I observe in my work several inter-related lines of enquiry. These broadly concern an exploration of body and ground. In particular:
Continue reading “Observations on my own work, 2026”Delayed Art Commentary: Off Season 2026, Margate
‘Give and thou shalt receive’… I’m not a biblical person, but I truly felt the generosity of the artists of Margate hovering in the cold January air. The spirit, the soul, dancing and flitting along the streets, into studios, shop windows and car-parks. Bringing the town to life, such energy as over 150 artist events popped up, across a 3-day festival.
Continue reading “Delayed Art Commentary: Off Season 2026, Margate”Reading Notes: ‘The Moving Body’ by Jacques Lecoq
I was lent this book by a good friend, Kristin Fredricksson, who trained at the Lecoq International School of Theatre in France. It’s fascinating on body, performance and gesture. As ever my reading notes are the bits that really jumped out …
Continue reading “Reading Notes: ‘The Moving Body’ by Jacques Lecoq”Artists and their work, artists at work 2025
It is Black Friday and I like this moment to reflect and pause. The opposite of consuming, to breathe deeply and take a moment to think about the things I care deeply about. And actually it’s not things. It’s the values I hold dear, the principles I cherish.
I’ve always liked the quote attributed to Marcel Duchamp ‘I don’t believe in art, I believe in artists’. For me this holds true, it’s the people who make, the act of making, these are the things which matter.
Continue reading “Artists and their work, artists at work 2025”Tip Top Art in Kent in 2024
A quick whirl through my top 14 all killer, no filler art shows in Kent in 2024. In chronological order … enjoy!
Continue reading “Tip Top Art in Kent in 2024”Reading Notes: Art Monsters – unruly bodies in feminist art, by Lauren Elkin
Very excited to have finally got my hands on a copy of this book . The perfect reading in the run-up to the new edition of The Body Room happening in partnership with Goldsmiths University in May 2024
As ever these reading notes are the bits I heavily underlined and noted for future reference.
Continue reading “Reading Notes: Art Monsters – unruly bodies in feminist art, by Lauren Elkin”An unexpected Sunday in Canterbury!
All along the coastline of East Kent, towns are alive with artists and new creative enterprises popping up – new things being tried, original thought and quite frankly life! From Whitstable, along the North Kent coast, around the headland of Thanet, with Margate harbouring the Turner Contemporary, and back along The Channel, to Folkestone, this is the story. But strangely Canterbury, in the centre of East Kent, seems largely devoid of this energy, yet today on a grey Sunday afternoon, without planning it, I managed, unprompted, to happen upon three creative, original goings-on! .. And yes, this feels so heartening and a sign of cultural green-shoots that I decided to document it with this blog post.
Continue reading “An unexpected Sunday in Canterbury!”Reading Notes: “Art & Instinct: Selected Writings of Roy Oxlade”
Roy Oxlade (1929-2014), was a British artist and writer, who studied under David Bomberg and alongside contemporaries such as Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. He was married to artist Rose Wylie with whom he lived for much of the later years of his life in Kent.
His views on drawing and what it means to make art, or to try do so are forthright and refreshing. As ever my Reading Notes are the snippets of text I heavily underlined while reading, occasionally with my own reaction included to. Enjoy, particularly as I think this book is now out of print and hard to find! Added emphasis my own.
Continue reading “Reading Notes: “Art & Instinct: Selected Writings of Roy Oxlade””Delayed Art Commentary: Lizzy Rose – Things I have learned the hard way.
Back in April of 2023 I visited a heart-wrenching show ‘Things I have learned the hard way‘ celebrating the work and life of artist Lizzy Rose (1988-2022). In the spirit of all my ‘Delayed Art Commentary’, this is a show that lodged somewhere deep within me, that I’ve carried around & digested slowly over the last few months. Here is a delayed and meandering recollection of a beautiful and important show, scattered across 4 locations in Margate, Kent.
Continue reading “Delayed Art Commentary: Lizzy Rose – Things I have learned the hard way.”Yung Hyon-Keun at Hastings Contemporary
A beautiful show of this Korean artist’s work. Yung Hyon-Keun (1928 – 2007) was one of the leading artists in the Dansaekhwa movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s which explored the idea of monochrome painting.
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