·      Residency at hARTslane gallery, London, inc making work with Lace Archive, meeting with Constance Howard Research Centre and Fiona Curran  and public talk .

·      Summer lodge residency, inc visit to Lace Archive.

·      Teaching MA fine art, University of Lincoln inc visit to Nottingham.

·      Painted some ReconFigure Paintings.

·      Working on funding application writing to AHRC and Leverhulme Trust for Bummock.

·      Collating material for Midpointness 3 on Trans Art Triennale Blog

·      Applied to ACE for Midpointness.
·      Received ACE grant for pilot project and R+D for Bummock

·      Launch of Garageland 20, inc my essay The Re: Are They Always Doing it Again?

·      Visit to Vienna to study Vermeer’s The Art of Painting and Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow.

·      Wrote essays On Being Blinded by The Art of Painting and Encountering Winter in Summer

·      Met Document artists at Leicester Print Workshop

  

 

28th August, Conceptual Art in Britain, 164-1979, Tate Britain, London

28th August, Pablo Bronstein, Tate Britain, London

27th August, Albertina Contemporary, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Aldo Giannotti, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Landscapes and People, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Jim Dine, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, Monet to Picasso, Albertina, Vienna

27th August, From Alexandria to Abu SimbelEgypt in early photographs 1849–1875, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 

26th August, Merchant Favoured by the Emperor, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

26th August Mario Garcia Torres, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

26th August 45 Years, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna

26th August Plamen Dejanoff, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna

26th August Alois Mosbacher, Art Box, Vienna

26th August, RTL LTR, Art Mark Galerie, Vienna

26th August, Joana Vasconselos, MAM, Vienna

26th August, Tony Cragg, MAM, Vienna

26th August, Javier Perez, MAM, Vienna

26th August, Jessica Stockholder, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

26th August, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

26th August, Oswald Oberhuber, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

26th August, Helnwein and Hundertwasser , Baha Fine Art, Vienna

26th August, Gottfried Helnwein, Baha Fine Art, Vienna

26th August, Borjana Ventzislavova, Backer Strasse, Vienna

26th August, Ajnhajtclub, Frei raum Q21, Vienna

26th August, Vienna 1900, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Egon Schiele, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Theodor von Hörmann, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Leopold Museum, Vienna

26th August, Valerio Adami, Secession, Vienna

26th August, Manon de Boer, Secession, Vienna

26th August, Vincent Fecteau, Secession, Vienna

26th August, Gustav Klimt - Beethoven Frieze, Secession, Vienna

25th August, Pakui Hardware, Mumok, Vienna

25th August, We Pioneers:Trailblazers of Postwar ModernismMumok, Vienna

25th August, Malarei 2.0, Mumok, Vienna

25th August, Elizabeth Grubl, Eikon Schaufenster, Vienna

25th August, Ina Loitzl, ASIFA, Vienna

25th August, Roland Maurmair, Schauraum, Vienna

25th August, Wolfgang Homola, Typopassage, Vienna

25th August, Anthony Lister, MQ forecourt, Vienna

25th August, Mariel Rodríguez, Artistic Bokeh, Vienna

25th August, Summer in the City, Station Rose, Vienna

25th August, Urban Memories, Jan Arnold, Vienna

25th August, Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

25th August, Julian Opie, Krobath, Vienna

25th August, Ron Mueck, Theseus Tempel, Vienna

25th August, James Lewis, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna

25th August, I ’air du temps, Kerstin Engholm, Vienna

25th August, Michael Riedel, Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna

25th August, Fabian Seiz, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna

25th August, Tim Plamper, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna

25th August, Summer in the City, Gabriele Fulterer + Christine Scherrer, Vienna

25th August, Peter Baum, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, Retrospect: Kinetika 1967, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, 21 er Pavillion 2016, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, Cornelius Kolig, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, The Language of Things, 21 er Haus, Vienna

25th August, Ai Wei Wei, 21 er Haus, Vienna

24th August, Rachel Whiteread, Judenplatz, Vienna 

24th August, Celebration, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

24th August, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

24th August, Beton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

19th August, Martin Creed, Hauser and Wirth, Bruton

3rd August, Sarking, Project Space Plus Lincoln

1st August, Ragnar Kjartansson Barbican, London

]31st July, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Flat Time House, London

31st July, Bummock: Attention/Detail, hARTslane Gallery, London

30th July Margo Wolowiec, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London 

30th July NIck Relph, Herald St, London

30th July Planned Obsolescencence, The Ryder, London

30th July Wolfgang Tillmans, Maureen Paley, London

30th July Being There, Vilma Gold, London

30th July Brian Griffiths, Vilma Gold, London

30th July, Miami Vice, Transition Gallery, London

30th July, Barjeel Art Foundation Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London

30th July, Edwina Ashton, Whitechapel Gallery, London

30th July, Keith Sonnier, Whitechapel Gallery, London

30th July, Mary Heilmann, Whitechapel gallery, London

29th July, Materials and Objects, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Living Cities, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Performer and Participant, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Between Object adn Architecture, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Wen Ying Tsai, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Start Display, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Active Sculpture, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Artist and Society, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Bhupen Khakhar, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Mona Hatum, Tate Modern, London

29th July, Thierry Madiot plays Tarek Atoui, Tate Modern, London

28th July, Matthew Stone, Somerset House, London

28th July, Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London

27th July, Making and Unmkaing, Camden Arts Centre, London

27th July, Hiraki Sawa, Parafin, London

27th July, Continium, Vigo Gallery, London

27th July, Richard Höglund, Ronchini Gallery, London

27th July, Painting as Neo Avant Garde, Jerome Zodo Gallery, London

27th July, David Hockney, Annely Juda Gallery, London

27th July, Anthony Caro, Annely Juda Gallery, London

27th July, Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

27th July, Carlo Carrà, Blain/Southern, London

27th July, Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven, Pilar Corrias, London

27th July, Parastou Forouhar, Pi Artworks, London

27th July, Joshua Citarella, Carroll/Fletcher, London

27th July, Eva and Franco Mattes, Carroll/Fletcher, London

27th July, Gallery Artists, Art First Projects, London

27th July, Alexandra Haynes, Art First, London

27th July, Lygia Clark, Alison Jacques Gallery, London

27th July, Summer Show, Riflemaker, London

27th July, The World is Yours as Well as Ours, White Cube, Gallery, London

27th July, Group Show, Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London

27th July, The Edge of Printing, Royal Academy, London

27th July, Ron Arad, Royal Academy, London

27th July, Jelena Tomasevic, Handel St Projects, London

22nd July, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 130 Years, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

22nd July, Inspire 16: The Young Creatives of Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

22nd July, Faith in Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

22nd July, Art in Crisis, Bom, Birmingham

22nd July, Laura Oldfield Ford, Grand Union, Birmingham

22nd July, Pamela Scott Wilkie, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

22nd July, Patrick Killoran, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

22nd July, Jesse Bruton, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

22nd July, Kan Xuan, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

21st July, Zheng Haozhong, CFCCA, Manchester 

21st July, Yu Chen-Wang CFCCA, Manchester 

21st July, Stanley Chow, CFCCA, Manchester

21st July, The Gardener Digs in Another Time, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Portraits, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Visions of the Front 1916-18, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Wallpaper, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Tibor Reich, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Nico Vascellari, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Anya Gallaccio, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

21st July, Behind The Sun, HOME, Manchester

21st July, Louise Giovanelli, International3, Manchester

21st July, Capturing Science: Images Past and Present, John Rylands Library, Manchester

21st July, Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World, John Rylands Library, Manchester

20th July, Ruth Levene and Ian Nesbitt, Bloc, Sheffield

20th July, Made in Sheffield, Millnelium Galleries, Sheffield

20th July, Shaped from the Earth – Sheffield Ceramics, Millnelium Galleries, Sheffield

15th July, Michael Buelter, Nottingham Contemporary

15th July, Yelena Popova, Nottingham Contemporary

10th July, Cornelia Parker, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

10th July, Itinerant Mind, The Collection, Lincoln

10th July, A Question of Guilt, The Collection, Lincoln

8th July, The Wild, Summer Lodge, Nottingham

7th July, Raqs Media Collective, Gynamsium Projects, Lincoln

7th July, Dissonance, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

7th July, Hurvin Anderson, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

6th July, Playground, Site Gallery, Sheffield

6th July, Northern Light, SIA Gallery, Sheffield

2nd July, Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2nd July, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2nd July, Welcome: Patforma South East, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2nd July, Sidney Thomas Cooper, The Beaney Canterbury

2nd July, taking The Line For a Walk, The Beaney Canterbury

2nd July, Prescriptions, The Beaney Canterbury

1st July, Angel Harding & Wuon-Gean Ho , Leicester Print Workshop

1st July, Michelle Keegan, Leicester Print Workshop

1st July, Picasso Ceramics, New Walk Museum, Leicester

1st July, German Expressionism, New Walk Museum, Leicester

 

Activities

·      Met Bill Newsinger, the filmmaker for Document

·      Interview for residency at Barber institute

·      Graduation in Lincoln Cathedral for BA Fine Art and MA Curating students

·      Applied for Hayward Touring show with Steve Dutton for Midpointness

·      MA Fine Art final show at University of Lincoln

·      New cohort of students on MA Fine Art started at University of Lincoln

·      Working more on AHRC and Leverhulme Trust with Danica for Bummock

·      Collated material for Midpointness post 4 for Trans Art Triennale

·      Resubmitted ACE grant for Midpointness at Airspace Gallery

·      Written and delivered paper for Dirty Practice conference with artist Elizabeth Wright

·      Tried out new piece of work at Dirty Practices residency as part of conference at University of Wolverhampton 

·      Met with Euripides Altintzoglou and discussed possibility of new two person show

·      First Porridge Club of Academic year

·      Programmed Arts Talks series at The Collection, Lincoln

 

 

Exhibitions visited in September

 

30th September, Here and Now, NCCD, Sleaford

30th September, Class of 2016, NCCD, Sleaford

29th September, BP Portrait Award, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

29th September, Inspired By, The Collection, Lincoln

29th September, Euan Uglow/Sargy Mann, The Collection, Lincoln

27th September, Phil Cosker, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

22nd September, Some People Can Dream Even If They Are Not Sleeping, Wolverhampton Art Gallery 

22nd September, The Art of Drawing, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

22nd September, Craft Open West Midlands, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

22nd September, Dorothy Cross, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

18th September, Phil Cosker, All Saints, Branston and Holy Cross, Scopwick 

17th September, Phil Cosker, X-Church, Gainsborough

16th September, David Batchelor, Handel Street Projects, London

16th September, David Korty, Sadie Coles HQ, London 

16th September, Streams of Warm Impermanence, DRAF, London 

16th September, Richard Serra, Gagosian Gallery, London

16th September, The Infinite Mix, The Store, London

16th September, Giuseppe Penonne, Marian Goodman, London

16th September, Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London

16th September, Uri Aran, Sadie Coles HQ, London

16th September, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carrol/Fletcher, London

16th September, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Carroll/Fletcher, London

