As I haven’t blogged regularly on a-n for ages perhaps an overall introduction to The Lost Library is in order? The Lost Library is a performance in which I change the experience of joining a library into a silent enrolment […]
Later this week I’ll be appearing at SpringBoard – an event run by MainSpring Arts near Brixton in London – an evening of neurodivergent performances. I’m preparing the kit and my costume in readiness. I’m collecting resonant, exciting or important […]
The way I paint involves a ‘listening’ – a paying attention to the surface texture through touch and vision and being aware of my own reaction. Noticing what is thriving now in our immediate world – both plants and […]
If you work as an art technician, you are part of a fairly new and growing trade, which wasn’t as prominent twenty years ago, as it is today. I wanted to connect the trends visible in today’s art tech scene […]
The elements that I’m focussing on – words, seeds and something that has been lost. Seeds – plants as part of the language of an area. Language as a reflection of the landscape. Plants individually remain the same across generations, […]
Press days. They always seem like a great idea when you agree to them. They’re frequently a great idea afterwards too. The reality of them are that they can be the most stressful bit of any project. If you think […]
The Act of Reading Saturday 11th March 2017, Manchester Central Library Performance times: 11.30 – 12.30 The Act of Reading I Shakespeare Hall 13.30 – 14.30 The Act of Reading II […]
On three consecutive Saturdays in March I will present newly commissioned performances and sculptures at Manchester Central Library exploring how, why and what we read… Further details to follow… www.librarylive.co.uk/event/the-act-of-reading/ www.librarylive.co.uk/event/saccades/ www.librarylive.co.uk/event/circular-reading/ It Stares Us Down is supported by ACE, Manchester […]
Thanks to a professional development bursary from a-n, last year I had an extended conversation with artist and writer Michael Hampton. We have now turned this into a limited edition publication with a twist. It begins like this: Michael Hampton: […]
LS Lowry, The Reference Library (now Manchester Central Library), undated
“…how do you move around in infinity without getting lost? The structuring of the space can be so compelling and confusing as to utterly absorb and neutralize the narrator and to exhaust the reader…” The End of Books, Robert Coover, […]
Table of contents from Andrea Crestadoro’s “The Art of Making Catalogues” (1856)
The art historian Aby Warburg designed a library next to his home in Hamburg that included a reading room with mezzanine and a loose thematic taxonomy of its books into: Image (art history, archaeology and early cultures) Word (mainly ancient […]
