I was privileged to take part in an online residency in early December 2020, facilitated by Cel del Nord, which is based just outside of Barcelona. Unlike the residency I did earlier in the year with Proyectco’ ace this one was an intensive over one week with a smaller group, and I was keen to… Read More →
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Anthropomorphising technology
In a recent discussion of my work I was asked whether I was anthropomorphising the computer, and if so why. As I explained at the time if it sounded like that it wasn’t intentional, I may have referred to the computer as ‘it’ a couple of times and that was purely sloppy language rather than… Read More →
Singularity
The brief: …create works that are surprising and inventive…the value of collage cannot be overstressed as a tool to expand your pictorial repertoire , inspire new work, or as an end in itself…The hope is that the results will be a fresh take on your own artistic style and interests, and a way of discovering… Read More →
Proyecto’Ace – Together Apart residency (ART Bootcamp) Reflections
Alive Light and shadow Sweep notes across the skin Alive With the invisibility Of things (Kenneth Sullivan) This is the poem I found to use in exercise three and in many ways it also seems to capture much of the essence of my experience of being involved with Together Apart. I am really pleased I… Read More →
Proyecto’Ace – Together Apart residency (ART Bootcamp)
I feel very privileged to have taken part in Proyecto’ Ace’s first online residency – Together Apart. Proyecto’Ace is an Artist-in-Residence International Program founded by Alicia Candiani in 2005, located in the Barrio de Colegiales in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The program acts as both, a platform for production and reflection on contemporary artistic practices… Read More →
Lewis Bush: Photobooks workshop August 2020
You can make a book well, cheaply, or quickly, but you can never do all three. Tom Mrazuauskas/Brave Books I had heard great things about Lewis’ workshops and while I had no particular outcome in mind my ever present interest in artists books and the summer break made this a great time to give one… Read More →
Inspiration in a period of uncertainty: Shanghai & Berlin
In the old normal, as part of our course, we would be going on regular field trips. These visits are an important part of the process because they provide inspiration, ideas and give a sense of the wider context of curation, sector debates and so on. For obvious reasons we haven’t been able to do… Read More →
‘Field Work’ expanded
In March we were set a project prompt that encouraged us to interact with a public site in nature as far as was safe to do at the time given the lockdown restrictions. Select a public site in nature you can record using photography, print, drawing, film or create site-specific works by walking, using found… Read More →
Thinking through painting: Reflexivity and agency beyond the canvas
Although this is a diminutive volume it is densely packed. While I have been thinking a lot about post-digital art lately, I haven’t looked very much at painting. This new-found interest has in part been inspired by my turn to painting during lock down and the sometimes physical need to apply paint to paper as… Read More →
Digital Remains: PechaKucha
The above presentation shows the evolution of my work in relation to the notion of digital afterlife. It shows my influences, and hopefully illustrates my developing practice. Please note there are some moderately flashing images at the end. This was the third time I had presented my PechaKucha (a presentation format using 20 slides shown… Read More →