February 1, 2020
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This is my most recent film, shot at various locations in and around Osaka in August 2019. For those non-Japanese readers, the trumpet player is Steve Waterman. The film formed part of my submission to 1SSUE 43. A version is … Continue reading
September 10, 2019
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Here are the two films I produced for the Mirror exhibition at Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, 30 July – 11 August 2019. 白紙 [Blank Paper] is a Japanese language film that toys with narrative convention. It is sampled, intertextual, and semiotically … Continue reading
August 18, 2019
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Tragically, I can now report that we’ve arrived back in the UK. We’ve had a few hours sleep since the long trek half-way around the world, but obviously body clocks are hopelessly out-of-sync. Fortunately we’ve allowed a day to decompress, … Continue reading
August 10, 2019
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What I’ve been up to recently, part two: Thursday 1 August On our train rides into town I’d seen a group of traditional-looking roofs amongst the contemporary sprawl. Again with the aid of Google Maps I identified where it is: … Continue reading
August 9, 2019
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We’ve been here now for about two and a half weeks. We leave a week tomorrow. Heather has been blogging furiously so I guess we all know what she’s been up to, right? Printmaking at Atelier Outotsu mostly: even though … Continue reading
August 1, 2019
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On Monday at 1pm local time we gathered at Art Spot Korin in Kyoto to put our Mirror show up. “We” being myself and Heather (obviously), Masahiro Kawanaka (the curator), and fellow artist Matthew Fasone (who we met on our trip … Continue reading
July 24, 2019
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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Heather Parnell we have been generously funded by the Arts Council of Wales (under the Wales Art International programme) to visit Japan once again. Last year we moved around a fair bit: roughly two … Continue reading
March 17, 2019
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This video is part of the submission to 1SSUE 41 by Carl “CJ” Boland and myself. Last year when Heather Parnell and I spent a month in Japan this is what I was doing. The majority of the footage was … Continue reading
March 1, 2019
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After the funding-inspired blogging frenzy of last summer we may note that I haven’t posted here for more than three months. Clearly many of you will be overjoyed at this respite. Tragically, your joy is short-lived, for you will be … Continue reading
November 25, 2018
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This video was part of my submission to 1SSUE 40. Having a bit of fun with this one. Try and listen through a decent sound system or headphones ‘cos you need to hear the bass: