There was a feature on the radio about new film celebrating the life and achievements of education reformer Anna Whitlock. Listening while making breakfast my mind wandered to who I might make film about … Eugène Jansson of course! I […]
Eugène Jansson, 18 March 1862 – 15 June 1915 Eugène Jansson, self portrait, 201 x 109 cm, 1910 Eugène Jansson, I, 101 x 14 cm, 1901 Eugène Jansson, self portrait, 32.5 x 32.5 cm, c.1880 I […]
I let my mind wander and fantasise about Eugène’s Naked Youth (1907). How much can (or should) I read into the painting? The man stands in a doorway – on a threshold. This is not merely a conceit for a […]
On my run this morning I found myself thinking about the large street-facing window of the gallery where I will be showing later this year. The gallery is at a traffic-light controlled crossing, the pavement is particularly narrow in front […]
Just over a year I showed two artworks made under the broad title of Following Eugène: the first was the installation of a glitter carpet in the original navy bath house building on Skeppsholmen, the second an artist’s walk informed […]
There is still so much material that I have for/from Following Eugène. This week I presented a site-specific installation and lead an artist’s walk for the end of the Take a Walk on the Wild Side course, and yet it […]
Tomorrow I am going to meet two fellow a-n bloggers! Elena Thomas and Wendy Williams are here with their group show. It will be the first time that I have met them, and my first experience of meeting people who […]
I am starting to feel rather anxious about the end of year presentations for the course that I have been taking at Mejan. I have thoroughly enjoyed Following Eugène however I am not sure that what I have to present. […]