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I’ve been reading the Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker, and i’ve found it quite interesting. Not only for the content and ideas within it, but also for some of the quotes i’m getting from the book. Quotes which could easily […]

Apart from writing various funding bits and doing other stuff that has kept me at the computer, I am pleased to have work in two shows. Outside the Lines in Folkestone runs until 28 January at a very nice space called […]

Michael Raedecker(B.1963) Michael Raedecker is a Dutch artist currently living and working in London.He first trained as a fashion designer studying at the Gerrit Rietreld Academies,Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie ,Amsterdam before retraining as an artist at Goldsmiths College in […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here This morning  has been a bit rubbish to tell you the truth, and it has all been of my own making. I went to a really great gig last night, a couple of friends […]

So I will be soon going in to day 3 of the residency and I’m feeling tired but buzzing! The ideas have been multiplying and have kept me awake for the last 2 nights – good and bad news! To […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Yesterday was a difficult day. I had cleared and cleaned the studio and my desk. The space in front of me was emptied of all that wasn’t directly related to current thoughts… Basically two […]

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 […]

Effective protesting for activist Sarah Corbett: pretty, non-threatening scenarios – picnics and cupcakes, or handkerchiefs embroidered with the truth – to engage and draw people in, allowing the conversation to begin. Craft: invaluable tool to bring people together, encourage them […]

Still painting; it has something to do with the time of year, when there is colour about. Painting makes me anxious; I feel overwhelmed at times by the theory and discourse around painting; is it ok to paint? what does […]

It is always a surprise as well as gratifying when an aim becomes a reality, especially when that aim starts out more as a wish, in this case one stated in my original Arts Council grant application, which was for […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Thinking about Sonia Buoé’s response to my last post on nine women… Precision. Where does precision come from? My stitching is precise. Now, it is how my hands speak for me, and possibly other […]

This week I: Finished stitching cube 2. Now titled 21.50 Started cube 3. Stitched for 19hr 23mins. Began reading Tanya Harrods new book ‘The Real Thing – essays on making in the modern world’ Connected with Artist Ness Donnelly who’s […]