I find myself in the parks this week; absorbing, looking. Park Montsouris, opposite the apartment where I am staying in the south of Paris, was built by Napoleon III and Baron Haussman and opened in 1869, it was designed in […]
Notes from a DIY residency in Paris.
I decided to go to the garden later in the day and although my decision had nothing to do with the weather as going later was already part of the plan, it turned out to be very fortuitous as the sun […]
Some final photographs of Lerwick: “slightly old-fashioned” is meant to be a compliment. Aberdeen is not certainly not old-fashioned; dour perhaps, but up-to-date. It has a massive harbour sealed off with high fences, so that you couldn’t fall into […]
The seals were having a people-spotting Away Day today: I was bagged four and possibly five times on my wanderings along the shore today. At the time, I thought they were grey seals (Roman noses, you know), but checking […]
Generally speaking I have not been tempted to sit and spy upon people from my vantage point on the rock: there are, quite frankly, more interesting things to look at. (I make an exception for the men spraying marks […]
At the beginning of yesterday I was wondering what the protocol that Val was bringing to the studio actually was. As I thought it was the plan: a systematic preparation and way of working to ensure that everything that needs […]
2015-01-26 Friday before heading back the UK I attended Graham Harman’s presentation and question and answer session at Moderna Museum here. I have to confess that I have not read anything of his, nor heard of ‘speculative realism’. His talk […]
What a very different week at the studio! There are artworks being made and thought about!! My upcoming show will feature a number of new works that are inspired by missing pieces in a second-hand jigsaw that a friend and […]
