Follow the materials

The more time I spend here, it is the materials of this Priory that impress themselves upon me, through touch, texture and through the act of recycling. Let me explain: Continue reading →

Frog does the crawl

It is a delight to come across a museum that is a simple collection of objects related by their proximity and little else. Free from being told what to think, Continue reading →

Burning books

You can see the pointed imprint of the cloister roof on the side of the house, and from its height it is possible to say that the cloisters would have Continue reading →

Observing time

Part of my work at Woodspring is to research into the place for artwork ideas. There are many different ways of observing, and I am particularly interested in the different Continue reading →

Impromptu studio

Home from home for the weekend! This is my impromptu studio at Woodspring, away from the main rooms so as not to clutter them with all my kit. Here I Continue reading →

Stalker

In the film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (do search it out if you haven’t yet seen it) the stalker of the title takes clients into the Zone, an area that Continue reading →

The Cube Calculator

Yesterday morning I took a look inside another library, that of the Forestry Commission in Coleford, and came across this tome, The Cube Calculator by John Whiting. Rows upon rows Continue reading →

Into the nano-sublime

Up in the Lakes the other week, and I was stopped in my tracks by this little whirlpool. I could have sat there for hours. Surrounded by stunning landscape on Continue reading →

Light bridge

My first day working in the Forest of Dean today, with two workshops one in each of the libraries involved in the project. Coming back at the end of the Continue reading →

Connected by trow

Woodspring Priory is often described as ‘isolated’, partly because it is right at the edge of the land on the coast of the Severn Estuary. But that hasn’t always been Continue reading →

Magnetic shadows

Searching for traces of disturbance in the soil, that is what the gradiometer is used for (apart from looking like you are carrying a Star Wars Tie Fighter in your Continue reading →

Nano-residency at Woodspring Priory

It is all about time at the moment! My residency on Portland last year lasted some ten months, time to really develop a new body of work. Then recently the Continue reading →

Into the Forest

Starting on Monday, I have a micro-residency in the Forest of Dean: ‘micro’ in that it runs for just six weeks, through May and June. Wedged between the Wye and Continue reading →

Remembering a mackerel

Here is a first for me: first time that I have been interviewed about my work, in this case for the online Canadian magazine Figure/Ground. Interesting to be asked to Continue reading →

Something to hold on to

We were doing so well, working in 3D, shaping the birdsong in the virtual space of the computer, doing things impossible in the ‘real’ world. Then a glitch, a crack Continue reading →

Fumigating bronze

Visited Pangolin today, the massive bronze foundry just up the valley from my studio in Stroud. I am looking into how the (printed) bronze spore cases might be treated through Continue reading →

Sonic scroll

When you see the skylark’s song like this, you can’t but help to read it as a sonic sentence, complete with grammer, phrasing and meaning. But what to make of Continue reading →

In the blender

We seem to have cracked it! Transforming bird calls into 3D landscapes. I know, I was working on this a few years back making 2D images of 3D landscapes for Continue reading →

From Mezz to Heart of Wonder

Mezz, which I co-curated with Louisa Fairclough, was an inspirational (to me, and hopefully to all those who came to our events!) critically-engaged programme of talks and performances, which ran from Continue reading →

Alluvium

Looking back over the past few posts, I realise that I have been referring to Alluvium, but haven’t introduced it yet. Well, this is now the working title for the Continue reading →