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Friday, September 11, 2009 - 18:13
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And last week an interview with Lily Feng for the BBC World Service.
It was for a Chinese Radio broadcast and online report about the World Beach Project, going out to Chinese communities around the world. I hope I said the right words to inspire ‐ it would be great to see the idea developing and extending to fill the blanker parts of the map.
Sadly, I’m unable to read what Lily...
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 08:54
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Earlier this month I was interviewed about World Beach by journalist Florence Waters resulting in a fine spread in the Telegraph Review.
Unfortunately the critical point of working with ONLY STONES was slightly lost in translation, so if anyone got the wrong end of the stick (or seaweed), that’s a shame.
The online version has been amended and includes even more of your great images...
Saturday, July 25, 2009 - 08:01
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I have found myself being reeled into the web that is ‘One and Other’.
Antony Gormley’s project for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is certainly one like no other.
Challenging, controversial: much of the surrounding debate is riveting; much is tedious. There is plenty of it about. To me the project speaks of an enormous act of faith - for all parties concerned. And...
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 11:39
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UPDATE: The video is now LIVE on YouTube and Vimeo ! Filming a few weeks ago... against the backdrop of the cross channel ferries... I found myself crunching across the open canvas of St Margaret’s Bay on the Kent coast with an equally empty canvas in my head. The frisson of a new place, the unknown, the expectations, coupled with the knowledge that we had just a few hours between the tides...
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 07:58
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The 500th contribution to the World Beach Project has just been published! Congratulations Everybody!
I wonder… is it pure coincidence that the entries attached to these landmark numbers* seem particularly apposite?
People chose to write many things in the text box alongside their stone drawings. In the 500th, Tim Spain talks of ‘Galaxies like grains of sand’
For me, this...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 16:48
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Australia May 2008….
...and travelling west over the Murrumbidgee River (a break from the intense textile talk in Canberra ), Chrissy (G W Bot) introduced daughter Katie and I to her land.
Katie drawing in Lower Molonglo Valley, West of Canberra.
An expansive land of ochre hills and faded horizons,
of red earth, broken rocks and tracks,
of spikey grasses and rustling gum trees,
of...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 15:51
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The previous works
lead to...
Lead Two Metres Square.
Here are detail images of the 2m sq Lead piece from the four part work 'Call and Response: Linen, Lead, Stone, Shadow' recently exhibited in Cloth & Culture Now at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
These photographs were taken just after the final hammering on the concrete floor...
Friday, February 13, 2009 - 11:28
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Lose the coffin reference… and the above screen-shot from my computer dictionary seems quite an apposite description for the current state of affairs.
Recovering from long hours in the studio and emerging from the white winter onslaughts, I now feel able to catch up a little here with the woven lead images promised quite a while ago.
These were developed after studying Egyptian plain...
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 16:32
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I often wear blacks.
I often weave whites.
I am beginning to wonder if I might not be a little frightened by colour.
I notice that I choose to tiptoe in from the fugitive, almost thereness of the edges, the borders of change, the margins of reason, keeping well away from the central, intense, core heat of vivid colour.
I have spent hundreds and thousands of hours exploring minute, almost...
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 16:05
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I like exhibitions showing a whole body of work from a single artist.
I like being immersed in the unique vision.
I like for that vision not to be interrupted or diluted by that of another.
Occasionally we find ourselves standing in front of work that touches deeply; it is almost a stab, a point of primal knowing. Not appropriate here to reason or rationalise, just to feel.
And I did…...