Gute Gründe

The studio clearout continues. I guess I take my englishness with me wherever you go, even into the open-plan studio Gute Gründe that was my base during our Berlin years […]

Swanash

The studio clear out continues and this was in one of the boxes: the cremated remains of a swan that made it all the way from Siberia only to die […]

Mr Samuel Kaliski

A polaroid from our first year at the RCA. Meet Mr Samuel Kaliski, micro-gallery owner and art shark. He cruised the waters of the RCA offering shows in his Demandesque […]

My madeleine

The studio clearout continues, as do the memories. Proust had his madeleine; I’ve got the these work trousers, which take me back to 1998 and my residency at Gloucester cathedral. Working […]

Child’s play

One of the pendulum drawings I made during The Observatory residency. That was in the cold of January 2015. The blue biro faded now to shades of brown.

Gasometer stretch

Ah yes, the first time I used latex as a sculptural material. A maquette for a stretched sculpture to be sited within the ribbed cage of an empty gasometer.

Looking back at me, looking back at you

Self portrait: looking back at myself from 1992. [I am just embarking upon a complete studio clearout, and have already come across this. Well, over the next few weeks this […]

Every breath you take

At school, I was never as keen on chemistry as I was on biology. However these days, the more I read about the ecological damage that we are doing to […]

Tallman Walking

Tallman Walking, what’s that all about? That pivot moment where you start to rotate the telescope and look through it from the other end; the descending whoosh as the Doppler […]

Art in the Field

That’s the title of a recent article in ‘The Field’ magazine about my plans for Surface Tension. I never imagined that I could be described as a ‘sporting artist’! It […]

A hopeful alternative

It was in The White Bird that John Berger wrote “art does not imitate nature, it imitates a creation, sometimes to propose an alternative world, sometimes simply to amplify, to […]

The magic of models

Just spent the day at Arts University Bournemouth in architecture reviewing the concept designs for Surface Tension. Both exciting and challenging to see the different interpretations of the brief I […]

A Space for Sound and Reflection

Next week I am in a workshop with architecture students at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) on the first stage of Surface Tension, a project on the River Test in Hampshire. The […]

Huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’

It was for The Field magazine that F.M. Halford wrote […]

An invitation

If you are in Exeter this Friday, then do come along to the University’s Innovation Centre for the preview of ‘Bedrock & Paradox’. I will be there from 5.30 to […]

Bedrock & Paradox

Taking its title from Edward Abbey’s book ‘Desert Solitaire’, I’ve got an exhibition coming up at the University of Exeter’s Innovation Centre. The show opens on 23rd. More details to […]