16th September, Dorothea Tanning, Alison Jacques, London

16th September, Kes Richardson, Fold Gallery, London

16th September, Concrete Inspirations, Arup Gallery, London

16th September, Ed Herring  and Roger Palmer, Richard Saltoun Gallery London

15th September,  Constellations, Tate Liverpool

15th September,  Ella Kruglyanskaya, Tate Liverpool

15th September,  Francis Bacon, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Maria Lassnig, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, The Oratory, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, ABC Cinema, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Bluecoat, Liverpool

15th September, New Contemporaries, Bluecoat, Liverpool

15th September, Mark Leckey, The Walker,  Liverpool

15th September, John Moores Painting Prize, The Walker, Liverpool

15th September, Associate Artists, India House, Liverpool

15th September, Krzysztof Wodiczko, FACT, Liverpool

15th September, Lucy Beech, FACT, Liverpool

15th September, Mark Leckey, Blade Factory, Liverpool

15th September, Liverpool Biennial, Cains Brewery, Liverpool

10th September, Felicity Shum, The Collection, Lincoln

9th September, &, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

2nd September, Tales of the City,  Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

2nd September, Buried Treasure, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

2nd September, All the World’s Stage, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

2nd September, Curious Beauty, Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham

1st September, Nature’s Ape, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

 

 

·      Study trip in Rome with students form University of Lincoln 31st Oct – 3rd Nov

·      Met with Grace from Tennyson Research Centre on 4th Nov

·      Planning day with Danica Maier fro Bummock on 4th Nov

·      Made a new piece of work in response to seeing Valazquez’s Pope Innocent X

·      Planned and participated in all week making exhibition – PS+NO= for staff and students from MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln 7-14 Nov

·      Planning day with Steve Dutton for Midpointness on 7th Nov – Skype with Anneka French and Rob Flint, studio visit with John Plowman and visit from Kate Buckley

·      Tuesday – Thursday Teaching at University of Lincoln

·      PS+NO= - Exhibition showing the making of art with staff and students form MA fine art at University of Lincoln 7-14th Nov

·      Printed Midpointness T-shirts

·      Made work for Rucksack Gallery

·      Gave lecture on Appropriation to BA University of Lincoln students on 8th Nov

·      Organised and introduced talks by Isabella Streffen, Bruce Asbestos, Michael Pinchbeck & Barrie Tullett

·      Installed Midpointness at Airspace Gallery, Stoke 12-14th Nov

·      Did my back in installing Midpointness at Airspace Gallery, Stoke so missed private view on 18th Nov and curators tour on 19th Nov and a day of gallery hoping in London L

·      Did design for Pope Innocent T-shirt

·      Been asked by Staffordshire University to be external panel member for Fine Art Subject Review

 

30th November, Reflections on the Air War, Projet Space Plus, Lincoln

9th November, Slowly I Found My Way In, The Collection, Lincoln

3rd November, Chiesa di san Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

3rd November, Angelo Marinelli, Quasi Altrove, Rome

3rd November, Sergio Lombardo, 1/9unosunove, Rome

3rd November, P D Athanas, Evasioni Art Studio, Rome

3rd November, Marco Giordano, Frutta, Rome

3rd November, Jannis Kounellis, Gavin Brown Enterprise, Rome

3rd November, Adriana Vanejáro, Gagosian Gallery, Rome

3rd November, Kiki Smith & Betty Woodman, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome

3rd November, Brunos Aller, Honos Gallery, Rome

3rd November, Una Visiona Italiana, Montoro 12 Contemporary Art, Rome

3rd November, Tris Vonna Michell, T293, Rome

3rd November, Giovanni Kronenberg, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome

3rd November, Pernament Collection, Galleria Doria Pamphilij, Rome

3rd November, Chiesa San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome

3rd November, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

2nd November, Quadrennial di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 

2nd November, Camille Henrot, Fondanzione Memmo, Rome

2nd November, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

2nd November, The Independant: Base, MAXXI, Rome

2nd November, Shahzia Sikander, MAXXI, Rome

2nd November, MAXXI Collection, MAXXI, , Rome

2nd November, Premio MAXXI 2016, MAXXI, Rome

2nd November, The Lasting, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome

1st November, Permanent Collection, Gallerie Borghese, Rome

1st November, Roma Anni Trenta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Roma

1st November, Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Roma

31st October, Permanent Collection, Vatican Museum, Rome 

 

 

 

·      Tuesday – Thursday Teaching at University of Lincoln

·      Organised and introduced Art Talks by Cathy Lomax and Tom Martin at The Collection

·      Finalised planning and produced poster for Art Talks for Winter/Spring 2017 

·      Did Teaching and Learning funding bid to do a project with General Practice and MA Fine Art students from University of Lincoln in 2017

·      Was present with Steve Dutton in Midpointness at Airspace Gallery, Stoke 2nd, 3rd and 17th December moving, adding to and altering the exhibition

·      De-installed Midpointness at Airspace Gallery

·      Hosted events by Angela Bartram, Steve Hawley, Hamish MacPherson and Annie Morrad for Midpointness at Airspace Gallery

·      Gave tour of Midpointness and activity introduction to students from University of Sussex on 5th December, via Skype

·      Started writing ‘Parasitical Paintings: The Parasite as a Possible for Painting Practice’ (working title), an article for Journal of Contemporary Painting

·      Working in earnest on PhD application

·      Assessed 3rd year BA Fine Art students at University of Lincoln

·      Did CPD proposal for Document project to go and visit galleries and curators during the next 2 years

·      To Newcastle for Meeting Point 2 introductory talks by Arts & Heritage and 10 different Museums on 13th December

·      Made my top ten exhibitions of 2016 list - http://exhibitionsvisited.tumblr.com/post/155114651044/exhibitions-visited-in-2016-part-2

 

 

28th December, Mirceau Cantor, Brancusi Studio, Paris

28th December, Jean-Luc Moulène, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Polyphonies, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Art and Liberty, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Politiques de l'art, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Cy Twombly, Centre Pompidou, Paris

28th December, Frédéric Bazille, Musee D’Orsay, Paris

28th December, Spectaculaire Second Empire, 1852-1870, Musee D’Orsay, Paris

27th December, Benjamin Katz, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Eva & Adele, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Bernard Buffet, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Carl Andre, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

27th December, Duy Anh Nhan Duc, Bettina Gallery, Paris

27th December, Maurizio Cattelan, Monnaie de Paris, Paris

13th December, Monica Bonvicini, Baltic, Gateshead

13th December, Amanda Beech, Baltic, Gateshead

13th December, Deimantas Narkevičius, Baltic, Gateshead 

13th December, Richard Hobson, Laing Gallery, Newcastle

13th December, Rosie Morris, Laing Gallery, Newcastle

10th December, Otobong Nkanga, Nottingham Contemporary

10th December, Marguerite Humeau, Nottingham Contemporary

10th December, Nottingham Castle Open

10th December, Alice Gale Feeney,  Nottingham Castle

10th December, S Mark Gubb, Syson Gallery, Nottingham 

9th December, Response, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

3rd December, Louisa Chambers, Gallery No 1, Repton 

2nd December, Midpointness, Airspace Gallery, Stoke

 

 

·      Met with Danica Maier to work on and further development of Bummock – 3rd Jan

·      Submitted proposals to Meeting Point 2, Isherwood Gallery, A Small View and Ridges and Furrows opportunities

·      Met with Phil Cosker to talk about and plan our contribution to Analysis of Process, 5th January

·      Went to Airspace Gallery with Kate Buckley to collect work from Midpointness, 9th January

·      Tuesday – Thursday – Teaching and Assessments at University of Lincoln

·      Continuing to write article, Parasitical Paintings: The Parasite as a Possible for Painting Practice, for Journal of Contemporary Painting

·       Co-arranged and spoke at Analysis of Process  symposium at The Collection with Waddington Cultural Collective

·      Did my tax return 20/21st January 

·      External examining for Anglia Ruskin University BA Fine Art  in Cambridge on 23rd January

·      Arranged and introduced talk by Angela Bartram at the Collection on 25th January

·      Met with Elizabeth Wright on 11th January

·      To Arts University Bournemouth for lecture and tutorials for BA Fine Art

·      Planned exhibition with Simón Grannel for staff and students from MA Fine Art courses in Lincoln and Bournemouth for May 2017 at Artsway

·      Made a new piece of work – Judith Beheading Holofernes – as a performative painting with a sonic collaboration with Annie Morrad (on 25th January) for Yellow Belly exhibition at Project Space Plus

·      All day meetings with Danica Maier for Bummock on 27th and 28th January

·      Submitted application to St Hugh’s trust with Danica Maier on 28th January

·      Invited to teach at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts for 2 days in May

·      Phone meeting with Steve Dutton for how to take Midpointness forward -  ideas for moving it into further exhibitions and conferences

·      Shortlisted with Danica Maier for Ridges and Furrows Commission

·      Proposal for 3 person show ‘ There, But Different’ at A Small View Gallery accepted for June 2017

·      Met with WCC for monthly meeting on 29th January

·      30th January – proposal shortlisted for Meeting Point 2 commission at Norton Priory
·      30th January –  Returned work from Midpointnesss to John Plowman
·      30th January –  Met with Danica Maier to finalise presentation for Ridges and Furrows pitch

·      31st January travel to Swansea for External examining training

 

27th January, Opem, The Collection, Lincoln

27th January, Christopher Wiles, The Collection, Lincoln

25th January, Yellow Belly, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

20th January, John Baldessari, Marian Goodman, London

20th January, Condo, Sadie Coles HQ, London

20th January, Room, Sadie Coles HQ, London

20th January, Ken Price, Hauser & Wirth, London

20th January, Jennifer Guidi,Massimo de Carlo, London

20th January, In Pursuit of Caravaggio, Robilant+Voena, London

20th January, Josef Albers, David Zwirner,  London

20th January, Sigmar Polke, Michael Werner Gallery, London

20th January, This Space is Occupied, Unit 1 Gallery, London

20th January, I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Griffin Gallery, London

20th January, Painter’s Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London

13th January, Art is a Lie The Makes Us Realise Truth, Project Space Plus, Lincoln 

6th January, In the Studio, Tate Modern, London

6th January, Wilfredo Lam, Tate Modern, London

6th January, Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Modern, London

6th January, William Kentridge, Whitechapel Gallery, London

6th January, Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern,  London

6th January, Tameka Jenean Norris, Ronchini Gallery, London

6th January, Marcus Harvey, Vigo Gallery, London

6th January, John Currin, Sadie Coles HQ, London

6th January, Hugo Wilson, Parafin, London

6th January, Alan Davie, Gimpel Fils, London

6th January, Mai-Thu Perret, Simon Lee, London

6th January, Pat Steir, Dominique Levy, London

6th January, Thomas Ruff, David Zwirner, London

6th January, Rose Wylie, David Zwirner, London

6th January, Preface #1, Kamel Mennour, London

6th January,  Alighiero Boetti, Tornabuoni Art, London

6th January, James Ensor, Royal Academy, London

6th January, Tom Pope, Grazelli Art House, London

6th January, Francesco Jodice, Gazelli Art House , London

6th January, Charlie Roberts, Malborough Contemporary, London

6th January, Catherine Goodman, Malborough Fine Art, London

6th January, Magnus Plessen, White Cube, London

6th January, Caragh Thuring, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

