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Art Junky 15
I’m having a stall at Art Junky 15 on Saturday March 28th 2015, 11am-5pm, with friend and fellow artist Margaret Kemp:Art Junky is back! It’s the indoor market that combines our love for quirky jumble...
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The Bark Mask Revisited
I started making the Bark Mask back in 2012, and used the early version in a series of photographs (Bark Mask 01, Bark Mask 02, Bark Mask 03).It started from a shop-bought papier-mâché mask blank and...
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ArtJunky March 2015 and various related thoughts
So, I did another stall at a local art fair (Art Junky at the Brighton Phoenix, as mentioned in this post earlier this month) displaying and selling my prints.I have mixed feelings about spending a day...
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England’s eerie dreaming
Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes on...
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Myth and constant liminality
I’m typing this in a hotel lobby at the corner of Lexington and East 37th in Manhattan, and I can’t think of anywhere further removed from the subjects on my mind: wilderness, mythic archetypes,...
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Link Dump: May 2015
A collection of interesting links that I saved for later consumption on Feedly whilst on my travels over the past couple of weeks:Guillermo Del Toro on myth & monstersBBC Radio 4: Matthew Sweet...
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A Brightonian Death, and other things
One of my Death Mask photographs is going to be used in the programme for A Brightonian Death on the evening May 28, part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.From the coffin of Lux Interior (the...
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Rook feathers, wool, and flint
I’ve just got back from Wiltshire where we’ve been wandering around the prehistoric ritual landscape that includes Stonehenge.While Stonehenge is by far the most famous part of this landscape, I’m...
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Tales from A Brightonian Death
A very short blog post today just to share a couple of pics from A Brightonian Death, the Brighton Fringe event where one of my Death Mask photographs was used: projected on the screen behind the...
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End-of-May link dump
The Burning Matter of English WitchesThe image of the witch being burnt for her crimes is a familiar one, well established in the popular imagination. It might be surprising to learn therefore, that...
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A Post about Life Models (update)
As I approach my next art project I’ve just reviewed the amounts I pay people who model for my photography or drawing from the rates I discussed in this earlier post.I’ve decided to increase the amount...
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The English Eerie (slight return)
The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world.In Oxford next month there’s Spectral Landscapes: Explorations of the English Eerie which is an...
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Just a card
Whilst browsing around the web over the past couple of weeks I discovered Just a Card, a campaign to encourage people to buy postcards/greetings cards from artists and independent galleries on the...
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The Moss Figure
The “Moss Figure” is an image that’s been haunting my mind since I was a child.The original inspiration was a reproduction of a Cibachrome print by Veruschka Forest-piece at Schnaitsee, Performance I,...
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Women’s voices in Folk Horror and Landscape (Part 1)
I’ve been going through a number of my blog posts on the subject of the Folk-Horror/Landscape thing that often gets shortened to the “English Eerie” and I noticed a distinct lack of women’s voices -...
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Photographs taken from the edge of the wood at midnight
Photographs taken from the edge of the wood at midnight is the title I finally decided on for my set of 4 photographs (taken at various shoots between 2013 and 2015). Like many things, it came to me as...
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Rules of Buying Art
The consensus amongst artists I’ve spoken to is that British people very rarely buy original artwork.It seems to be a particularly British thing: in general people in the US and continental Europe seem...
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Seemingly obligatory post on the Turner Prize 2015
I didn’t watch the Turner Prize announcement last night, but I’m glad that Assemble won - looking at the nominees they seemed by far the best choice.My main reason for preferring Assemble is that their...
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My artwork in 2015
I wanted to do a quick review of the artwork I’ve produced this year, not just to show it all to you, but also for my own benefit: as an artist sometimes you forget how much work you’ve actually done...
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January 2016 art update
January is two-thirds gone, but things are coming together. I just received an email from my printers: the books of my artwork have been printed, and I just have to wait for them to bind them and...
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