Art making, book reading, and more
Time
A couple of weeks ago I spent a full, entire week only going to my studio to work on my own work. I realised that this was the first time in my entire career that I had done this. I am 37. It is both a strange and not strange thing for a ‘professional’ artist…
A time to be small.
long time no… nothing. I have been quiet over the past few months, on social media, and on here, my blog. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, I just don’t feel the same level of need I used to about expressing myself consistently and frequently online. I have spent a lot of…
What now, zines & more
hello again. I had prepared a January themed blog post at the beginning of the year, but I didn’t like the genericness of that, so I scrapped it and didn’t write another. For months! Give us nothing! I did! And now it’s March! I don’t see this as a bad start to the year (naturally)…
2022 byeeeee
I figured it might be a good way to round off the year with a post, and although I haven’t quite established a regular posting schedule, I figure it’s better to write when you feel moved to do so, rather than forcing a post of dross out to tick a box on my to-do list.…
Creative Resilience Exhibition!
This post got a little delayed due to me being absolutely floored by a cold. I actually had to take some time off, which is unusual for me. I haven’t been that unwell in years. Basically my brain was like an over-baked potato, so all things creative, and all things blog just had to take…
Edinburgh highlights/ ‘difficult’ collections
I took a trip to Edinburgh a couple of weekends ago, had an interesting time catching some cultural and culinary highlights. Here is a quick round-up of some of my favourites. One of my first stops was the Royal Scottish Academy to catch Ade Adesina’s show ‘Parallel’. I love Ade’s work- I could spend forever…
This week in review
So this week I finished my current audiobook listen: ‘A Cigarette Lit Backwards’ by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic. I enjoyed the audiobook version so much that I wish I had chosen this version for her first book ‘Life of the Party’ (actually it’s not available in English, only Italian, good reason to learn). Having Hacic-Vlahovic reading the…
Renting a studio
Emerging from the cocoon of study I have been working as an artist for many years, but only in the last few have I taken on a permanent rented premises in which to make my work. Post art school, or in the early stages of building a practice, this is a dilemma many artists face-…
Last week!
The draft of this was created on time and I didn’t post it! Shocking. Making Last week I started working on a brand new zine, here’s the draft front cover image: This zine will feature some of the monochromic works I’ve been creating in the last couple of weeks. Mostly these comprise of digital collages…
Last Week…
Whoops so my whole ‘this week’ post idea went out of the window in the uh… second week. Anyway! Let’s have a recap. As a quick recommendation, here’s two books that I have read recently on the subject of freedom- previously visited favourite authors of mine, ‘Everybody’ by Olivia Laing and ‘On Freedom’ by Maggie…
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