Lee Hassall More Than a Passing Pleasure: Re-playing Dorothy Wordsworth, a Reverse Ekphrasis Tour On reflection I found myself writing in both tenses, when it came to reflecting on Lee Hassall’s work ‘More Than a Passing Pleasure: Re-playing Dorothy Wordsworth, […]
I am currently working towards an exhibition with an artist friend. It will be held in CornerHouse – a community arts centre in Tolworth and I am grateful for the opportunity to have something focused to work towards. Our exhibition […]
This is a record of my research and activity during my four week residential period on a farm in Pembrokeshire, that sits on top of an expansive set of old coal mine workings. It follows my work as I explore the language of this land and my process of making.
Research relating to current commission: Remembering Together: Co-Creating Covid Community Memorials Sumi painting, inkjet printer ink on paper ink circles as a tool for curiosity, healing and expression From a collection of ink drawings, I ask public to select three […]
Then and now each slice of life slashes experience like a knife Streaming past, fast, elusive, ephemeral, unable to grasp Data, images, history, time, moulded experience, subjective – mine Yet patterns emerge, like a haunting musical refrain, gnawing at the […]
Revisiting an old friend and inspiration
The majority of my work has references to childhood and this relates to my interest in psychoanalytic thinking. I have personally undergone 8 years of intensive psychoanalysis, where I met my psychoanalyst 5 days per week. This often frightens people […]
A great artist friend of mine died recently. I want to share some work from his last exhibition.
Rabbit Girl clings to her mother. Emotions are intrinsically intertwined. Separation is unthinkable, unbearable. Every day Rabbit Girl is changing and growing emotionally and physically until the metamorphosis slows down and she has a family of her own.
All 100 pillowcases are now cast and waiting to be sanded and finished later this month. However, my research has continued and uncovered some very interesting pieces of information amongst the archive. Some years ago when I first began looking […]
I think I’ve resolved the Walton landscape. Just enough detail to nail it to a place but verging towards the abstract. I managed it by allowing my mind to disconnect and following the dictate of the medium. Tentatively pleased with […]
I have just got back from Yorkshire where I was showing work as part of Selfscapes, a group show of work by 25 artists responding to the Dalby Forest location and themes of embodied landscape, self and surroundings, self as narrative, self and body and […]
My studio is currently a hive of activity; a great relief after the cold weather making it difficult to work in there. One end is covered in piles of neatly, and some not so neatly, folded pillow cases. the piles […]
Last week I heard that my Arts Council Grant application has been successful!! The project is to work with writer Suzanne Joinson, exploring Worthing Museum’s (extensive) clothing collection and linking with stories / memories from residents in a local care […]
November: Forthcoming seminar: RSVP essential – see below. Dear All,Dr Catherine Loveday (Principal Lecturer in Neuropsychology at University of Westminster) and I would like to invite you to an informal seminar event presenting and discussing our current area of research […]