6th January, David Shrigley Fourth Plinth, London

6th January, Pablo Picasso: Print as an original art form, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

6th January, Vicken Parsons, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

6th January, Maíno’s Adorations: Heaven on Earth, National Gallery, London

6th January, Beyond Caravaggio, National Gallery, London

6th January, AnthonyGormley, National Portrait Gallery, London

6th January, Luc Tuymans, National Portrait Gallery, London

3rd January, Nicola Streeten, The Broadcaster, Waddington

 

Activities

·      Tuesday –Thursdays – Teaching and doing admin work for BA and MA Fine Art at university of Lincoln

·      Wednesdays - Arranged Art Talks at the Collection by Jack Moore, Ellen Brady, Fiona Curran, Anne Morrad and Yu Chen Wang

·      1-15th February – read a lot of information for periodic academic review of BA Fine Art at University of Staffordshire

·      1-7 February – drafted emails to artists for asking if they would donate work for an auction I am organising for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital in memory of my Dad

·      1-21st February – Worked up proposal for Meeting Point 2 commission at Norton Priory

·      1-10th February – revised and submitted my article, Parasitical Painting to Journal of Contemporary Painting for peer review

·      1st February External examining training at University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Swansea

·      1st Febuary – Steve Dutton and I have been selected out of 200 proposals for Society of Artistic Research conference – Please Specify: Sharing Artistic Research Across Disciplines in April 2017

·      2nd February – met with Danica Maier to practice for interview tomorrow

·      3rd February - interview for this Ridges and furrows project with Danica Maier

·      4-12th Feb - Selected and scanned13 Self Portraits for ABBA exhibition

·      5th February – Sunday families lunch at John Plowman and Nicola Streeten’s house with the Williams/Maier brigade – much art talk

·      6th February – Met Claire Broadhurst on site visit to Norton Priory for Meeting Point 2 commission

·      6th February, sent my comments on BA Fine Art academic review to Staffordshire University

·      6th February - Found out did not get the Ridges and Furrows gig 

·      7th February - sent email to artists for asking if they would donate work for an auction I am organising for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital in memory of my Dad on the year’s anniversary of his death

·      7-28th Replied to many artists who have sent me emails relating to the auction

·      10-26^th February – Sorted Midpointness images and made a pdf for promotion purposes

·      13th February – filled in Document Review for CVAN EM

·      15th February - Was external panel member for periodic academic review of BA Fine Art at University of Staffordshire

·      16th February – found out I have a solo show at Isherwood Gallery, Wigan, date tbc

·      20th February- Met with Danica Maier to progress Bummock

·      21-22nd February – External examining at Hereford School of Art for BA Fine Art

·      24-25th February – Start of 3 year residency at Tennyson Research Centre - with artists Danica Maier and Sarah Bennet – meeting with archivist Grace Timmins to begin rummaging the archive!

·      26-27 February – Met with Phil Cosker to arrange ‘Documentary is a Particular Type of Fiction’ screening event for 24^th March, invited filmmakers and made poster 

·      27th February – 9th March – MA Show – Speed Processing Slowly - in Project Space Plus
·      27^th February – Prepared for presentation at Norton Priory on 1^st March

·      27^th February – Sent out email to artists to who contributed to ‘Re Midpointness’ on Trans Art Triennale blog, which finally went live today

 

 

 

Exhibitions visited in February

 

22nd February, New Art West Midlands 2017, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

22nd February, Connected Histories:Muslims in the First World War, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

22nd February, Birmingham Big Art project, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

22nd February, Roger Hiorns, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 

11th February, A Contemporary Collection,  Hepworth, Wakefield

11th February, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, Hepworth, Wakefield

11th February, Anthea Hamilton Reimagines Kettles Yard, Hepworth, Wakefield

3rd February, James E Smith, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

1st February, Migrations, Mission Gallery, Swansea

1st February, Anne Gibbs, Mission Gallery, Swansea

1st February, Kate Haywood, Mission Gallery, Swansea

1st February, Journeys and Visions: Twentieth Century Artist Series, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

1st February, Journeys between Art & Life: Richard Glynn Vivian, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

1st February, Glenys Cour, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

1st February, Lindset Seers, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

 

Activities

·      Tuesday –Thursdays – Teaching and doing admin work for BA and MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln

·      Wednesdays - Arranged Art Talks at the Collection by Joy Sleeman, Euripedes Altinghzou, Neil Maycroft, Anne Chick, Dawn Woolley

·      1-10 March – Wrote piece of writing on Richard Serra’s Fulcrum for Invisible Giants publication

·      1^st March - Presented and was interview at Norton Priory for my proposal for the Meeting Point 2 commission

·      2-5^th March – Visit to Cork with Danica Maier for a research and development trip on Bummock project working with George Boole Archive – meetings with Cronan O Doibhlin at Special Collections at UCC, Trish Brennan at Crawford College of Art, Dawn Williams at Crawford Art Gallery, independent curator Aideen Quirke, Dobz O’Brien at National Sculpture Factory, Chris Clarke of Lewis Glucksmann Gallery and studio visits to artists Angela Fulcher, Fiona Kelly, Padraig Spillane, Aibhe Ni Bhriain and Killian O’Dwyer

·      6^th March – did funding bid to go to Helsinki for SAR conference

·      6^th March – Did posters for ABBA exhibition and Documentary Is A Particular Type Of Fiction

·      6^th March – sent emails to artists confirmed for auction for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital that I am organising

·      8^th -31 March – received work from artists for auction

·      10^th March – took students around London galleries

·      12^th March – Prepared for ABBA tomorrow in Project Space Plus, Lincoln while my children did large drawings

·      13^th March – found out did not get Meeting Point 2 commission at Norton Priory

·      13^th March – 24^th March Working with Ang Bartram as part of ‘ABBA’ collaboration in Project Space Plus, Lincoln – spent time making, painting, talking, planning future of the project through mind map, having different people documenting project, taking to visitors and working on a collaborative drawing

·      13^th March – found out A Small View is shutting so my proposed show in June will not now happen 

·      14^th and 16^th March – Assessment of MA fine art presentations

·      17^th March – Found out been longlisted along with Danica Maier by St Hugh’s foundation for Bummock Project working with Tennyson archive

·      18^th March – Visit to Class Room in Coventry for meeting with Matthew MacAulay about a future exhibition

·      19^th March – Bummock planning day with Danica Maier

·      20^th March – Aphantasia performance with Annie Morrad at Project Space Plus with live documentation by Martin Lang, Joana Cifre Cerda, Paul Goddard, Kate Buckley, Martin Scheuregger 

·      20^th March – Filmed by Bill Newsinger for a documentary as part of the CVAN EM Document project

·      21^st March – planning meeting with Dominic Symonds and Jackie Bolton for visiting speakers programme at University of Lincoln for 2017/18

·      21^st March – Interviewed by Paula Serifini from University of Leicester as part of the CVAN EM Document project

·      22^nd March – visit to NCCD with MA Fine Art students and Professor Anne Chick for tour of exhibition

·      24^th March – Spoke at ‘Make Practice Perfect’ symposium at The Collection as part of the CVAN EM Document project 

·      24^th March – Saw new studio for first time at General Practice

·      24^th March – Film night ‘Documentary is Another Type of Fiction’ co-organised by Phil Cosker at Waddington Hub as part of Waddington Cultural Collective series of events

·      25^th March – 31^st March – Planning for Punctuation³ show at The Collection for MA Fine Art students

·      27^th March – Bummock day with Danica Maier, plenty of planning in day and meeting with Advisor Ashley Gallant in the evening

·      30-31^st March – Prepared a proposal for The Broadcaster with Rob Flint for 12 month curatorial ‘takeover’

·      31^st March – Met with Bummock project advisor, Tris Aver; visited Lace Archive and Backlit with Danica Maier and Lucy Renton

Exhibitions visited in March

 

31st March, Claire Baily and Ian Jackon, Losers Gym, Nottingham

31st March, Giorgio Saddoti, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham

31st March, Strangers Not Allowed on These Works, Nottingham Castle

31st March, Matthew Darbyshire, Nottingham Castle

29th March, Postcard Exhibition, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

22nd March, Me, Myself and I, The Collection, Lincoln

22nd March, Lyndall Phelps, NCCD, Sleaford

22nd March, What Do I Need To DO To Make It OK?, NCCD, Sleaford

22nd March, 3D Printing: The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful, NCCD, Sleaford

22nd March, Syann Van Niftrik, NCCD, Sleaford

18th March, The Place is Here, Nottingham Contemporary

18th March, Trevor Sutton, Class Room, Coventry

18th March, Jean Painlevé, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

18th March, Oliver Beer, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

13th March, ABBA, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

10th March, Nathan Coley, Paraffin, London

10th March, Richard Wilson, Annely Juda, London

10th March, Monochrome, Ordovas, London

10th March, Maria Lassnig, Hauser & Wirth, London

10th March, Elif Uras, Pippy Houldsworth, London

10th March, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Pippy Houldsworth, London

10th March, John Bock, Sadies HQ, London

10th March, The supreme rifts…a measured propinquity, Marian Goodman, London

10th March, Jaki Irvine, Frith Street, London

10th March, Park Seo-Bo, White Cube, London

10th March, Barabara Karsten, Thomas Dane, London

10th March, Anna Gallaccio, Thomas Dane, London

9th March, Speed Processing Slowly, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

4th March, Eye of the Artist, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

4th March, Our Choice, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

4th March, Annie O’Ne, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

4th March, Garrett Phelan, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2nd March, Irish Art 1870-1970: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2nd March, The Way Home - Mid Twentieth Century Irish Works, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2nd March, Gut Instinct, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

1st March, John Hyatt, Home, Manchester

1st March, ...In Dart Times, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

1st March, Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Manchester Art Gallery

1st March, Wynford Dewhurst, Manchester Art Gallery

1st March, Suki Chan, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester

 

Activities

·      Tuesday –Thursdays – Teaching and doing admin work for BA and MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln

·      Wednesdays - Arranged Art Talks at the Collection by Steve Fossey and Gerard Williams

·      1^st April – Open Day for MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln

·      1^st April – Informed artists selected for working with George Boole archive in Cork as part of Bummock project

·      1^st April – Moved first stuff into new studio and have been painting in there since including studio days on 3^, (with my 8 year old son on) 7, 12, 17, 19^,  April

·      1-30^th April – Works have been arriving form artists for art auction

·      8^th April – To Manchester to pick up works from Tracey Eastham, Simon Woolham and Pavel Büchler for art auction

·      8-21^st April – Been building website for art auction

·      12^th April – Opening of general Practice project space with exhibition Ordinary Radar that I showed work in

·      13 – 14^th April – met with Danica Maier for Bummock planning meetings

·      17^th April – General Practice studio meeting to decide on future plans

·      18^th April – Met with Daniel Sean Kelly to visit Two Queens

·      18^th April – Meeting with all Document artists at CVANEM in Leicester and planned for future of Document project

·      20^th April – Meeting with Danica Maier for Bummock planning 

·      20^th April – Sent info for my page on new General Practice website

·      21^st April – Meeting with Steve Dutton in London for SAR conference planning

