Polar bears and people power
1. Working with the ice scientists
1. Working with the ice scientists
While in the US, I had the chance to feed my fascination with all things morbid by visiting some extraordinary sites and exhibitions. In New York, I spent a day visiting the glorious Morbid Anatomy Museum. Founded in 2014 by […]
The Fellowship came at a frightening time, politically. In the UK, the Brexit debacle had just happened, and in the US we were in the final months of the US Presidential election, which would deliver a victory for Donald Trump. […]
While on the Fellowship I spent a lot of time in the various thrift/charity shops in the area. The sheer waste of consumer culture was on full display in these sprawling stores, which were themselves outnumbered exponentially by the retail […]
While working with the laser, I began to consider the most commonly touched item in most people’s lives – the screen of their mobile phone. I took a deep breath and stuck my old mobile into the laser and discovered […]
I used the residency to develop new work exploring death in the digital age. The root for this work lies in a simple act: I Googled my first lover, and he wasn’t there. John died of AIDS in 1995, part […]
One of our first experiences was a tour of the collections of the Museum of American Glass with curator Kristin Qualls. This collection and its library focuses on the history of industrial glass production in the United States, with special […]
Part 1 of a reflective blog about reevaluating my practice during an A-N supported Fellowship
Back in May I spent a week at Grafische Atelier Alkmaar or GAA as it’s known. Alkmaar – roughly a 50 minute drive from Amsterdam – is an historic Dutch town famous for its cheese market. I went to make […]
Notes from a travel to HangZhou with Macclesfield Historian Dorothy Bentley Smith (a-n Travel Bursary)
Out of the two designs Davin and I produced during my research trip to Kansas City one was successful. We developed ‘freedomination’ in response to a brief to produce a billboard design that responds to ideas of freedom, set by […]
Participants Needed! Performance Saturday 23rd September at 3pm. Corner of Spring Bank and Freehold Street. We are looking for as many participants as possible, speaking on a wide range of subjects from the size of chocolate bars to fracking and […]
English artist Hannah Rose Thomas organised an art project in Kurdistan for Yezidi women who have escaped ISIS captivity.
Since we initiated our collaboration Davin and I have had numerous Skype conversations about the project and the ideas we’d like it to address, but not what we would produce and how we would do it. We have overlapping interests […]
Rural space makes me anxious and yet here we are It is good to be open and allow other things to enact new things on your process, life, choreography, and otherwise But I can’t conceptualise in the rural space because […]
I have known Davin and admired his work for a number of years (http://www.davinwatne.com). In 2012 he showed some of my work in ‘Look Attractive’ a group exhibition of international artists at UMKC Gallery in Kansas City. In 2015 he […]
its not fair its not fair its not fair its not fair its not fair its not fair its not fair its not fair why do racist histories get maintained? why did i have to see that image with that […]
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i was so excited to arrive in toronto again i need multiculturalism everybody hates it right now but i’ll never give up on it toronto is very special for that kind’ve thing we arrived in toronto by bus this […]
This is a blog to process my journey making a new work and fostering new connections within the field of experimental performance.
Untouchable yet ever present, I find light to be one of the most exciting and enigmatic of subjects. I visited Iceland in July 2016 with the help of the AN travel bursary, to experience the length of the Arctic summer […]
Making a little van into a shiny aluminium ‘spaceship’ in three weeks for the annual parade.
A-N Travel Bursary: Research in ‘bio-art’ Amsterdam
Blog reflecting on my research trip to Portland and New York funded by a-n Travel bursaries.
The a-n Travel Bursary has provided the vital opportunity to find the sixth and final artist for the visual art project “Cicatrix..the scar of a healed wound”. A WW1 centenary project that runs from 2014 till 2018.