Sometimes pieces are a long time in the making. This being one of them. I started working on it in the summer and somehow only finished it last month. It's called Before We Were Lost and is cut from a vintage Polish atlas. I was thinking...
I'm always on the look out for new maps. You can never have enough maps as far as I'm concerned. When I got the chance to rifle through the maps at Argosy map gallery in New York (read more about it here) I jumped at...
Is it possible that Frieze happened almost a month ago and I'm only getting round to posting about it now. I always enjoy my trip to Frieze. It's great to see so much art from around the world in one place. Though I always need lay...
Happy Halloween! A bunch of skull for your pleasure. ...
A Conference of Birds ends on 31 October. It's always bitter sweet. There's part of me that never wants exhibitions to end, but also I know it's time to move on. New works are to be made and sold works need to head off to their new...
This is my final post about New York (for now!). And I'm finishing off with a highlight. The Whitney Museum of American Art. After walking (and sweating on) the High Line we headed into the museum. Luckily it's at one of the The High Line...
I was very keen to visit the Met, as I hadn't been there before and also wanted to see the Cornelia Parker Installation, Transitional Object (Psycho Barn) that was on the roof, more info here I've always loved Cornelia Parker's work and I saw a wonderful...
One of my must do's when I was in New York was to visit the New Museum, on the Bowery. I'd been reading about an exhibition that they had on called The Keeper and was very keen to see it. The exhibition is over now,...
I had a few days in New York on my own and had some plans but mostly I wandered. I loved my wanderings. Walking the streets and observing and absorbing the sites and sounds. I would head out with a vague direction in mind and see...
A while ago I was lucky enough to be introduced by a friend to Laura, who runs the map gallery at Argosy Books in New York. Laura was over in London for a week or so and came to visit me in my studio. It was...