My exit from this studio is imminent and I am not planning to rent another place. Concentrating on video work for the foreseeable future this last couple of months will see me making a conceited effort to run down my stock of materials, complete all the unfinished sculptures and prepare them for safe storage and […]… Read more »

It's the 3rd week of the 5 week exhibition and that means we are half way through.  It's rather overwhelming trying to make sense of all the various feedbacks I am getting.  From such a wide cross section of the community various different aspects of the project either directly or indirectly related are being discussed […]… Read more »

I've landed myself an emerging artist position on the Triparks project. I did not know anything about the project until an email came through today inviting artists to apply.  With the prospect of spending 2 days working alongside exhibiting artists and getting funded for it I filled out the short application form and emailed it […]… Read more »

Here are a few photos from the first night of my exhibition entitled People Watching the People Watchers.  The project is drawing a lot of attention and in the few hours that it's been on display I have received more reactions than any exhibition before.  I concluded about a year ago that by simply including the […]… Read more »

Today I collected the keys to No. 5 East Reach in preparation for this Fridays exhibition launch.  My video installation will be viewable from the street at times of darkness on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.  This is my first exhibition in my home town, so lets see what response I get.  I am […]… Read more »

Huge thanks to Jamie Gordon of Gordon Valiant Photography for sending me a link to this video after he read my previous post. I think I am going to draw up a letter addressed to "The Police Officer Who Has Just Stopped Me" and always carry a copy with me when photographing.  It will explain […]… Read more »

I had just finished taking the portrait of 2 gentlemen on a bench in Vivary Park yesterday.  As I packed away my camera I was approached by a policeman and a community support officer.  They were primarily interested in talking to the two people I was photographing.  So right in front of me they had […]… Read more »

Regardless of all the bureaucracy of the exhibition, the actual art project itself is trooping on well.  I was in town from midday until 5pm on Wednesday and Thursday looking for People Watchers and got some really good results.  On Thursday (yesterday) I actually ran out of model release forms because I hadn't counted on finding 4 […]… Read more »

The full version of The Darlingtons - Glitch (music video by Martin Joiner) is now available online! Note the high quality video, YouTube has really improved over the last year or so!… Read more »