·      22^nd April – Met with Danica Maier and Sian Vaughan planning for Bummock

·      22^nd April - Attended symposium at Freud Museum

·      22-30 April – sent off final proposal for Broadcaster curatorial takeover and made final selection of artists

·      23^rd April – Building wall in studio for General Practice project space

·      27^th April -  Flew to Helsinki, gallery visits and met with Hannu Karjalainen

·      28-29 April – Presented ‘Obstract’and updated it throughout and in response to the conference with Steve Dutton our project at SAR conference, ‘Please Specify!’ in Helsinki

·      29-30 April – wrote and submitted a proposal for Artangel 

 

 

 

Exhibitions visited in April

 

30th April, Arttu Merimaa, Sinne, Helsinki

30th April, Ars17 Hello World!, Kiasma, Helsinki

30th April, Marcus Eek, Helsinki Contemporary

30th April, Juhana Moisander, Simo Ripatti and Nora Tapper, Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki

27th April, Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi, Finnish Salvation Army, Helsinki

27th April, Food Waste, Virka Gallery, Helsinki

27th April, Shawne Michaelain Holloway, Sorbus, Helsinki

27th April, Art Jewellery Tales, Venture Gallery, Helsinki

27th April, Elisa Heinonen, Gallery G 12, Helsinki

27th April, Tiina Vainio, Galleria Bronda, Helsinki

27th April, Maija Närhinen, Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki

27th April, Pekka Niskanen and Robert Aeberhard, Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki

22nd April, Secrets of the Soul, Freud Museum, London

22nd April, Paul Coldwell, Freud Museum, London

22nd April, Martine Syms, Camden Arts Centre, London

22nd April, Paul Johnson, Camden Art Centre, London

22nd April, Geta Brătescu, Camden Art Centre, London

21st April, Antonio R Montesinos, SCAN Project Room, London

21st April, Perverts, Cell Project Space, London

21st April, Elizabeth McAlpine, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

21st April, Christina Mackie, Herald St, London

21st April, Fugazi, Division of Labour, London

21st April, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, Maureen Paley, London

21st April, Concrete + Clay, Roaming Room, London

21st April, Collectors Choice II, Gimpel Fils, London

21st April, Tony Cragg, Holtermann Fine Art, London

21st April, The Ends of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, London

21st April, Double Take, Skarstedt Gallery, London

21st April, Lucio Fontana, M&L Fine Art, London

21st April, Jean Tinguely, Nahmad Projects, London

21st April, Colour, is, Waddington Custot, London

21st April, Peter Dreher, Mayor Gallery, London

21st April, Richard Tuttle, Pace, London

21st April, Fred Tomaselli, White Cube, London

21st April, Sam Francis, Bernard Jacobson, London

21st April, Elif Uras, Pippy Houldsworth, London

21st April, Stefanie Heinze,  Pippy Houldsworth, London

21st April, Sol Le Witt, Marian Goodman, London

21st April, Annette Messager, Marian Goodman, London

18th April, Megan Smith,  Two Queens, Leicester

18th April, Viktor Timofeev, Two Queens, Leicester

18th April, No Copyright Infringement Intended, Phoenix, Leicester

17th April, Tom Hackett, The Collection, Lincoln

12th April, Ordinary Radar, General Practice, Lincoln

8th April, Ryan Martin, PS Mirabel, Manchester

8th April, Sharon Leahy Clark, Paper Gallery, Manchester

8th April, The Hum, Caustic Coastal, Manchester

8th April, Leo Fitzmaurice, Caustic Coastal, Manchester

8th April, John Akomfrah, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, New Sculpture, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Deanna Petherbridge, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Andy Warhol, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Sooni Taraporevala, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

8th April, Barbara Brown, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

5th April, Interotium, Interactive Design, Art and Design Building, Lincoln 

 

 

 

Activities

·      Tuesday –Thursdays – Teaching and doing admin work for BA and MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln

·      Wednesdays – Arranged final Art Talk of academic year at the Collection by Medina Hammad

·      1^st May – Sent invitation emails to 6 of the 8 artists for curatorial project, TEXTIMAGETEXT at the Broadcaster

·      1-31^st May – continue to build website for auction

·      3-4^th May – Training at University of Lincoln on Unconscious Bias and Interview training

·      4^th May – To Cardiff with Danica Maier, talking through Bummock

·      5^th May – Delivered with Danica Maier our paper Rummage to Bypass at Archive Unbound symposium at Cardiff University

·      8-22^nd May – Selected film clips for NOX screening

·      6^th – 10^th May – To Switzerland to teach at Lucerne University 

·      11-31st May – Assessing MA Fine Art students for studio work and reports at University of Lincoln

·      12^th May – New Aphantasia piece with Annie Morrad at Project Space Plus with live documenters

·      12^th – 21^st May – Wrote and complied  Obstract submission for Research Catalogue for Ruuki journal with Steve Dutton

·      13^th May – Site visit with Gemma Green to The Broadcaster

·      13^th May – WCC social night

·      15^th May – Meetings with Danica Maier at Stanley Kubrick Archive to meet Richard Daniels and Alessio Antonlolli at Gasworks Gallery

·      16^th May – Went to talk by Áine Phillips

·      21^st May - Took Mum around galleries in London

·      22^nd and 26^th May – Interviewed 10 candidates for lecturer at University of Lincoln

·      23-26^th May – Installation week of Punctuated³ exhibition at the Collection

·      24^th May – Assessing BA fine art students at University of Lincoln

·      25^th May – Birthday in the studio :-)

·      26^th May Opening of BA Fine Art show at University of Lincoln

·      27^th May - Opening of Punctuated³ exhibition at the Collection

·      28^th May – Soft launch of Mardi Gras Requiem – an auction I have organised to raise money for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

·      31^st May – Accepted for Paradox conference with Steve Dutton 

 

Exhibitions visited in May

 

27th May, Punctuated³, The Collection, Lincoln

26th May, Do Not Microwave, Art Building, Lincoln

25th May, BA Photography show, General Practice, Lincoln

24th May, Nox: Masking the Figure, General Practice, Lincoln

23rd May, Transporting the Past into the Future: Archaeology of the Lincoln Eastern Bypass, The Collection, Lincoln

21st May, John Latham, Serpentine Gallery, London

21st May, Speak, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

21st May, Chris Ofiii, National Gallery, London

21st May, Alberto Giacometti, Tate Modern, London

21st May, Mark Wallinger, St Paul’s Cathedral, London

14th May, Zak Ove, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

14th May, Anne Purkiss, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

14th May, (Re)Construct, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

14th May, Tony Cragg, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

10th May, Bernard Lavier, Kunstmuseum Luzern

10th May, Claudia Compte, Kunstmuseum Luzern

10th May, Von Früh bis Spät, Kunstmuseum Luzern

7th May, Fritz Glarner’s “Rockefeller Dining Room”
revisited by Alfredo Häberli, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, Marlow Moss, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, Cerith Wyn Evans, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, Andrew Bick, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

7th May, SPeak, Lokal, Kunsthalle Zurich

7th May, Collection on Display: «Communities», Migros Museum, Zurich

7th May, Liz Magor, Migros Museum, Zurich

6th May, Damien Carbanes, Foundation Fernet-Branca, St Louis

6th May, Rachel Lumsden, Fondation Fernet-Branca, St Loius

 

Activities

·      Tuesday –Thursdays – Teaching and doing admin work for BA and MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln

·      1^st June – Selected work from BA Fine Art at Lincoln for Free Range show in London

·      1 – 2nd June – Wrote and sent off proposal for Performative Pedagogies symposium with Annie Morrad

·      1^st June – Wrote proposal for next ABBA project with Ang Bartram

·      2^nd June – Externalling at Anglia Ruskin University for BA Fine Art

·      2– 9^th June -  worked on funding bid for St Hugh’s Foundation for the Arts

·      5^th June – led presentation and discussion about cultural partnerships in East Midlands with Lincoln School of Fine and Performing Arts

·      5/7/8/19/20 June – Grabbed bits of studio time

·      6^th June – found out got into Harley open Exhibition

·      7^th June – Planned joint performance with Annie Morrad

·      8^th June – Started planning joint performance with Joana Cifre-Cerda

·      8^th June – Selected and organised Critical Encounters talks for 2017/18 with Dominic Symonds and Jackie Boulton

·      8/15/29 June - Coaching sessions with Kate Buckley

·      9^th June – Bummock day with Danica Maier including workshop with Tennyson society

·      13/14^th June – Externalling at Hereford College of Art for BA Fine Art

·      18^th June – dropped off work at Harley Gallery

·      19^th June – Met with members of RAW in Rotherham and Genera Practice about future link ups

·      19-26^th June – wrote presentation for Critical Encounters, expanding upon ‘Obstract’ by Steve Dutton and myself

·      20^th June – Examination board at Anglia Ruskin University for BA Fine Art

·      21^st June – Filming exhibition at The Collection with students

·      21^st June – Had 3 photographs taken on adapted scanner by Daz Disley at General Practice

·      22^nd June – Away day for School of Fine and Performing Arts, University of Lincoln at Doddington Hall

·      23/24^th June – Installed works by Ellen Brady and Gemma Green for first of TextImageText year long series of solo shows in The Broadcaster, Waddington and Wellingore

·      26^th June Presented ‘Obstract for Midpointness’ to colleagues at Critical Encounters series of academic papers at University of Lincoln

·      28^th June – Started preparing a journal article for the jounra of sonic studies with Annie Morrad

·      29^th June – sent off information about next Aphantasia ‘gig’ at AND event space with Annie Morrad and Steve Dutton

·      30^th June -  Bummock meeting with Danica Maier

 

 Exhibitions visited in June

 

26th June, Joana Cifre Cerda, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

24th June, Gemma Green, The Broadcaster, Waddington

24th June, Grennan and Sperandio, Waddington Village hall

23rd June, Ellen Brady, the Broadcaster, Wellingore

20th June, Lesbos and Syria, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, The Frua-Valsecchi collection, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, From Kabul to Kolkata, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, Sampled Lives, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

20th June, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge

19th June, Aid&Abet, Elan, Cambridge

19th June, Jem Finer, Supercomputer, Cambridge

12 June, Summer Show 2017, HCA, Hereford

7th June, Fractopia, General Practice, Lincoln

5th June, CLM MMXIV – MMXVII, Ruddocks, Lincoln

4th June, Barbara Hepworth, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Henry Moore , Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Gyorgy Gordon, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Disobedient Bodies, Hepworth, Wakefield

4th June, Approaching Thunder, Hepworth, Wakefield

2nd June, The Bees Knees, Cambridge School of Art

 

·      Tuesday –Thursdays – Teaching and doing admin work for BA and MA Fine Art at University of Lincoln

·      1-28 July – Promoted and pushed Mardi Gras Requiem auction to raise money for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

·      1^st July – Took part in workshop by Felicity Shum for my kids at The Collection

·      4^th July – Attended Doing Deceleration symposium at Nottingham Contemporary

·      5-7^th July – Installed and attended Free Range for BA Fine Art, University of Lincoln

·      8^th July – went to prize giving of Harley Open, didn’t win!

