Artist & Purveyor Of Obsessive Projects
I have a scar on my left knee. It has been there for more than 30 years. I was about 7 when I fell hard onto a Yorkshire pavement and grit worked its way deep into the graze. I raised such merry hell about having it cleaned, that my mother missed some of the dirt….Continue Reading “Scars And Oysters”
During the summer my occasional art assistant, The Wonderful Z, helped me get my studio up and running. I’d already carved out a studio area in my bedroom but because it hadn’t been organised properly, it had devolved into a dumping ground. So we decluttered, moved furniture around and made sure that I had everything…Continue Reading “Pelt in progress”
You know that thing where you’re so deeply involved in something that you completely miss the obvious? Well, I’ve been helping to organise an art exhibition in the shop windows of Hebden Bridge with the Hebden Bridge WI Rag Market. And I was just wondering how I could get more submissions for it when I…Continue Reading “Art submissions please!”
Burnout. I have it. Burned Out Car by Niklas. Used under a Creative Commons license And at some point in your creative life, you’ve probably had it too. Creative people tend to go like the clappers and then fall down in a heap. My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night;…Continue Reading “Blooming burnout”
A blog. Oh my god, I have a blog? Actually I have two and they’re both languishing in sad and dusty state. Poor blogs. Hey Kirsty, what the hell happened to you? Oh you know, nothing much? My world fell apart & then I fell apart. After a very difficult 18 months, my husband and…Continue Reading “Hello again”
I’ve seen a lot of ‘rah, rah, just try harder’ cheerleading type posts on the internet lately. photo credit: †Jimmy MacDonald †Sometimes ‘just try harder’ is rocking advice: it’s just what you need to hear on the days when a boot up the arse is helpful. Now, I’m all for working hard and…Continue Reading “The Law Of Diminishing Returns”
Hey there, this is just a quickie. I’m off to Brighton tomorrow because the lovely people at Fabrica Gallery kindly invited me to talk at this this event. The theme is artists who are using the internet as something other than documentation. I will, of course, be talking about 365 Jars. There are four artists…Continue Reading “I’m talking in Brighton”
Today I read yet another ‘you should only work when inspired’ comment on a post about creativity. Wah, wah, wah. Cry me a river, newbie. This idea that you should only work when inspired otherwise you make rubbish is a load of bollocking crap. Making rubbish is the important part. Making rubbish is how you…Continue Reading “Please make rubbish!”
Hi there, my lovelies. As regular readers know, I’m currently hugely busy over on 365 Jars and it’s basically eating my life. The project takes at least 2 or 3 hours most days and it’s often far more. When I started, I honestly thought I could work it around the other things that I had…Continue Reading “A few changes”
Woah, there goes another tumbleweed bowling past. photo credit: Claire L. Evans Yes, sorry about the dusty ghost town feel around here of late. There is a very simple reason. 365 Jars has been kicking my ass. Hard. In my enthusiasm for starting a new project – ‘yay, new art project, yay’ – I forgot…Continue Reading “The myth of competence”