The Breathing Room prototype (RnD supported by Unlimited) is showing as part of the Unlimited Festival at Southbank until the end of Sunday 9th September.
It’s v exciting having your work tweeted by The South Bank Centre! Here’s me looking all pleased with myself pointing to my name on the blurb (ok, half of my name – there was a door in the way :/)
My guerilla pop-up installation in a Milton Keynes underpass went spectacularly well! Several hundred people showed up to see ‘Fake Plastic Trees‘, my Memorial to the Midsummer Oak, which died in Central Milton Keynes after a shopping centre was built around it. We had amazing musicians and poets entertaining everybody for the full 2 hour…
I was really lucky to be to combine a Jerwood Makers Award with a Develop Your Creative Practise Award, in order to learn a *lot* of new skills. My brain still hurts, but it was so worth it. Mould Making, Slip Casting, Paper Porcelain, Concrete, Jesmonite, Metalwork – phew! It’s opened so many exciting prospects…
I’m delighted to impart that I’ve been shortlisted for the Jon Schueler Scholarship, which allows an artist to develop a project for three months on Skye, with a sizable stipend. I have an interview at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, so cross your fingers for me! I’m not getting too excited as I’m becoming…
My new piece ‘Atomize‘ is showing as part of MK Calling at Milton Keynes Gallery. You can see it before 27th March. A little birdy tells me somebody wants to buy it!
Just back from the ArtOmi residency programme in upstate New York. It’s a fascinating programme that brings together thirty artists from all over the world to inspire each other and to meet people from the New York art world. I find being around other artists generally really inspiring, but it goes without saying that I…
Not quite as big-shot as I’ve made it sound, but I will have an installation at Tate Modern from 24th-26th February! Watch this space! It’s part of an exhibition about how best to present art so it can be experienced by blind and partially sighted people, and is a collaboration of Shape Arts and Tate…