·      10, 11, 12, 14 July – Attended Summer Lodge to work on Bummock project with Danica Maier and Lucy Renton, worked on drawings, animation

·      11^th July – Skype meeting with Padraig Spillane for Bummock Project

·      11^th July – Meeting with Joff and Ollie for Bummock project with Danica Maier 

·      13^th July – Postgraduate board for MA fine art at University of Lincoln, and lots of interviews

·      14^th July – site visit to Backlit gallery with Danica Maier and Lucy Renton for Bummock project

·      14^th July – invited 10 people to collaborate by creating a soundtrack for an animation I am making

·      14^th July – started planning ‘Postman Time’ proposal for MA courses at Lincoln

·      16/17/18^th July – Installed Mardi Gras Requiem Auction in Project Space Plus with Rob Britt

·      19-3^rd July – Visited Documenta and Munster Skulpture Project with Steve Dutton and Steve Hawley 

·      20^th July – Maybe found next venue for Midpointness in Kassel

·      21^st July – cooked plan for a project with Steve Dutton and Steve Hawley

·      24, 27^th July – much needed time in the studio

·      24^th and 27^th July – Sent out newsletters, mainly to promote Mardi Gras Requiem

·      26^th July – Visit to Tennyson Research Centre with Grace Timmins for Bummock Project with Dancia Maier, Sian Vaughan and Sarah Bennet

·      26^th July – sent off PhD application for 2^nd time after 1^st time it didn’t work!

·      27^th July – Made a new piece of work using perspex jigsaw elements sent from RAW in Rotherham on top of reproductions of paintings

·      28^th July – Met with Alex Pearl to discuss future show in GP

·      28^th July – Last day of Mardi Gras Requiem art auction – raised £10,178.78 for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

·      29^th July – Walk between Wellingore and Waddington with Broadcaster artists Ellen Brady and Gemma Green

·      30-31^st July – Took down Mardi Gras Requiem at Project Space Plus and started sending out artworks to successful bidders

Exhibitions visited in July

23rd July, Pierre Huyghe, Thomas Schutte, Skulptur Projekte Munster
22nd July, Tom Burr, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster
22nd July, Michael Asher, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Munster
22nd July, Nicole Eisenman, Rebecca Horn, Mika Rottenberg, Michael Smith Ayse Ekmen, Oscar Tuazon, Remy Zaugg, Laura Favaretto, Huang Yong Ping, Claus Oldenberg, Thomas Schutte, Hito Steyerl, Jorges Pardo, Ilya Kabakov, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ei Arakawa, Donald Judd, Rosemarie Trockel, Susan Phillpsz, Denni Adams, Koki Tanaka, John Knight, Nora Schultz, Michael Dean, Alexandra Pirci, Daniel Buren, Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Skulptur Projekte Munster
21st July, Jeremy Deller, Aram Barholl, Guntersdorfer/Klassen, Pelles Empire, Cosima Von Bonin & Tom Burr, Herve Youmbi, Dan Graham, Geroges Brecht, Herman de Vries, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sany, Ludger Gerdes, Andreas Bunte, Martin Boce, Richard Tuttle, Lothar Baumgarten, Nairy Baghramian, Silke Wagner, Justin Matherly, Skulptur Projekte Munster 
20th July, Untern Unter Ground, Kafe Neu, Kassel 
20th July, Buffet Tomago, Tokonoma Kassel
20th July, We & The Others, Warte Fur Kunst, , Kassel
20th July, Museum Fur Sepulkralkultur, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Grimmwelt Kassel, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Documenta Halle, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Naturkundemuseum Im Ottoneum, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Fridericianum, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Ehemaliger Unterirdischer Bahnhof, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Tofufabrik, Documenta, Kassel
20th July, Neue Neue Galerie, Documenta, Kassel
19th July, Neue Galerie, Documenta, Kassel
19th July, Palais Bellevue, Documenta, Kassel 
18th July, Mardi Gras Requiem, Project Space Plus, Lincoln
11th July, Hope, Project Space Plus, Lincoln
8th July, Olivier Marc Thomas Leger, Harley Gallery, Wisbech
8th July, Harley Gallery Open, Wisbech
8th July, Artempo, Clumber Park
7th July, Richard Smith, Flowers Gallery, London
7th July, Ha Chong-Hyun, Almine Rech Gallery, London
7th July, Pablo Picasso, Gagosian, London
7th July, Since 1972, Cardi Gallery, London
7th July, Guy Mees, David Zwirner, London
7th July, Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, London
7th July, Joseph Beuys, Waddington Custot, London
7th July, Rothko, Cage, Turrell, Nahmad Projects, London
7th July, Painting on the Edge, Stephen Friedman, London
7th July, Channing Hansen, Stephen Friedman, London
7th July, Nathalie du Pasquier, Pace, London

7th July, Adrian Villar Rojas, Marian Goodman, London

7th July, Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman, London

7th July, Summer Breeze, Frith St Gallery, London

7th July, Gabriel Kuri, Sadie Coles, London

7th July, Ida Applebroog, Hauser & Wirth, London

7th July, Lee Lozano, Hauser and Wirth, London

7th July, Aleksandar Duravcevic, Ordovas, London

7th July, Philip Guston, Hauser and Wirth, London

7th July, Milton Avery, Victoria Miro, London

7th July, Berner Vanet, Blain Southern, London

6th July, Free Range, Old Trumans Brewery, London
6th July, Emanuel Almborg, Whitechapel Gallery London 

6th July, Q&A: Artists in Conversation, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, Self Portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, A Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery London

6th July, Benedict Drew, Whitechapel Gallery London

4th July, Exhausted Academics, Nottingham Contemporary

4th July, Lara Favaretto, Nottingham Contemporary

4th July, Wu Tsang, Nottingham Contemporary

3rd July, Images of Research, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

1st July, Felicity Shum, the Collection, Lincoln

 

Activities

 

1^st August – Worked on Bummock ACE application with Danica Maier

2^nd August – Completed external examiner report for Hereford College of Arts 

2^nd August – Set up with Annie Morrad and Steve Dutton at AND event Space

3^rd August - Performed Aphantasia (8 hour shifts) with Annie Morrad and Steve Dutton at AND event Space

4-13^th August – Holiday from art and most other things in Devon and Birmingham

14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31^st August – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art

16, 17, 20, 24 August – Days in the studio

20^th August – Met with Joana Cifre Cerda to plan our performance next month

20^th August – found out we have been given notice on General Practice studio

22^nd – General Practice meeting to plan for future of studio/project space and projects discussion

30^th August – Found out got ACE grant for Bummock project at Tennyson Research Centre with Danica Maier

31^st August – Completed external examiner report for Anglia Ruskin University

31^st August – Met with Steve Dutton to plan for Paradox conference and put proposal together for Whitstable Biennial 

31^st August – completed report for EMVAN document project

 

Exhibitions visited in August

31^st August, Everything Flows, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

26th August, Flow, Kingston Art Group Gallery, Hull

26th August, States Of Play, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Dead Bod, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Jamie Reid, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Len Price, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

26th August, Ferens: Hull’s Philanthropist, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

26th August, Offshore: Artists Explore the Sea, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

26th August, Masterpieces from the Royal Collection: Rembrandt The Shipbuilder and his Wife Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

26th August, Nick Hunt, The Deep,  Hull

26th August, Tania Kovats, The Deep and C4DI, Hull

25th August, Michael Pinsky, Hull’s Tidal Surge Barrier

25th August, Claire Morgan, Princess Quay, Hull

25th August, Richie Culver, Whitefriargate, Hull

24th August, Louisa Chambers, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

24th August,  Star City, The Collection, Lincoln

15th August, Rob Britt, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

13th August, I want! I Want!, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

13th August, My Story, Our Journey, Birmingham Museum and Gallery

13th August, Sheela Gowda, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 

13th August, Sidney Nolan, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 

13th August, Matthew Pagett, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, Claude Monet, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, Only Light and Shadow, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, More Real Than Life, Barber Institute, Birmingham

13th August, Rachel Goodyear,  The New Art Gallery Walsall 

13th August, Soheila Sokhanvari, The New Art Gallery Walsall 

13th August, Quentin Blake, The New Art Gallery Walsall 

13th August, Promiscuous Collaboration, The New Art Gallery Walsall 

13th August, Barbara Nicholls, The New Art Gallery Walsall 

3rd August, Aphantasia, AND event Space, London

3rd August, John Latham, AND event Space, London

2nd August, Jimmy Robert, Peer, London

 

 

Activities

 

1^st September – Sent off external examiner report to Anglia Ruskin University

4, 5, 6, 7, 11,12,13,14,18,19,20,21,25,26,27, 28 September – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art and teaching on BA Fine Art

4,11th September – Days in the studio

4^th September – Graduation of BA Fine Art students at University of Lincoln

12-13^th September – Assessed MA Fine Art students

13^th September – Viewing of new studio building

13-22^nd September – wrote review of Münster Skulptur Projekte and documenta 14 for a-n

14^th September – Created and presented mine and Steve Dutton’s project Obstract at Paradox conference

15^th September – Opening of Matter – the MA Fine Art show at University of Lincoln

18^th September – Interview for PhD at University of Lincoln, accepted.

18^th September – Alistair Payne, External examiner visit for MA Fine Art

19^th September- First day for new students on MA Fine Art

22^nd September - Coaching session with Kate Buckley

22^nd September – Lots of art admin

22^nd September – Sent animation for lace archive to 10 composers/musicians

22^nd September – Started planning out design for artist book for Lace Archive Bummock project.

