I managed to catch Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery last week. I might have missed it had not been for my mother’s insistence we go and see it and I am so glad I did. The prints […]
A formative residency in Ullapool North West Scotland produce a set of bizarre costumed characters combining elements of ‘wild’ animals, outdoor sports fabrics and equipment. Through conversations with people in Ullapool I developed the opinion that you were “as likely […]
Having proposed this project some time ago, I was equally delighted and terrified to discover I had been awarded funding- so I now have to carry it out! (Many thanks to ACE!) Off-Press/Printing Restraint has come about from two distinct […]
‘Off-press’ gigantic scale relief printmaking- against all odds.
A challenging investigation into new contemporary ways of working with analogue print media, involving the large-scale construction of gigantic hand-made woodcut prints in vivid colour.
“Public language is determined by more than composition” This week I went to the Publishing as Praxis presentation by Nick Thurston, an artist practitioner and scholar based in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies. The […]
I had my first print session today at The Print Shed. I engraved into thin plastic sheet using a handwriting gesture. Some is legible deliberately as it will be reversed. The other evening I peeled away parts of the […]
Piecing together a future in uncertain times.
A blog collecting inspiration, thoughts, ideas and more; particularly cross-disciplinary practice, material agency and new materialisms
