The value of ‘home work’

The value of ‘home work’

Artcore studio blog no 6 – I couldn’t be in Derby last week as I had to go home to work and earn some money. I also had my ‘Domestic Dystopias’ paintings on show. ‘Domestic Dystopias’ are a colourful series of paintings using bitumen paint that about homes,...
Constellations of Care

Constellations of Care

Artcore residency blog no. 7……..I have been thinking a lot about Walter Benjamin’s notion of ‘constellations’ and its application to art as having multiple points of connection. In the same way that we look at stars and find patterns even when there is...
‘Serving Platter, Charnwood Street’

‘Serving Platter, Charnwood Street’

This blog is also live on the Artcore website: http://artcoregallery.org.uk/category/home-residency/delpha-hudson/ Last week the apparition of the ‘Knife Angel’ next to Derby was an example of the ways in which objects can be used to reflect on social and political...
Objects that light and give comfort to our spaces

Objects that light and give comfort to our spaces

This blog is also live on the Artcore website: http://artcoregallery.org.uk/category/home-residency/delpha-hudson/ We recently moved a small village in Cornwall where news and gossip travels fast. One of our neighbours passes our house regularly, stopping we are sure...
Figuring value

Figuring value

This blog is also live on the Artcore website: http://artcoregallery.org.uk/category/home-residency/delpha-hudson/ I travelled home today. I live in West Cornwall, very near Land’s End. At home I gazed at the garden sculpture we inherited when we moved in – the bits...
Figuring value

The things we do…

Well a lot of driving at the moment! I’m so lucky that my best friend lives in Birmingham so I am commuting to Derby every monday, tuesday and wednesday to be ‘in residence’ at the ARTCORE studio and gallery AND travelling around the country for...