22^nd September – Met with Danica Maier about Bummock Project

23^rd September – Cleared up and took down walls in the studio

24^th September – Installed Steve Dutton work in Broadcaster

25^th September – Built MA studio with Rob Britt

25^th September – Printed out works for Isherwood Gallery exhibition and Manifesto show in USA

27^th September - #Critday with General Practice in Tap and Spile pub

28^th September – Started Mind map for PhD

28^th September - Wrote Abstract for Teaching Painting conference 

29^th September – Admin day for art/lots of reading

29^th September – Uploaded Aphantasia Video to Vimeo of Raft of Medusa

29^th September – Installed Anne Charnock work in Broadcaster

29^th September – did Risograph designs ready for show at Isherwood Gallery

29^th September – made some Aphantasia films for Cornerstone Gallery show

 

Exhibitions visited in September

23rd September, Jake Moore, The Collection, Lincoln

20th September, Michelle Forrest Beckett, x-Church, Gainsborough

14th September, MAtter, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

12th September, Daniel Richter, Camden Arts Centre, London

12th September, Jennifer Tee, Camden Arts Centre, London

12th September, Andy Holden & Peter Holden, Former Newington Library, London

12th September, Norman Ackroyd, Eames Fine Art, London

12th September, Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London

12th September, Marianna SImnett, Matt’s Gallery, London

12th September, Jean Dubuffet, Pace, London

12th September, Eileen Agar, Redfren Gallery, London

12th September, Conroy Maddox, Redfern Gallery, London

12th September, Julie Cockburn, Flowers Central, London

10th September, The New Observatory, Fact, Liverpool 

10th September, Art at the Heart of the Bluecoat, Bluecoat, Liverpool

10th September, Abacus, Bluecoat, Liverpool

10th September, Coming Out, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

2nd September, Ross Oliver, General Practice, Lincoln

 

 Activities

·      Visited Steve Dutton in Sheffield to plan Midppintness at Airspace on 3rd October

·      Teaching MA and BA Fine Art at University of Lincoln Tuesday - Thursday

·      Invited artists to be part of Midppintness at Airspace, Stoke on Trent

·      Met with James Richardson about setting up studios and artist-run gallery in Lincoln

·      Started 2nd Rakes Progress Screen-print

·      Painted studio wall with magnetic paint

·      Planned Student study trip to Rome

·      Gave talk on my work at the Collection, Lincoln 5th October

·      Bill Newsinger filmed me in the studio with audio recording for Document project on 10th October

·      Made and submitted work to Unlimited Imprint journal

·      Sent off proposal for article for journal of contemporary painting

·      Wrote and submitted proposal to Apex Art gallery in NYC for ‘Midst of the Midpoint’ with Steve Dutton

·      Meeting at CASS Sculpture Foundation for Bummock pitch with Danica Maier

·      Planning meeting For Midpointness show at Airspace with Steve Dutton in Sheffield on 21st  October

·      Bill Newsinger filmed me in the print room at The University of Lincoln with audio recording for Document project on 24th October

·      Matthew Macaulay, researcher at Coventry University and director of Pluspace gallery interviewed me for his research and for a possible exhibition on 24th October

·      Rejection letter for Hayward Touring Show proposal

·      Spoke with Dominic Symonds, Director of research for School of Fine and Performing Arts at University of Lincoln about my research through practice on 24th October

·      Met with Angela Bartram and Dominic Symonds at University of Lincoln to discuss my research plans for 2016/17

·      Attended Homeless Sculpture Symposium at Whitworth, Manchester on 27th October

·      Attended The Artist in a Collected World at Chelse School of Art, London on 28th Octboer

·      Took students on study trip to Rome – 31st October

 

 

31st October, Permanent Collection, Vatican Museum, Rome 

28th October, Phillippe Parreno, Tate Modern, London 

28th October, Laura Owens, Sadie Coles HQ, London

28th October, Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London

27th October, Anya Gallaccio, Whitworth, Manchester

27th October, New Sculpture, Whitworth, Manchester

27th October, Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, Whitworth, Manchester

27th October, Idris Khan, Whitworth, Manchester

23rd October, Mary Martin Thomas, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, Editions and Objects, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, David Shrigley, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, Kaws, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

23rd October, Not Vital,Yorkshire Sculpture Park

21st October, Dinh Q. Lê, Site Gallery, Sheffield

21st October, Tom Beesley, Bloc, Sheffield

17th October, On Display, CASS sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

17th October, A Beautiful Disorder, CASS sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

17th October, A Beautiful Disorder - Maquette Exhibition, CASS sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

16th October, The National or the Skip, Averard Hotel, London

16th October, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Serpentine Gallery, London

16th October, Helen Marten, Serpentine Sackler, Gallery, London

15th October, Cilla Eisner, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

4th October, ESP, St Mary le Whigford, Lincoln

Activities

 

2^nd October  - Coaching with Kate Buckley

2^nd October – printed 6 new Risograph prints for Isherwood Gallery show

2^nd October – Made a 5 year Manifesto

2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31st October – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art and teaching on BA Fine Art

4^th October – Workshop and Talk with Simon Blackmore from Owl Project that I organised at University of Lincoln

5^th October – met with MA course leaders to plan ‘Postman Time’ collaborative project

5^th October – Sent mailchimp newsletter

6^th October – Bummock Planning day with Danica Maier

6^th October – Launch of Bummock at Tennyson Research Centre with a talk and workshop by me and Danica Maier At The Methodist Chapel in Waddington

8^th October – Bummock Planning day with Danica Maier

8^th October – Founded ftb Press with Danica Maier and created logo

9^th October – made work for Dorothy C. Hudson book, curated by Lucy Renton

9^th October – Confirmed solo show at Class Room in Coventry for Feb 2018

9^thOctober – Worked on design for Lace Archive artist book

10^th October – Performance with Annie Morrad to MA Fine Art students at University of Lincoln.

11^th October – Workshop and Talk with Alex Pearl that I organised at University of Lincoln

11^th October –Talk by Shantel Ehrenberg that I organised at University of Lincoln

13^th October – Finalising presentation for Performative Pedagogies with Annie Morrad 

14^th October – ‘Aphantasia’ presentation/performance/paper with Annie Morrad for Performative Pedagogies 

15^th October – Made up PhD bookshelf and converted home studio to office

18^th October – Workshop and Talk with Annie Morrad that I organised at University of Lincoln

22^nd October – installed ‘There But Different’ at Cornerstone Gallery

23rd October – Tutorials and talk to students at Liverpool Hope University

23^rd October – private view of ‘There But Different’ at Cornerstone Gallery

24^th October – tour of Frequency Festival with MA Fien Art students form Lincoln 

25^th October –Talk by Soheila Sokhanvari that I organised at University of Lincoln

25^th October – Attended talk by Assemble

26^th October – Received first soundtrack for Bummock: Lace Archive animation

27^th October – worked on article for Journal of Sonic Studies with Annie Morrad and planned next performance idea

30^th October – Finished design of artist book for Bummock: Lace Archive 

30^th October – wrote text panel/press release entry for Bummock: Lace Archive exhibition at Backlit

30^th October – worked on animation for Bummock: Lace Archive
31st October - Printed ReconFigure Paintings ready for solo show at Isherwood gallery

 

Exhibitions visited in October

 

29th October, Tom Dekyvere, Lincoln Castle

29th October, Assemble, Lincoln Cathedral

24th October, Daz Disley, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

24th October, General Practice, LPAC, Lincoln

24th October, Jamie Shovlin, Superfi, Lincoln 

24th October, Usher Young collective, Collection, Lincoln

24th October, Nicolas Canot & Gabriel-Marie Farey, Ruddocks, Lincoln

24th October, Sian Wright, Guildhall, Lincoln

24th October, Hetain Patel, Centra Market, Lincoln

24th October, Laurence Payot, Ruddocks, Lincoln

24th October, Scenoscme, St Swithans, Lincoln

24th October, Invisible Flock, Ruddocks, 

24th October, Karl Ohri, Frequency,  Lincoln

24th October, Andy Gracie, Postengate, Lincoln

24th October, Matt Humphries, Gallery St Martins, Lincoln

23rd October, Serving Library, Exhibition Research lab, Liverpool

23rd October, There But Different, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool

22nd October, Roy Lichenstein, Tate Liverpool

22nd October, In the Peaceful Dome, Bluecoat, Liverpool

22nd October, Culture Shifts, Open Eye, Liverpool

21st October, Helmet Lemke, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Enlighten, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Owl Project, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Foreigners, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, 60/70, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Mike Chavez Dawson, Bury Art Gallery

21st October, Risham Sayed, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Neha Choksi, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Waqas Khan, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Mehreen Murtaza, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Hetain Patel, Manchester Art Gallery

21st October, Sooni Taraporevala, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Barbara Brown, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Beyond Dementia, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Cozens and Cozens, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Cornelia Parker, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Beyond Borders, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Raqib Shaw, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Maeve Brennan, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, South Asian Modernists 1953-63, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Steve McQueen, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

21st October, Raqs Media Collective, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 

6th October, Tennyson’s Wake, Methodist Chapel, Waddington

4th October, The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful, Project Space Plus, Lincoln 

3rd October, Caroline Wright, The Collection, Lincoln

 

 

 

1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 November – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art and teaching on BA Fine Art

2^nd November – Gallery hopping in London with John Rimmer

3^rd  November – Met with other Document CVAN EM artists in Derby

3^rd November – performed Aphantasia at Film Free and Easy at Primary in Nottingham

6^th November – Installed solo show at Isherwood Gallery in Wigan

8th November – Workshop and Talk with Martin Scheuregger that I organised at University of Lincoln

10^th November – Private view of my solo show at Isherwood Gallery in Wigan

11^th November – visited new Rogue studios in Gorton

13^th November – interviewed by Paula Serafini from University of Leicester for Document Project CVAN EM

15th November – Workshop and Talk with Tessa Farmer that I organised at University of Lincoln

17-18^th November – Performed at Documents Alternatives at Airspace gallery in Stoke on Trent

22nd November – Workshop and Talk with Daniel Hunt that I organised at University of Lincoln

24^th November – Bummock planning day with Danica Maier

25 - 27^th November – worked on funding bid for funding papers at two upcoming conferences

27^th November – Worked on article for journal of Sonic Studies

27^th November – Painted a new ReconFigure Painting

30^th November – Performed with Joana Cifre Cerda at Project Space Plus, Lincoln

 

Exhibitions visited in November

 

28th November, Joana Cifre Cerda, Project Space PLus, Lincoln

16th November, Alican Erkol, Nottingham Contemporary

16th November, States of America, Nottingham Contemporary

16th November, Documents, Alternative #1, Airspce Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

14th November, Gallery From Gallery As Studio, Project space Plus, Lincoln

10th November, Andrew Bracey, Isherwood Gallery, Wigan 

10th November, The Edwardians, Manchester Art Gallery

10th November, The return of Memory, Home, Manchester 

10th November, Brass Art, Chetham’s Library, Manchester

10th November, Digital Matters, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester 

10th November, Abstraction and Art now, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

10th November, William Blake, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

10th November, Going Public - The Kirkland Collection, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

10th November, Ravilious & Co, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

3rd November, Film, Free & Easy Plays a Blinder, Primary, Nottingham

3rd November, (co)Here, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

3rd November, Lightseekers | Art as Life, Quad, Derby

2nd November, Cally Spooner, Whitechapel Gallery, London, London 

2nd November, Commissions from Performa’s Archives, Whitechapel Gallery, London, London

2nd November, Leonor Antunes, Whitechapel Gallery, London, London

2nd November, ISelf Collection: The End of Love, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2nd November, Jasper Johns, Royal Academy, London

2nd November, Marilyn, Flowers, Lips, Gun, Mirror, Cactus, Orvodas, London

2nd November, Marcel Broodthaers, Hauser & Wirth, London

2nd November, Jack Whitten, Hauser & Wirth,  London

2nd November, T J Wilcox, Sadie Coles, London

2nd November, Metafisica da Giardino, Nahmad Projects, London

2nd November, Gary Hume, Spruth Magers, London

2nd November, Sherrie Levine, David Zwirner, London

2nd November, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2nd November, Robert Longo, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2nd November, Reading di Chirico, Tornabuorni, London

2nd November, Tom Wesselmann, Gagosian, London

2nd November, Brice Marden, Gagosian, London

2nd November, John Akomfrah, Barbican, London

2nd November, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbican, London

 

4^th December – Bummock planning day with Danica Maier and meeting with Andrea Martin at the Collection

5^th December – Received confirmation of my fully funded PhD at University of Lincoln

6^th December - Workshop and Talk with Jamie George that I organised at University of Lincoln

8^th December – Bummock meeting with Danica Maier in London with Sarah Bennett and Pennina Barnett

