About

Thoughts are such fluid and fleeting things. They bubble up, slide over one another, and get carried along by conceptual currents. I see image-making as a kind of embodied thinking – a way to pin down, or at least slow down, some of those thoughts and make sense of them. And writing is another way of doing that.

There’s also a social dimension because the arts play a fundamental role in connecting people and shaping our collective narratives. So, while I could keep my musings to myself in a personal journal, by publishing them in this blog I hope to get others thinking, to spark inspiration and open discussions. It also provides another route into my artwork by offering some insight into the ideas enmeshed within my works.

‘Art’ has become a notoriously baggy term, encompassing just about anything, it seems, from handprints to photographs, urinals to messy beds. My blog posts are similarly varied in their subject matter, though underpinned by a connection to art. Which is to say, they’re a medley of observations united under a vague term – so, plenty of scope to write about anything!