A couple of weeks ago I lost my Depeche Mode tickets – these were part of a Christmas weekend surprise I’d organized for my friend Jill and without them it was just a couple of days in Glasgow!
With all the building work currently going on I had to search the entire house, drawers and cupboards, [...]
Did an intensive course of Bronze Casting with the Sculpture Workshop. Initially I planned to cast a piece of my dads old steam train but that would involve taking it to pieces so I decided to cast what I had kicking about the house – my elephant dung. Hey, its a sure way of drying [...]
I am having the best time ever – I am 100% into the theme of circus circa 1870 – Barnum and Bailey etc.
The concrete floor has been laid and the windows are being painted.
I asked some scaffolders for a piece of their rope – I think they were so surprised they gave me 3 metres!!! [...]
New found freedom and the truth about that Michael Smiley Comment.
I catch up with Edinburgh based artist Sarah Wilson at her studio in Leith, she is cursing the Scottish weather as she cannot finish her outdoor sculpture due to impromptu rain and apologising for her taste in music (The Selector blares in the background).
Sarah has [...]
Flew over to Berlin on Friday morning to check out the Celeste prize – and to have a lusting look at the Hamburger Bahnhof for my fix of Bruce Nauman and Matthew Barney.
Been playing about with photos – taking shots through different things – check this oot
and from Die Kunst ist Super! a week bit [...]
Finally I have pulled all my ideas and peoples advice together and the blokes arrived this morning to start making small changes to my gallery space.
The best advice I got was from Ben Fallon who said “just do it!” – so I am.
I read an article in the Sunday Times about military parades held in Pyongyang, North Korea. These propaganda events become a beauty pageant – the best looking young women are pushed to the forefront to convince westerners that the entire female polulation of North Korea is easy on the eye.
I decided to capture this in [...]
Summer is here and I’m back to my happy place – painting. I have been asked to paint a series for Napiers Gallery to exhibit in the Edinburgh Festival.
They gave me a disgusting picture on canvas from IKEA and I was given free reign to do what I wanted with it. As Napiers is all [...]
I really should start going to gigs to watch the band and not just the pretty lights and shadows!!
Printmakers Workshop phoned me on Friday to say a place had come up at this weekends workshop and would I like to do it now rather than November – I should coco!!
I have been developing some of my photographs in my sketchbook, cutting into them and adding to them etc – I had been playing [...]
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