10^th December – Completed tax return as self employed artist

11^th December – Painted a ReconFigure Painting

13^th December – Attended ‘The Annual Lady George Christmas Lecture, which was delivered by James Richardson this year

15^th December – Bummock meeting with Danica Maier

17^th December – General Practice studio Christmas party

18^th December – Reading and compiling bibliography in advance of PhD starting in January

20^th December – Installation by Rob Flint of his Broadcaster piece in Waddington and delivery of Nicolaus Gansterer piece for Wellingore
21-31 December – blissful period of time reading artbooks
28 December – wrote and uploaded my top ten exhibitions of 2017 to blog here 

Exhibitions visited in December2017

 

8th December, Turner and the Whale, Hull Maritime Museum, Hull

8th December, Turner Prize, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

8th December, Jason Bruges, Beverley Gate, Hull

8th December, A Colossal Wave!, Hull Marina, Hull

8th December, Alexander Reichardt, The Deep, Hull

8th December, Torn, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

8th December, Martin Parr, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

8th December, Olivia Arthur, Torn, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

7th December, Rob Flint, Division of Labour, London

7th December, Hannah Richards, By OTHER MEANS, London

7th December, Animal Mirror, SCAN, London

7th December, Nathalie du Pasquier, Camden Arts Centre, London

7th December, Christian Nyampeta, Camden Arts Centre, London

3rd December, Katharina Grosse, South London Gallery, London

3rd December, Zach Blas, Gasworks Gallery London

3rd December, Dan Cohen, Newport Street Gallery, London

1st December, Superflex, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Red Star Over Russia, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Ilya and Emila Kabakov, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Modigliani, Tate Modern, London

1st December, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marian Goodman, London

1st December, Ken Currie, Flowers, London

1st December, Christmas Pop-Up Prints and Editions Sale, Victoria Miro, London

1st December, Stan Douglas, Victoria Miro, London

1st December, Sophie Jung, Blain/Southern, London

1st December, James White, Blain/Southern, London

1st December, Bram Bogart, Vigo Gallery, London

1st December, Polly Apfelbaum, Frith Street, London

1st December, Arthur Jafa, Store X, London

1st December, Jeremy Shaw, Store X, London

1st December, Virgil Abloh and Ben Kelly, Store X, London

1st December, Ryoki Ikeda, Store X, London

1st December, Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery, London

1st December, Drawing Together, Coulthard Gallery, London

1st December, Chaim Soutine, Coulthard Gallery, London

1st December, Sean Lynch, Ronchini, London

1st December, Phillip King, Thomas Dane, London

1st December, Mark Vaux, Bernard Jackobson, London

1st December, Haim Steinbach, White Cube, London

1st December, Impulse, Pace, London

1st December, Gilbert and George, Levy Gorvy, London

1st December, LIGHT IN MOTION: Balla, Dorazio, Zappettini, Mazzoleni, London

1st December, Tony Matelli, Marlborough, London

1st December, Two Decades – British Printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s, Marlborough, London

1st December, Markers, Zwirner Gallery, London

1st December, Lee Bul, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1st December, Medardo Rosso, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1st December, Arnulf Rainer, Thaddaeus Ropac, London

1st December, Willem de Kooning, Skarstedt, London

1st December, Richard woods, Chelsea Space, London

1st December, Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870 – 1904), Tate Britain, London

1st December, Marguerite Humeau, Tate Britain, London

1st December, Rachel Whiteread, Tate Britain, London

1st December, Wade Guyton, Serpentine Gallery, London

1st December, Rose Wylie, Serpentine Gallery, London

 

 

 

 

 

Activities

 

1-8^th January – Reading art books when not in work!

2^nd January – Bummock meeting with Danica Maier

3^rd January – Painted in home studio

4^th January – Bummock day in Nottingham with Danica Maier, Photographed Lace Archive objects with Katja Hock and met catalogue designer Miriam Bean

5^th January – Wrote proposal for SAR conference, over the phone with Steve Dutton

7^th and 8^th January Bummock admin day, preparing for exhibition and symposium

8^th January – sent off proposal for Bummock to tour to Ruskin Gallery

8^th January – Painted a new RecoFigure Painting

8^th January – applied for New Contemporaries, strange to be student again

8, 9, 10 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 January– Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art and teaching on BA Fine Art

12-15^th January – research visit to Vienna, via London primarily to view R H Quaytman exhibition at The Secession

16^th January – First PhD meeting with supervisor, Dr Catherine George

16-20^th January – filled in forms needed for PhD

19^th January – external examiner visit for BA Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University 

20-22 and 25^th January – Installing Bummock: The Lace Archive at Backlit Gallery

26^th January –Spoke at Bummock: The Lace Archive symposium I co-organised with Danica Maier at Backlt Gallery

26^th January – Opening of Bummock: The Lace Archive at Backlt Gallery

27^th January – Opening of Yellow Belly exhibition at 20:21 gallery

29^th January – write various reflective log sheets for my PhD research

29^th January – saw preview of the ‘Document’ film Bill Newsinger has made about me as an artist

31^st January- travelled to Wolverhampton to meet with Christian Mieves and Euripides Altintzoglou

 

Exhibitions visited in January 2018

27th January, Yellow Belly, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Jane Walker, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Hotel Drawings, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Sinclair Ashman, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

27th January, Annabel McCourt, 20:21 Gallery, Scunthorpe

26th January, Bummock, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

23rd January, Line, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

14th January, Florian Hecker, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

14th January, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

14th January, Herbert Albrecht, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, In Her Majesty’s Hands: Medals of Maria Theresa, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, Point of View #20: Girolamo da Treviso, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, Reflections, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

14th January, Rubens: The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

13th January, Bruno Peinado, Mam Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna

13th January, Lionel Favre, Mam Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna

13th January, Hilario Isola, Mam Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna

13th January, Markus Redl, Gallery Kandlhofer, Vienna

13th January, watching sugar dissolve in a glass of water, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Nature Stories, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Julian Turner, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Art into Life!, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Hans Schabus, Mumok, Vienna

13th January, Gilbert Bretterbauer, Art Box, Vienna

13th January, Bill Seaman, Schauraum, Veinna

13th January, Ken Lum, Public Art Vienna

13th January, Lawrence Weiner, Public Art Vienna

13th January, Station Rose, Station Rose Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Michael Koch, Jan Arnold, Vienna

13th January, Elisabeth Czihak, Eikon Schaufenster Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Martha Jungwirth & Eva Schlegel, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Sakshi Gupta, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Sudarshan Shetty, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Chaux, Marin Janda Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Peter Jelitsch, Crone Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Christine de Grancy, Crone Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Material Traces, Charim Gallery,  Vienna

13th January, Jürgen Klauke, Gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

13th January, Birgit Jürgenssen, Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna

13th January, Olga Chernysheva, The Secession, Vienna

13th January, R H Quaytman, The secession, Vienna

12th January, The Unlimited Dream Company, Hannah Barry Gallery, London

12th January, Ilona Sagar, South London Gallery, London

12th January, Michael Armitage, South London Gallery, London

12th January, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Hauser & Wirth, London

12th January, Monika Sosnowska, Hauser & Wirth, London

12th January, Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, London

12th January, Carmen Herrara, Lisson Gallery, London

12th January, Roy Colmer, Lisson Gallery, London

12th January, Speech Acts, Lisson Gallery, London

1st January, Rob Flint, The Broadcaster, Waddington

 

 

 

1st February – Chaired a panel discussion with Christian Mieves and Euripides Altintzoglou at Nuneaton Museum and Gallery

1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 February - Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art 

1, 5, 7, 12, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27 February – reading and note taking for PhD

5th February – found out did not get in to John Moores Painting Prize

5th February – completed CVANEM document report form

7th February – Induction for PhD at University of Lincoln

9th February – Bummock meeting with Danica Maier

10th February – Gave curator’s tour of Bummock: The Lace Archive at Backlit with Danica Maier

10th February – met with Janis Jeffries to talk about Bummock and her essay for the catalogue

12th February – met with Nick Simpson to talk about his workshop for Bummock project with Tennyson at Redwood Primary school

14^th February – Dyslexia test

14^th February – Went to Critical Encounter talk by Peter Boenisch

15^th February – Critical Reading and Writing training for PhD  

16th February – Met with Kerry Harker and Document artists and participated in The Life and Times of a Visual Artist at New Art Exchange, including screenings of Document films by Bill Newsinger

16^th February – Tour of Bummock: The Lace Archive at Backlit for University of Lincoln students

17^th February – found out that I am dyslexic

18^th February – children’s workshop for Bummock: The Lace Archive at Backlit

18-19 February took down Bummock: The Lace Archive at Backlit

February

20-21 February – External examining in Hereford College of Art

23 February – Met with Paul Edwards, excellent conversation especially about importance of studios

23 February – started moving in to GP studio and painted wall

26 February – Bummock evaluation day with Danica Maier

26 February – Bummock meeting at The Collection with Andrea Martin and Danica Maier

27^th February – did first draft of Ethical approval form for my PhD research

 

Exhibitions visited in February 2018

23rd February, Tom Martin, The Collection, Lincoln

23rd February, Andy Weekes, The Collection, Lincoln

18th February, No Method, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

16th February, The Real DMZ, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

9th February, From The Land - Henry Moore, Ewen Henderson & Other Artists, The Collection Lincoln

9th February, Photographing Tutankhamun, The Collection Lincoln

6th February, Transitional States, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

2nd February, Nikolaus Gansterer, The Broadcaster, Wellingore

1st February, Subjectively Objective, Nuneaton Museum and Gallery 

1st February, Object Relations: Images in photography and painting, Nuneaton Museum and Gallery

 

 

1st March – put in image and abstract for Images of Research poster competition at University of Lincoln

1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 March - Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 March – reading and note taking for PhD

1, 2 March – made a recipe of how to make a ReconFigure Painting for the Recipe Book Project

2, 3, 5 - March – painted new ReconFigure Painting in between looking after snowed in children

3 March – Did a design for an artist book of my text –On Being Blinded by The Art of Painting 

3 March – Received the digital artwork for Mark Titchner’s Broadcaster

7 March – Went to talks by Steve Klee and Tom Conford as part of series of talks that I arrange at University of Lincoln

9, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29 March – Painting days :-) 

10/11 March – wrote and sent off application for residency at Sidney Nolan Trust

12 March – Helped deliver workshop by Nick Simpson as part of Bummock Tennyson at Redwood Primary School

14 March – Went to talk by Maurice Carlin part of series of talks that I arrange at University of Lincoln

15 March – screenprinted cover for ‘Blinded by the Art of Painting’ artist book

16 March – Visit to Wirksworth with Document artists to see Geoff Litherland’s studio, have a planning meeting and 2^nd public showing of films by Bill Newsinger

17, 18, 23 March – Bummock meeting with Danica Maier, inc ACE evaluation for Lace Archive

21 March – Went to talks by John Plowman and London Fieldworks as part of series of talks that I arrange at University of Lincoln

22 March – attended Painting Writing symposium at the Whitworth

24 March – installed Mark Titchner’s artwork in Waddington Broadcaster

26, 27, 28, 29, 30 March – Started new regime of getting up one hour earlier to paint for an hour at the start of the day  

