in order to devise a programme of mentoring. Post-PhD completion I was feeling the need to gather myself and try to knot together the frayed ends that are perhaps frequently the result of too long spent […]
An account of my bursary activity
I am currently transforming my studio – I’ve moved and painted the exterior blue, the interior has now been insulated, I’ve painted it white and building shelves and worktops. It is an equally big transformation for me psychologically as I […]
A Conversation with Tehching Hsieh Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 7PM Live Art Development Agency, The Garrett Centre, 117A Mansford Street, London E2 6LX As marking the end of my One Year Research and Development: A Silent Opera on the Life and Art of Tehching […]
It is so easy to under-estimate the value of public engagement in R&D – there’s no doubt I’ve been guilty of this myself and have been made to think more deeply about it. In the sort of research I want […]
I am moving ahead quite quickly. Having decided not to apply for any funding for this project it has, by necessity, to be lean in its cloth cutting. Single camera – one to one is my preferred approach anyway. […]
I was so privileged to show many friends, colleagues and arts professionals my work at an event I called Resonance, we had stunning weather and it began with taking visitors out in 2 rowing boats, 4 in each boat to […]
During the course of the last couple of weeks its been apparent that my work has become focused on the body as a subject and medium. The space felt fleshy and I began thinking about bodily fluids and what the […]
It turns out that documenting the de-homing process of my own house is more interesting than showing images of de-homed houses I have no relationship with. So I’ve stopped viewing houses that are for sale. I’ve taken images of each […]
Audioblog – Please click here I had a gentle afternoon with a fairly newish but very lovely friend Sarah Goudie. http://sarahgoudie.com We had about two hours of earnest conversation over pots of tea and assorted things to […]
Great visit from Val yesterday based in the studio. Conversation was varied and ideas are developing. Val had sent me a PowerPoint ahead of her visit, and from the notes I recorded had extracted “ Efficiency and Productivity” and “Overall […]
A Covert Operation My first week on residency is a fairly covert one. I’m mostly in the background, in the corner, unnoticed. I was even mistaken for a student a couple of times. Café as Workspace I wanted […]
After having to reschedule my event three times due to health and safety issues, I held an open conversation and performance, the main of focus of my final piece for Degree Show. The conversation focused of power as an ever […]
All things studio: individual, collective, critical, reflective.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I have on top of the cupboard in my studio an old grubby padded bra. I have stuck glass-headed pins into it in a floral pattern on the outside, as if beaded. The points […]
It is not often I am so hurt and outraged by someone or something that I feel compelled to write about it, talk about it or even mention it. I would normally just brush it off or go sulk in […]
When Sonia Boué tweeted b/w images from the Oxford-London train of the globetrotter-suitcase and later her face she seemed a time-traveller from the 30s/40s, on her way to meet me at a flat temporarily located in 2014’s London (so I […]
I just posted a conversation, rather than posting in my blog, just to see how it works, and to see what sort of response I get…. https://www.a-n.co.uk/conversations/we-fear-change-our-new-blog-platform See you over there then? e
