I’m very happy to have been shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize 2010 along with Gina Czarneck, David Jacques, James Quin and Paul Rooney. The exhibition will be in June/July at Metal at Edge Hill Station in Liverpool.
Liverpool Art Prize 2010
March 8th, 2010Best Practice
February 16th, 2010Cultural Contact Point (CCP) Austria are printing some postcards to illustrate best practice projects from the EU Culture Project 2007 - 2013 (across all art forms). They have chosen the Salzamt as one of their best practice projects and asked to use an image of Inhabitant on it. I’m very flattered and pleased.
A Curriculum
February 5th, 2010
I’m excited to have been chosen to take part in A Curriculum, a new residency programme at A Foundation in Liverpool, during March - May 2010.
The residency is described thus:
“The programme will be scheduled over two months and will include input from visiting artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and commissioners. A Curriculum will give participants the chance to explore a broad range of perspectives which build a picture of the artist within the wider professional context.”
I will be starting a new body of work; working towards my first ever solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park early in 2011. Can’t wait to get stuck in.
Cardboard City
January 13th, 2010I spent last week and today working with school groups up in Blackpool for Collaborate and Make. I was commissioned by the Grundy Art Gallery there to create this exhibition and it will be on show until January 30th.
The children have made some great work, plus some of the buildings are big enough to go inside like dens! Grab a torch and go exploring, but be warned - some of the connecting tunnels are quite small so don’t get stuck. There is more cardboard available in the gallery, so visitors can make their own building to add to the city, or an item for the cardboard museum’s collection (it currently only has one cardboard dinosaur).
Happy Christmas
December 17th, 2009I will mainly be letting my hair down at the studio Christmas party tonight before having a bit of time off (maybe) over the hols.
In January I will be doing a week long project at the Grundy Gallery in Blackpool called ‘Cardboard Cities’. This will involve a lot of school children, cardboard, parcel tape and should end up with some fantastic structures, which will then be exhibited for a week.
Following that it’s straight back to Yorkshire to get back on with the project there…
Lost at Sea second edition available
November 30th, 2009It is finally done - 88 copies of a second edition are available (actually, more like 60 as some have gone already), with an extra screen printed inner to make it a bit more special. £7 from me and at Lancashire Zine, Artists’ Books and Multiples Fair in January, add £2 for post and packing otherwise.
Manchester Artists’ Book Fair
October 26th, 2009On Saturday 7th November I will have a table at Manchester Artists Book Fair so do come and say hello if you can, the fair is open to the public from 12 - 6pm. You can find it here: DIRECTIONS
There will be a second edition of Lost at Sea available (with special screenprinted bits) as well as at least one new bookwork, maybe even two….
May You Live in Interesting Times
October 18th, 2009On Thursday 22nd October I will be speaking at this festival for creative technology in Cardiff; May you Live in Interesting Times. I am talking about artists’ blogs and online networks, both things I probably spend too much time using..
Yorkshire
October 7th, 2009
Working hard in Yorkshire for the next few weeks. I am the Feiweles Trust Bursary Holder at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for 09/10 and so will be spending a lot of time on the M62 between now and next July. Some of the work is in schools so have been having a great time building all sorts of amazing architectural self-portraits with the children. I am also very tired, but preparing stuff to print for the Fourth Manchester Artists’ Book Fair on Saturday 7th November. Come and see me there if you can!
from this filthy sewer pure gold flows
September 23rd, 2009My piece ‘From the Mountain to the Abyss‘ is in this show opening in Blackpool tomorrow night:
from this filthy sewer pure gold flows
supercollider
contemporary art projects
2nd Floor / 32 Clifton Street / Blackpool / Lancashire / FY1 1JP
SAT / SUN 1 PM – 4 PM (or by prior appointment only)
Please see www.supercolliderhq.org.uk for more details
26 SEPT – 18 0CT 2009
PRIVATE VIEW: 24 SEPT 2009 / 6 – 9 PM
‘From this filthy sewer pure gold flows’ is a group exhibition bringing together the work of a group of artists working in the north of England. Whilst working across various disciplines and following different conceptual agendas the works in the exhibition share a common bond through their celebration of the unusual, unpopular, absurd, redundant, discarded and disenfranchised.
Working in various media from photography to low-tech sculpture through to ‘gonzo’ style video and ‘no-tech’ assemblage the work in ‘from this filthy sewer…’ discusses ideas of wealth, status, loss, obsolescence and seeks to explore the relationship we have with the material world around us .
Many featured works seek to find the monument in the unmonumental as the artists search for beauty and potential in the ‘things’ that fill our everyday.
The exhibition features works by Emily Speed, Martin Hamblen, Stephen Forge, Susan Massey, Fiona Shaw, Sophie Lisa Beresford, Tom Ireland, Noel Clueit and Richard Cook.