Following on from previous work in the print window – MEASURING STATES #1–#2, I had the pleasure of presenting new sculptural drawing work in the main window space ahead of POROSITY, my upcoming residency at AirSpace in April/May this year. FOLDED FORCE consists of new experimental paper works, where large paper panels containing part hidden and disrupted … Read more
I have spent a large amount of time working with paper and drawn line over the last few months. Working on and across paper, on films and transparencies, drawings and thinking about sections of drawings where the lines draw me to connect with them. Amy Sillman describes drawing as an action verb. Here drawing is … Read more
“Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming something else, or someone else.” ― Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination With tests completed and many zoom meetings since the beginning of the year, today was the first time Deb, Ros and Phil all met … Read more
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning.” Hermann Hesse, Wandering, 1920 On the 16th June I was joined for an evening walk by Professor Penny Florence. I am … Read more
When we seek to enter into a relationship with materials and movement we allow ourselves to question what we think we already know about material properties/techniques and their behaviour. Through the making of these artworks the conditions for a new knowledge is also created and allowed to emerge. Artworks within this project experiment with ways … Read more
Bergson proposes a perceptual framework that connects us to a vibrant material world – extending ‘subjects’ and ‘objects’ along a spectrum of temporal movement. Bergson proposes exceeding what he describes as our ‘human’ habits of perception and intellection. He suggests we are not restricted to a linear reading of the world, instead a more-than-human sensitivity … Read more
A Conversation with the Landscape of Tatton Park Tatton Park is just down the road from my home and a delight to visit for its wide open flattish, hedge free landscape. A feeling of openness, freedom, giving long wide views to the faulted margin of Pennine Hills, way to the east towering above the Cheshire … Read more
‘There are many great contentions between miners concerning the forked twig, for some say that it is of the greatest use in discovering veins, and others deny it. Some of those who manipulate and use the twig, first cut a fork from a hazel bush with a knife, for this bush they consider more efficacious … Read more
Due to continued lock down restrictions I began online conversations with Deborah Bell and Ros Todhunter. Letters to the void is a way to begin to understand what connects us to landscapes when walking. For me to understand why I am connected to certain landscapes and not others. Can we learn to read the unseen? … Read more
‘Sometimes in the darkness you can see more clearly’ Robert MacFarlane – Underworld. Over the coming year new artworks will examine the dual relationship between ‘humans and Place’. Humans inevitably change the place they are in, each receives an impression of the other. Porosity, takes it name from a scientific term of measurement. Building on … Read more