I have now spent just over two months here in Stoke-On-Trent as part of my Graduate Residency. And again my weeks have been filled with exciting activities along side my own developments in the studio. Here is what I have […]
Toby and I went to South Square today for a bit of R&D and the family arts festival. I was looking for visual remains/leftovers from previous exhibitions/activity in the space as a starting point for my drawings. Downstairs some wool […]
This blog will document the rest of my 6 month residency at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, which culminates in a final exhibition in the gallery space at the end of January.
My creative reflections were all discussed in my previous blog post. I discovered more than just artistic revelations on my residency. Now I am back from Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn in Cumbria, I am pushed back into city life. I […]
After finishing my book yesterday, I was left with lots of different ideas for how to start testing and playing. I wanted to carry on with the mini-projects I had begun to set myself (I like good project), they were […]
Today’s mini-project revolved around the notion of how we remember surface colours and how our eyes respond to light. Batchelor writes about the way in which we see colours as the property of the object. Even in different lighting conditions; […]
After an interesting first day of exploring the estate where the Merz Barn is located, I tried to set myself to work on something, anything. I struggled. I had put way too much pressure on myself to fabricate something, but […]
My interim exhibition is now on at Airspace Gallery in the window space. The show includes a selection of works made so far on my Graduate Residency here at Airspace, giving a taster of the works to come. The show […]
This month I began my residency with Bank Street Arts. The first thing on my to do list is to raise my target of £650 to get the project under way, so I’ve launched a crowd funding appeal with Indigogo […]
I am thrilled to have been selected for a three month residency working with marble at the very prestigious Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Italy. Here is whats happened..
I thought you might be interested to see how my experiments/artwork using Halen Mon salts are progressing. I’ve been using the chalk (washed from the salt) as a ground on the surface of glass sheets. I then cover with salt solution […]
The end of the Surface Arts and Rumpueng Artspace Residency saw two more actions from Girl Gang Chiang Mai. We showed shoppers how to ride an escalator like a rainbow and how to pause time whilst camouflaging produce in a […]
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At the end of August I moved to Stoke-On-Trent to begin a Graduate Residency at Airspace Gallery. It has now been just over a month since I arrived. ‘Airspace Gallery is a collaborative, artist led project in Stoke-on-Trent, providing professional development […]
This blog will document my current residency at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-On-Trent.
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Residencies are as diverse as the practitioners, organisations and environments that host them. From fee paying to sponsored, rural to urban and global to local. They provide a matrix for investigation, invention and exploration (at best) and at worst they […]
Something strange happens to me on residencies. Whether it’s the new environment, or the new people, the desire comes. It surprises me every time. No, it’s not for me. Not my thing. But here I am again. Completely and […]
Over 24hrs into experiencing a new continent (South America), a new environment (the Uber Uber Corporate Conference) and a language that ‘belongs’ to many countries ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Portuguese_Language_Countries ) I am more sure than ever that my practice exists within an intra-silo space. […]
so I’ll see you in 26 hours. 3am. no exchange of number, and did I catch his name correctly? Was I really thinking about climbing Magic Mountain, in the dead of night, with a someone I just met? The […]
A weekly blog about my time on the Flourish Residency at Cuckoo Farm Studios. http://www.cuckoofarmstudios.org.uk/
Following the talk I gave at Rumpueng Artspace I was invited to give the same talk to a cohort of sculpture students at Chiang Mai University (for which I was paid a fee – ‘its policy’). Apparently the students are […]
So the emailing begins trying to re-connect with contacts in Finland and finding the right people to talk to in Manchester. I have had some amazing contacts from Julie Ward NW Labour MEP who has helped network me with Geoffrey […]
After a great weekend visit to Mai Rim for a party and a swim in a beautiful waterfall, I spent some time preparing to give a talk about my work, and host an English themed ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’ – […]
In October I’ll be starting a yearlong residency with Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. It’s going to be a cross-stitch based project in two parts: I’ll be creating a large scale cross-stitch myself based on the mythical Ancient Greek Moirai […]
Listed below are the comments written by the passing public in Tampere and artists at the residency studios of how to twin the cities together. What I found was that ‘Art’ wasn’t much of a priority in the general publics […]
