This week has been mainly studio housework in preparation for developing the material collected during the residency. In between clearing the decks, I have been re-scanning all my sketches as high resolution images on a flat bed scanner, and regaining the […]
Le Cube is an old apartment transformed into an art centre situated at 2, rue Benzerte, 1er étage, Rabat Tél : +212 6 61 18 64 41 [email protected] […]
A couple of weeks ago I carried out my second residency day this time visiting Nelson, a neighbouring town of Colne and home of The Shop. I’ve previously mentioned The Shop, a creative space ran by In Situ, and the support […]
Now that the residency is over, I am starting to analyse the material collected and prepare to develop work in my studio. This blog will be updated each week with a post about the progress of my project. So far I […]
This blog charts my residency in Potterside Woods in North Yorkshire. In the past few years my practice has become increasingly site-responsive. A city girl until my recent move, this residency will allow me space to explore my practice in my new rural context.
Kate Pahl, Professor of Literacies in Education at University of Sheffield, discusses what artists bring to academic research projects, and identifies some of the challenges artists and academics face when working together. Based on an interview by artist Steve Pool.
Over the weekend I posted a brief round up of my time in Colne last Friday and today I want to go into a little bit more detail about how the day went and how I felt about it. As […]
My residency day in Colne took place on Friday and it was a mixed experience for me. For the past year I’ve had my heart set on a residency believing it to be the key to finding out where my […]
Day 20 The weather kept the site closed all day so I used the time to get other things done. In the morning I went to the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall to measure up a small room, for an exhibition […]
There are now only three days left of my residency here at the Ness of Brodgar. We had fine weather today but the forecast is so bad for tomorrow that the site will be closed. In order not to lose […]
This week I’ve finally made some progress with Think, Question, Print and I’m hurtling towards my first residency day in Colne, Lancashire. I haven’t been completely neglecting the project over the past few weeks though; I’ve been making plans for […]
After settling on a location for my self-directed residency I need to begin thinking about what I want to achieve during this time. The main aim for the research day(s) in Colne, Nelson and (possibly) Brierfield is to immerse myself […]
Saturday In the afternoon, I gave a talk about my residency at the Pier Arts Centre. The room was full, with a mixed audience of local people, archaeologists and others from the site. After giving some background to my work […]
This morning I visited Orkney Museum in Kirkwall for a meeting about a potential exhibition there next year. They have a small space next to the Archaeology rooms, which is ideal. It is great to be able to visualise a place […]
Bad weather meant people were more willing to give me 15 minutes of their time to come indoors and have their portraits drawn. But some intrepid archaeologists kept going. Today’s portraits Catriona supervisor in Structure 8 and Ben supervisor in Trench 10 Mark and […]
This morning the site was closed so I spent some time preparing my talk for Saturday at the Pier Arts Centre. It’s called Work in Progress and is quite hard to put together, as the work to date is really […]
Today I met two experts who showed me treasures. Pottery specialist, Roy, who let me draw a magnificent piece of a Neolithic pot and a small piece of fired clay, with what appears to be the impression of a finger. Afterwards, the ‘Rock […]
As part of the touring project idle women (on the water), idle women launch Stories in the Skies, a summer programme of theatre, visual art and writing in Lancashire.
Two portraits this morning, with sound recordings explaining archaeological procedures, in the trench and for finds. While waiting to draw Anne, I was able to draw her being filmed with an expert examining a find. This afternoon, I made a number […]
Today was Open Day on the Ness of Brodgar Dig. Despite bad weather crowds of people came to see how the excavations are progressing. The rain limited my drawing time but I managed two drawings during the (almost) dry spells. […]
Today, the dig had a day off, because everyone will be working on Sunday for the Open Day. So I spent the day visiting old haunts and thinking about the project. The residency is half way through and I have begun […]
Rain stopped all action for the morning so I spent a few hours considering work to date and how it might be best to proceed. There is too much going on in my head to write about it here but I can say […]
A wet and windy day meant intermittent drawing, mainly in the shelter of the trenches. It was good to get in close to the action and see real traces of Neolithic human activity. A heap of burnt material piled up […]