26 March – bound an artist book –‘On Being Blinded by The Art of Painting’ with help from Barrie Tullett

26 March – Site visit to secret new art space and met with artist Kathrin Bohm

28 March – First PhD meeting with all my supervisors: Dr Catherine George, Dr Marie Thompson and Dr Steve Klee

28 March – Installed Jessica Smith’s piece for the Broadcaster, the last of my TEXTIMAGETEXT curatorial takeover

29 March – Had a needs assessment for my newly diagnosed dyslexia, looks like I am going to get some amazing voodoo support soon

30 March – Bummock day with Danica Maier, writing our paper for Textile and Place conference

 

Exhibitions visited in March 2018

22 March, Cozens and Cozens, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, Beyond Borders, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, South Asian Modernists 1953-63, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, John Staezker, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, In The Land, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, Cecily Brown, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

22 March, Apna, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

10 March, Upholstery: Evolution to Revolution, NCCD, Sleaford

10 March, Celia Smith, NCCD, Sleaford

10 March, Winter & Kurth, NCCD, Sleaford

10 March, Class of 2017, NCCD, Sleaford

7 March, Print!!, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

 

1, 2, 8, 9, 12, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30 April – reading and note taking for PhD

2, 3, 6, 9, 11 April – Early morning painting

2, 3, 13, 16, 23, 30 April – Painting days

3 April – Met up with Medina Hammad

5, 9 April – Bummock days with Danica Maier, preparing presentation for textile/Place conference, working on Leverhulme funding application and sorting images and editing text for Lace Archive publication

5 April – Got jointly authored article (with Steve Dutton) accepted for Ruuku journal, with amends though

6 April – to London with John Plowman and Gerry Williams for gallery hopping

7 April – Open day for University of Lincoln MA Fine Art course

7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30 April – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art 

11, 25 April - Went to talks by Steve Baker and Anna Francis as part of series of talks that I arrange at University of Lincoln

11 April – Found out I got on to PhD by Practice residency at Sidney Nolan Trust

12 April – Presented paper with Danica Maier on Bummock at Textiles and Place Conference at MMU

13 April – Found out my paper did not get accepted to Teaching painting conference

18, 19, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29 April – Worked on promotion application

19/20 April – Midpointness planning meeting with Steve Dutton 

20 April – presented a practice-as-research paper at Documents Alternatives symposium at Bath Spa University 

26 April – 3^rd supervision meeting for my PhD with Dr’s Catherine George and Marie Thompson at my studio

27 April – Screenings and Q&A for CVAN EM Document films at University of Derby and ArtCore, Derby

29 April – Worked on Bummock with Danica (Leverhulme Trust application, editing catalogue)

 

Exhibitions visited in April 2018

28 April, Circus: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture, NCCD, Sleaford

28 April, Unseen, NCCD, Sleaford

21 April, Bartolome Murillo, National Gallery, London

21 April, Edgar Degas, National Gallery, London

21 April, Tacita Dean: Still Life, National Gallery, London

21 April, Michael Rakowitz, Forth Plinth, London

21 April, Christian Boltanski, Marian Goodman, London

21 April, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sadie Coles HQ, London

21 April, Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London

21 April, Lee Ufan, Serpentine Gallery, London

21 April, Ian Cheng, Serpentine Gallery, London

21 April, Sondra Perry, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

21 April, Manuel Espinosa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

21 April, Ilona Kesseru, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

21 April, Matthew Day Jackson, Hauser & Wirth, London

21 April, Lorna Simpson, Hauser & Wirth, London

21 April, Wim Wenders, Blain Southern,London

21 April, Gabriella Boyd, Blain Southern, London

21 April, Recent Acquisitions, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Joan Jonas, Tate Modern,  London

21 April, Pablo Picasso, Tate Modern, London

21 April, Adapt to Survive, Heni Project Space, London

21 April, Andreas Gursky, Hayward Gallery, London

20 April, Documents Alternatives, BSAD Gallery, Bath

19 April, Rie Nakajima, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

19 April, Langlands & Bell, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

12 April, Machines Will Watch Us Die, Holden Gallery, Manchester

11 April, Exhibition Untitled, Project Space Plus, Lincoln

6 April, Gabriele Di Matteo, Handel St Projects, London

6 April, Leonor Atunes, Whitechapel Gallery,London

6 April, Art Capital, Whitechapel Gallery,London

6 April, Mark Dion, Whitechapel Gallery, London

6 April, Invisible Cities, Waddington Custot, London

6 April, Andrzej Wroblewski, David Zwirner, London

6 April, Runtime Error, Paul Coulon, London

6 April, Paulo Bruscky, Richard Saltoun, London

6 April, Fred Wilson, Pace, London

6 April, Richard Serra, Gagosian, London

6 April, Michelangelo Pisteletto,  London

6 April, Roy Newell, Simon Lee, London

6 April, Jan Frank, Nahmad Projects,  London

6 April, Jonna Kina, Beaconsfield, London

6 April, John Copeland, Newport St Gallery, London

6 April, Rachel Howard, Newport St Gallery, London

6 April, Myra Greene, Corvi Mora, London

6 April, David Musgrave, Greengassi, London

4 April, Chiharu Shiota, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, In My Shoes, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Simon Armitage, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Revolt and Revolutions, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Alfredo Jaar, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton

4 April, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, Hepworth, Wakefield

4 April, School Prints, Hepworth, Wakefield

4 April, Serena Korda, Hepworth, Wakefield

4 April, Anthony McCall, Hepworth, Wakefield

 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28 May – reading and note taking for PhD

1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 May – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art 

2 May – Skype planning meeting with other people on Sidney Nolan trust PhD residency

4, 18, 23 May – Painting days

5 May – made a new live aphantasia piece to DJs playing at Nebula music festival

6 May – Bummock days with Danica Maier, preparing and editing text for Lace Archive publication

10, 17 May – training workshop for PhD

11 May – delivery of equipment and software to help me with dyslexia

11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19 – worked on ‘Obstract’ article revisions with Steve Dutton for RUUKKU journal

14 May – Had tuition in how to use Dragon and Read and Write software

16 May – went to British Library Digital Lab workshop at University of Lincoln

17 May – carried up loads of wood and boards for General Practice Project Space

19, 20, 21 May – Worked on journal article for Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture with Danica Maier

21 May – Submitted revised ‘Obstract’ article to RUUKKU journal

23/24 – set up, rehearsals and performance of Postman Time at the Blue Room, which I instigated

25 May – My Birthday and BA Fine Art degree show at Lincoln

31 May – Met with Joy Sleeman before her lecture

 

Exhibitions visited in May 2018

 

25 May, Illustration degree show, University of Lincoln

25 May, Proximity, University of Lincoln

25 May, Insert Art Here, University of Lincoln

24 may, Postman Time, Blue Rooms, Lincoln

23 May, 32 degrees, University of Lincoln

 

1 June – Hosted and spoke at CVAN EM Document event at University of Lincoln

1, 21 June – Dyslexia software training

1 June – Opening of Project Space at General Practice

2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18,19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 June – reading and note taking for PhD

3 June – Looked through first draft of Bummock: The Lace Archive catalogue with Danica Maier

4 June – External examining at Anglia Ruskin University

5, 6, 11, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21 June – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art 

4 June – meeting with Mansions of the Future for future planning

5 June – Met with John Cairns form ACE about link ups to students

7 June – Interviewed by Paula Serafini from CAMEO as part of Document project

7 June – Worked up Confirmation of studies form and sent to supervisors

7 June – Submitted funding bid to Leverhulme for Bummock

7 June – Submitted Journal article for Bummock to Textile: the journal of Cloth and Culture

8 June - spoke at CVAN EM Document event at NN Contemporary in Northampton with other document artists and Gordon Dalton

11, 22 June – Coaching session with Kate Buckley

11 June – Painting days

11 June – tried out Google Tilt Brush with Patrick Dickinson from University of Lincoln

12, 13 June– External examining at Hereford College of Arts

13 June – Asked to deliver an oratory for Sir John and Lady Frances Sorrell for an honoury doctorate at Graduation at University of Lincoln

14 June – PhD Supervisory meeting with Catherine George and Steve Klee

15 June – Visit to Tennyson Research centre with Danica Maier and Sarah Bennett

15 June - Found out I have been awarded a Teaching Excellence Award and a 2018 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Teaching at University of Lincoln

16 June – Bummock planning day and Lace Archive catalogue proofing with Danica Maier

18 June – try out with Stewart Collinson about possible collaborative working together

18, 19 June – External examining at Anglia Ruskin University

23 June- Invigilated exhibition at General Practice

25-30 June – PhD practice based Research Residency at Sidney Nolan Trust

 

Exhibitions visited in June 2018

29 June, Practice and Research in Action, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

26 June, Sidney Nolan, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

20 June, Mountain of Tongues, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Harry Martins, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Studio Artists Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

20 June, Dohm Shop, Nottingham  Contemporary

20 June, Linder: House of Fame, Nottingham  Contemporary

20 June, Thom Trojanowski, Trade Gallery, Nottingham 

20 June, Cindie Cheung, TG, Nottingham

20 June, Beth Collar, Primary, Nottingham

19 June, Antony Gormley, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

13 June, General Public, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

13 June, Mixrice, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

13 June, Inherited Purposes, Grand Union, Birmingham

12 June, Synthesis, Hereford College of Arts

9 June,  Mandy Lee Jandrell, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

9 June,  Daniel Rapley, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

5 June, Natasha Monfared, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

1 June, Bradley Oliver-White, General Practice, Lincoln

 

 

 

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31  July – reading and note taking for PhD

2, 3, 9, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 July – Worked at University of Lincoln doing research, admin, meetings and teaching and running MA Fine Art 

4 July – PhD Supervisory meeting with Catherine George and Steve Klee

5 July – Dyslexia software training 

5, 18, 30 July – meeting with Stewart Collinson about collaborative working together

5 July – First Approaching Affective Zero meeting at Mansions of the Future

6 July – Met with other artists and spoke at CVAN EM Document event at Phoenix, 

9-13 July – Summer lodge residency for Bummock project with Danica Maier and Sarah Bennett and worked on Global Heritage grant

13 July – Attended evening curated by Sally Plowman and Nia Fekri at Wellingore Methodist Chapel

14, 15 July – Worked on and submitted Global Heritage grant for Bummock project with Danica Maier

14 July – attended Radical Buildings event at Mansions of the Future

17 July – Interview for Principle Lecturer in Professional Practice at University of Lincoln

19, 26 July – Painting day in General Practice studios

25 July – Confirmation of Studies panel for my PhD

30 July – Meeting about Approaching Affective Zero event at Mansions of the Future
31 July - Found out did not get Global Heritage grant

 

Exhibitions visited in July 2018

28 July, Impossible City, The Collection, Lincoln

23 July, Impossible City, General Practice, Lincoln

12th July, Nia Fekri, Broadcaster, Wellingore

10th July, Nia Fekri, Broadcaster, Waddington

5 July, Miriam Bean, Phoenix, Leicester

5 July, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Two Queens, Leicester

5 July, Alison Carpenter Hughes, Gajiko Project Space, Leicester