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:
November 18, 2018
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An interview just published in Arts Illustrated. Quite interesting, in the sense that I was sent a list of questions and wrote the replies, and so had the opportunity to give the answers some thought and to edit and tweak the … Continue reading
August 29, 2018
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So we’re still on Thursday 23 August. Hot and humid with heavy showers. We meet Matthew Fasone at Kawaramachi Hankyu subway station and, after a short wander, head over to Art Spot Korin and a meeting with artist and very, … Continue reading