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Happy to have started my AA2A residency at York St John University where I’ll be learning new darkroom skills and print processes for the first time in order to integrate new elements into my installation work as well as make […]

today i been feeling the multi layers of the word isolation, from the obvious to an abstraction of that. it strikes me that there is potential for me to explore image making – something i rejected as an undergraduate because […]

The weather continued wet and windy, the latter particularly strong and biting, which limited my work on site this week. There is a sheltered spot where the supervisor of Structure 12 has set up office.  I sat there to draw […]

It has been a cold and very windy week, with frequent heavy showers. So it has not only restricted time on site but also been difficult to keep warm. Where the archaeologists are mainly in the relative shelter of the […]

Having torn up my plan last week I have now decided to not only concentrate on what appeals but, realising that people are my primary interest, to focus on human activity. This brings me back to the original purpose of […]

Some better weather and I’ve torn up my plan. Having tried to make a list of things to do, which was beginning to make me anxious, it seemed sensible to simply go out on site and record, both visually and […]

In coming weather – clouds on the hills of Hoy While diggers continue in nearly all weather, drawings cannot happen in rain. Two days of bad weather has limited my activity on site but given time to think and access […]

Next year, 2024, will be the final year of the dig at the Ness of Brodgar, when the archaeologists move on to post excavation work. While my residency on site will end, I expect to have my own post project […]

the residency will soon be in the last month and as this approaches i want to reflect how the year has split into four quarters for me. to begin, i reiterate this was a student residency within the creative incubation […]

Today was the first day of my residency at AHH Studio Collective here in Malton, North Yorkshire. I’ve lived in the town for five years and it was just by chance, through a friend, that I became aware it existed. […]

in accepting the studio as a graduate i was faced with how to fund myself while within the residency. i say fund myself as i’ve come to realise how strategic one needs to be when relying on self generated funding […]