Drawing your way forward

Some days, the only thing that makes sense is to draw. The rest of the world is too complicated. I am getting into this series of drawings now: working on No.3 […]

Open Studio…ish

It is the Stroud Open Studios this and next weekend – do come! Eighty two artists will be showing their work, and in the case of Stroud a studio can be anything […]

Back to art school

All the life drawing classes I have attended in the past (models of various sizes in various poses, the odd mix of people behind the easels), making a painting of a mackerel for […]

Parabolic incision

Today, in the studio, working on ideas for three chalk boulders, each incised with a golden parabola.

First outing for the Library Digester

The Library Digester (seen here in its travelling case) is a structure designed to disrupt library shelves, the clear acrylic ‘books’ (with the imprint of a tree branch within) slotting […]

It has arrived!

So, the maquette for ‘Passager’ has arrived. This small 3D-printed model will give me a better sense of how the final sculpture might look. As always, it is both exciting […]

Maquette is on the way

The maquette for ‘Passager’ has been printed by Shapeways and is on its way to the studio. I’m really looking forward to seeing it finally, after all the scanning (by […]

Warmth and Herschel

How William Herschel (it is his hand in the picture) and his discovery of infrared radiation became central to the work I made for the Verne Prison last year, called […]

Clean Unclean

I am really pleased to announce ‘Forgetful Worlds’ has been selected by Tom Jeffreys for the Clean Unclean season on the online art-thinking-nature-writing magazine The Learned Pig. It is a fascinating […]

“Between the comet and the chalk”

This short film has just been released about my time in the Observatory. It was an interesting challenge to try and condense all that has gone on there into just […]

Ricochet at Site ’15

The brochure for this years Site Festival in Stroud is now out. I will be doing a performance-talk as part of the festival in Week Three, on Wed 15th April […]

My harmonograph wall

My time in the actual Observatory is now over, so the work continues back in the studio, where I have put up all the harmonograph drawings that I made at the […]

Out of the box

Today is my last day in the Observatory. It has come to feel a little like home. My time there has initiated masses of ideas for new work, which I […]

Philae talk now online

The research talk I gave recently in the Planetarium at the Winchester Science Centre is now online. It is about 35 minutes long. Thank Phil for filming this.

Kepler Orrery

A recent Horizon programme took a look at our latest understanding of how the planets circle our Sun. Away with the old idea of fixed orbits, and all those mechanical […]

Decommissioned by moths

Time to let something go. This time it is ‘Tonsure’, an artwork I made some years ago from the hair off my head. This piece consisted of my blowing a […]