Last Saturday I visited the venue for my next Perfume as Practice solo exhibition – Bureau Gallery in Blackburn. As with any space, Bureau Blackburn comes with its own set of quirks, nuances and challenges. Chiefly, the space is a […]
The American artist’s new permanent large-scale video installation, Mary, joins his 2014 piece, Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), inside St Paul’s Cathedral.
It seems to me that the great painters of religion of the past can never be equalled, so awe-inspiring were their works. And it also seems to me that these paintings were for all time, but are not the only […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I had a conversation with a colleague about spirituality and my work. How I’ve lost religion and a certain type of faith, but through my own art work, I have discovered something that suits me […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Here I sit then, in a state of bewildered contemplation about the work. For about five years now I’ve been working on things to do with relationships, mainly between children and parents. About two and […]
Yesterday was a dark day for the most accessible form of art: the cartoon and for free speech. For yesterday was the day when 3 gunmen broke into the offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and murdered various members […]
It’s open studios at my Yorkshire Artspace studio building this weekend (Exchange Place, Sheffield), and I have a pop-up exhibition called The Sea. The sea is a subject which I keep coming back to. It fascinates me because it […]