The Big Freeze

Out in the woods on Christmas Day - what else would I do?

Re-Trace

No text in these but I'm pretty sure i can see some w's in this one.




Last night i took advantage of the freezing conditions, the snow and the windless night to try a prototype installation. Here are some of the results.

New Screens

I have been a bit obsessed by these two buildings for about 20 years. Erfurt - when it was in East Germany still. These are the roughs for the exposure onto the screen

Erfurt. 2009

New Letterpress

You Put the Ouch in Touch 2009

Burn Baby Burn

Burn Baby Burn. 2009. Firebrick, Text, Bracket, Pigment

AA2A

YAY!! These coming months I will be taking advantage of the access offered under this scheme to ferret myself away in the university print studio – playing, thinking, experimenting and creating.

NEW STUDIO

A new venture. This week I took the keys of my new studio. I haven't had a proper studio since Waygood. That's a long time. It was there i realised the benefit a studio gives. However there is always that "Can I afford to have it? - Can I afford not to have it? dilemma. So I have taken the leap and will spend the winter making/creating in a much more focussed (hopefully) way.

A blurred camera phone image to give a hint of the flavour

At the moment it's bare - apart from the first few bits i could take. It will be becoming more studio like in the very near future. It's going to have to lure me in and make that hour long drive seem like a good thing - i know how grim winter driving is - and that whole leave in the dark get home in the dark thing . At the moment though it's all joy. I just picked up an overhead projector off freecycle so that will be making it's way studio bound soon. Beginnings - always exciting as they unfurl.

ARVON 41

Much to my surprise - and joy oh joy! I have been awarded an Arvon 41 bursary place at one of the Arvon Foundation's (have I used my apostrophe correctly?) residential writing courses.

Embossing

Paper, Embossed Letterpress. 2009

A bit too much embossing

Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

Paper, Embossed Letterpress. 2009

Outside In

On the 7th of august I was Lucky enough to attend the opening of Outside In at Pallant House Chichester. This is the Biennial of Outsider Art and it is a real privilege to be in such a brilliantly curated exhibition. Marc (Steene) and Kate (Hadley) have done an amazing job in pulling this off. The show runs until 8th November. http://www.outsidein.org.uk/

UNTITLED

Untitled, 2008. Acrylic, Paper

You remind me

Letterpress, acrylic, paper. 2009

Don't be so hard yourself

Letterpress, acrylic,paper 2009

Ouch, Screenprint, 2009

Are you alright?

Bethlem Gallery, 2009

Liar, Liar

Liar Liar, 2008

Text on Mirror, Cabinet

This was made in response to a residency at the Affective Disorders Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. Exhibited in the Mind the Gap exhibition at the Discovery Museum (Newcastle) and The Bethlem Gallery, London (Feb 2009). For some reason in the format conversion the colour has been drained.

Liar, Liar (Detail)

Liar, Liar (Detail) 2008

Text on Mirror, Cabinet.

This was made in response to a residency at the Affective Disorders Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. Exhibited in the Mind the Gap exhibition at the Discovery Museum (Newcastle) and The Bethlem Gallery, London (Feb 2009).