After seven weeks of solid work, fuelled by unaccustomed amounts of coffee, cocktails, ready meals and ice cream, the date of my solo show at 44AD rolls around. Although I thought I’d hit the ground…
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61. Art Residency wks 5-8: Those razor blades won’t paint themselves
By week five I am more than halfway through the art residency in Bath, and the clock is starting to tick quite loudly. I know I’m going to be taking a week out for some…
60. Art residency wk 4: No more Nessun Dorma
It is the week when the two Universities of Bath have their graduation ceremonies in the Abbey. This means it’s now possible for me to pop out for a coffee, and return forty-five minutes later…
59. Art Residency wk 3: Out and about
It is already week 3 of my nine-week residency, and you may be wondering how I said yes to such a long project, without sorting out my accommodation first? Well, to be honest, I have…
58. Art Residency wk 2: Sharp stuff
After my excited purchase of a shed-load of sharp knives, I gather all the glues, tapes, base-boards, and other stuff I think I might need, and head back down the M4 to Bath. Once there,…
57. Art Residency wk 1: Back to Bath
It’s only in movies where the grief-stricken get to lie in bed for a year, looking badly made-up yet still delicately beautiful, not even rising to go to the loo apparently, whilst someone else handily encourages them to eat.
56. Shakespeare and The Scrubbers
In Spring, 2020, Covid-19 suddenly leaps onto the world’s stage and everyone’s life just…changes. Whilst still adjusting to the shock, fear and horror of it all, the UK goes into lockdown. None of us knows…
55. Lockdown dating
Lockdown dating: well, that’s a misnomer, for a start. It would be better to call it a series of odd texts and even weirder phone conversations. After I decide to stick my toe in the…
54. What the men on Match need to know
My dad became unbearably lonely a year after my mum passed away, so he put an ad in a retirement magazine (this was the old days, folks) and received over a hundred replies – including…