July 1st 2015
Madrid Sculpture Commission, Sara
Over the last few weeks I have been working on a life size wire sculpture, I have named her Sara, she is currently on her way to Madrid.
Sara
Sara, preparations for the journey
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12 June 2015
Richard Alston Dance Company. The Place
20th Anniversary Season
Opening Gambit, choreographed by Richard Alston Dance Company associate choreographer, Martin Lawrence, opened the evening. Ten dancers almost fly, they move with such speed, clarity and energy with rapid direction changes.
Five dances follow, a highlight for me was watching brilliant Jonathan Goddard with Liam Riddick, dancing a duet choreographed by Richard Alston, Mazur, set to Chopin. “A dance for two friends sharing what they love and what they feel they have lost”.
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6 June 2105
Royal Academy. Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2015
Last night at the Private View of the Summer Exhibition, my daughter picked out works that if she had the money she would buy for herself and a few she would buy for me, as we left I suggested an affordable option, a look in the shop to see if there were cards of her favourites, I flicked through the ‘Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2015‘, “First published in the 1870’s the Summer Exhibition Illustrated presents the highlights of each year’s selection and is a fascinating barometer of changing tastes” ‘I’ll buy this for you if they’re in here’, to my delight I saw my etching Rapidly Scrawled Life is in the book above Cornelia Parker’s Stolen Thunder III.
5 June 2015
Where to See My Work in 2015
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2015
8 June – 16 August
Number 677 in Room V, Rapidly Scrawled Life made it through to the final hang
Rapidly Scrawled Life. Two plate etching with sugar lift
1a Greenwich Market, London SE10 9HZ
I am one of 32 artist-printmakers running a printmakers gallery to display and sell our work in Greenwich. I show 1 – 3 framed prints each month as well as unframed work in the browsers. In September I will be the Featured Artist and given a wall to myself
Ordinary Courage. Two plate sugar lift etching and aquatint with chine colle
Ten of my etchings are soon to be hung in ChandlerWright Hair Salon, Blackheath
Astral Convertible. Etching with cine collé
Jack House Gallery. 121 High Street, Old Portsmouth, PO1 2HW
25th June – 1st August. 10.00am – 6.00pm. Group show
SUB II. Sugar lift etching with chine colle
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
22-25 October 2015
on the Greenwich Printmakers stand
Close Your Eyes and Dream. Two plate etching with sugar lift
Edinburgh Art Fair Edinburgh Corn Exchange, New Market Road, EH14 1RJ
13th – 15th November Open 11am daily
on the Greenwich Printmakers stand
Drawn to You. Etching and Aquatint
Beyond Print. No Format Gallery.
Harrington Way, London, SE18 5NR
July 2016. Dates to follow soon
Between One Breath and the Next. Sugar Lift Etching, 2 plates with chine collé
30 Nov – 18 Dec
Group Show, more information to follow soon.
1 June 2015
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015
I enjoyed Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition today. Rapidly Scrawled Life is number 677 in Room V, top right
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27 May 2015
Greenwich Park, Evening Run
Last night running with my daughter in our local park
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May 25 2015
Sylvie Guillem. Life in Progress
Prima Ballerina Sylvie Guillem at Sadler’s Wells takes her final bow after 39 years dancing
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24 May 2015
Protein Dance. Border Tales
Yesterday’s performance of Protein’s brilliant Border Tales at Greenwich Dance. A powerful performance on identity and multicultural living
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23 May 2015
Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. Boris Charmatz. Amandine Beyer
I first watched and drew Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker’s company, Rosas in 1999 performing in London’s Southbank Centre to the percussion of Steve Reich. From my drawings I made a soft ground etching, still a favourite of mine, looking at it I recall the speed of the dancers, the drumming and the spacious set.
Last night I watched Keersmaeker dance a duet with Boris Charmatz, the dancer/choreographer instrumental in filling Tate Modern with dance last weekend. They were joined by the amazing violist Amandine Beyer, Infact Beyer played alone on a dark stage for the first 30 minutes, she left as the dancers arrived to dance in silence, except not silence our heads were still filled with the earlier music, then the three performed together. Here are some of my quick pencil sketches drawn in the dark which I hope to take through to etchings.
A beautiful enigmatic evening.
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23rd May 2015
Aircraft Circus Student Showcase
Sketches of the dress rehearsal of the Aircraft Circus Student Showcase at Hangar Arts, Woolwich, on the same site as Second Floor Studios & Arts where I have my studio. I hope to post more drawings made at Aircraft Circus soon
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