Painting selected for Distanced Domestic show

Dec 6, 2020 | exhibitiion, painting

Not enough hours in the day (watercolour and ink, 15x18cm) is one of many small watercolours selected as part of Distanced Domestic. An exhibition by Co. Curation that re-evaluates our relationships with domestic space and unpaid labour. The realities of home life...

Writing for publication: Theatre of the Self

Nov 9, 2020 | publication, writing

Work continues on writing the Theatre of the Self for publication. Thanks to the patient help of Davina Kirkpatrick (editor and designer) I hope to be able to fit project documentation into a 30 page A6 book. This is quite a challenge and involves a great deal of...

Paintings on show at Tremenheere Gallery

Oct 12, 2020 | exhibitiion

‘ Encased in a new silence’ on show at Tremenheere Gallery 10 October to 1 November 2020. Tues-Sat 10-4pm (check times) The Edge of Dark show at Tremenheere Gallery is a fantastic installation of work by Curator Jesse Leroy Smith of work by Newlyn Society...

Martin Holman writes about my art

Oct 1, 2020 | writing

Martin Holman is an extraordinary arts writer and writes for many arts magazine and publications. He came along to my installation Small Promethean Acts last year and we have had many conversations in-between and he has very generously written about my work and you...

New dark paintings

Sep 19, 2020 | painting

I am currently focussing on new work in my studio that has dark and ironic themes about women, selfhood and Subjectivity. Women’s lives are split between so many things that make representing their lived everyday reality impossible. We are bombarded by images of...

Read, (keep) and burn for mental health

Sep 14, 2020 | art project book

One last read, keep and burn. Or is it? I realise how psychologically edifying it is to use this process to revisit the past, learn from it, deal with it, integrate it. The Theatre of the Self project is about writing the self, editing and coming to terms with our...