Song Dong at the Barbican

The curve gallery at the Barbican was choc full of stuff. The piles of stuff, stuff laid out and stuff in piled boxes all looked rather grubby set against the white space. 30… Read More →

Call out for your old Multimedia cables

I am collecting those old multimedia cables you have nesting in the dark corners of your world, just waiting to be transformed into some art. No need to untangle. Can collect from you… Read More →

Mark Fisher and Jeremy Deller

The Battle of Orgreave and Mark Fishers presentation about Capitalist Realism. Not sure that it matters what order I saw them in, but I saw them both within 24 hrs of each other… Read More →

Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher was in conversation with the ever engaging David Cross. They share passion in the state of the world, and I loosely categorise them as Cross working to address some of the… Read More →

Extract of talk by Mark Fisher

Being stressed at work results from no longer having union stewards to go to or anyone to ask for support. We are now soley responsible for it ourselves, and therapy or medication takes… Read More →

Surface Water development

After an astoundingly immersive week at Cortijada Los Gazquez I have been thinking about the project I began there- where it sits, how it’s installed, the scale, are things to play with. Work in… Read More →

Graham Hudson

Graham Hudson started off by showing us work from 2006, and pointed out that this was 4 years after he left college. This cheered me up no end- sometimes when you are floundering… Read More →

(o)ccupy Grey Area Gallery day 5

  Finally the pipes are behaving, but not without some brute force courtesy of the (broken/missing vital part) pipe bender. Clearing up the space, placing the pipes where I want them, I couldn’t… Read More →

(o)occupy Grey Area Gallery Day 3

The bait ball of wires survives another day, it seems to be quite at home. The pipes are not. Yet. So I will continue to coerce them, appealing to their empty insides with… Read More →

(0)ccupy Grey Area Gallery Day 2

Sweep steps. Take out bin. Map the space in more detail. Pipes and wires. 8 pipes, 26.1 metres, 8.2 litres or water (20.5% of average water volume of one human) . 25 wires,… Read More →