I’ve been doing a spot of recording with my friend Stuart Moir. He’s a pretty talented chap and is a dab hand at violin, bass, and guitar. The track we’ve been working on is another new song called Hey, Hey, Hey which is a more mellow number that’s predominantly acoustic. Rick Danko came up a […]
Read more "New acoustic track demo"Really pleased to be featured in Blues Matters! magazine this month. It’s one of my favourite publications, in no small part due to their contributors including Sarah Reeve and Clive Rawlings. Hoping I can wrangle a bigger feature and review once the album is finished. In other news we’ve been working on a new track […]
Read more "Spot in Blues Matters! Magazine"This week saw the first recording sessions for my new album. My band are recording initially at Universal Studios in Fulham, with the plan to use a mobile recording rig to add some other elements further down the line. The first day went really well and we managed to get the bare bones of four […]
Read more "Start of recording sessions for new album"I am pleased to announce my drawings have been selected for the Bow Arts Open Show 2012. The exhibition is curated by Bob and Roberta Smith (Artist), Skye Sherwin (Arts writer, Guardian), Emilie Faure (White Cube) and Rosamond Murdoch (The Nunnery). Speaking about the selection, Bob & Roberta Smith said, “This is a celebration of […]
Read more "Bow Arts Open Show 2012"Ok, I have bitten the bullet. After four years of stubbornness I have finally paid for my own website. My logic was that, with all these free services like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest allowing me to connect with new and interesting audiences, what was the point in shelling out my hard earned cash for my […]
Read more "New website"My latest series of drawings are now available for purchase. Gallery and price list here » P&P will be additional and invoiced separately. Framing is included in the purchase cost. My drawings address notions of time, space and human existence. Constructed from thousands of tiny marks, references are made to micro and macro exploration. From […]
Read more "Latest drawings for sale"My article ‘Artists are their own agents of change’ has been published on Guardian Culture Professionals. In it I address the themes of two of the key events on the visual arts calendar – Arts Council England’s State of the Arts at the Lowry, Salford, aimed at senior arts professionals, and OpenAIR at Firstsite, Colchester, […]
Read more "Article featured on Guardian Culture Professionals"“You could argue that artists are almost in a constant state of ‘redundancy’, repetitiously moving from one project to the next in search of new income strands…” Today I was on the panel for the Guardian Culture Professional’s live chat on redundancy in the arts. We examined both sides: those made redundant (how to take the […]
Read more "Guardian Live Chat: redundancy in the arts"Today I officially became a member of Bow Arts Trust! So excited to move into my new studio with Elizabeth Murton and Lizzie Cannon. One of the key things I learnt after finishing art school in 2007 was my need for 1) a space separate to my living accommodation in which to create artwork and […]
Read more "Bow contract signed!"I will be exhibiting new drawings in the ZAP launch exhibition Collectible in April. The show features “both established and emerging artists who are some of the Zeitgeist artists of our time”. The list includes: Rachel Wilberforce, Rich White, Elizabeth Murton, Michaela Nettell, Charlotte Norwood, Alex Pearl, Rosalind Davis, Annabel Tilley and Virginia Verran. It will […]
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