Searching for that Field

Today I have just been re-reading the essay by John Berger called ‘Field’. It is something I have never forgotten from the time I first read it. What really impressed […]

Merzbarn

Another post from the Lake District, this time from Langdale. I visited the site of Kurt Schwitters’ last Merzbau which is going to be restored through the Merzbarn project. Thinking about […]

Grizedale

Visited Grizedale Arts today, at their Lawson Park HQ, situated in Ruskin’s back garden. They were busy feeding the ‘slug eating’ ducks. What an inspirational place, and they are truly […]

Body stones

For our Mezz event in May we have the artist Ilana Halperin coming to talk. “One evening, someone approached me and said; I came across something I think you might be interested […]

Looking into the future

Working in Derriford hospital today, and I felt really humbled by the patients and what they are having to face. I have checked with others in the hospital, and it […]

UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Now this is going to be interesting! I have just won a commission to create new work for the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve North Devon, which is one of only two […]

Take your breath away

Spending time in the imaging department, in particular looking at how CT scans work. One of the nurses said to me: “there are no secrets in the body any more, […]

Unexpectedly moving

Living next to Gloucester cathedral I came across an exhibition there by Greg Tricker: sculpture, painting, stained glass. Having helped him carry this huge piece of wood into the nave, […]

Distorted Quartz

Clay10, a commission for Newton Abbot Community Hospital, has just been completed. The large disk image high up in the atrium is alligned to a window on the opposite wall […]

In the minds’ eye

Watching as a radiology consultant reports his findings from CT scans of patients’ heads, scrolling through the cross sectional images of the brain at such speed that for me it […]

Out-In

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir. Sometimes I marvel how […]

Clay10

That is meant to be Clay to the power of 10, but I can’t find the superscript key. Anyway, it is the title for the Newton Abbot project. A nod […]

Neuro-Art

Last week I was at the Neuro-Art conference hosted by Plymouth University. A fascinating crossover of science, biology, art and technology: using live brain cells to make music, control a […]

Seeing is believing

This morning I spent observing in the x-ray department, looking at intestines after the patients has swallow barium to highlight the lining of the gut. That barium tastes disgusting, like […]

Warp and weave

Now completing the molecular models for the Clay10 project. What has surprised me working with such a supposedly rigid modelling system is just how flexible it becomes as it grows, […]

More-than-human

A quote from David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and a picture of birdsong from my project Birds of the Antarctic: “Caught in a mass of abstractions, our attention […]