Plate making has begun – engraving perspex with images of T-cells.

Gene Expression: A Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the role of the thymus in autoimmune diseases, interpreted through video-art and prints.

  Evolving from my ‘St Giles’ video shown in St Petersburg recently has been a new series of paintings and prints. In a new series of paintings I have taken the octagonal motif of the video (distorted lights on a […]

A few months ago I received what I thought was a spam email inviting me to show in St Petersburg, it all sounded very dodgy (let alone the title: ‘English Breakfast’) and too good to be true: all travel expenses […]

I had confirmation today that my video installation idea for the show in St Petersburg will receive funding – really great news, but now a lot of work to make it a reality. I plan to project a series of […]

I’ve been busy recently, completing the new series on aluminium in my studio at Magdalen Road, printmaking at Oxford Printmakers, preparing some new videos for a show in St Petersburg and completing some large paintings for a show at the […]

Having a studio away from my home has meant that amidst the chaos in our house (due to moving) I have been able to make new work without distraction. I’ve been painting in my studio, a few new series. It […]

Well, we’ve arrived in Oxford at last. I’m fully installed in my studio and painting, in fact getting ready for an Open Studio event this weekend. It’s great to be settled at last – I’ve now got a profile on […]

Whilst in Oxford last week to move in to my new studio at Magdalen Road Studios I had a very bizarre and thoroughly compelling encounter. I was staying at a friend’s house and whilst there, the proof of “Are There […]

The book is printed and pre-orders posted. In the end I raised enough funds for a limited edition of 50. My main concern was that it looks a quality object and the printers got there in the end. So, thirty […]

Sometimes it’s good to be an outsider, on the outside looking in can inspire some great work. Working here in France as an outsider has pushed my work in directions not possible had I remained in the UK. People telling […]

The book is developing… final design is done, made a video to help promote it on RocketHub and started a Facebook page to keep friends updated with its progress and as a place to hold info that didn’t make it […]

I’ve decided to collate some photos of the Rivesaltes Project in a book, together with extracts form this blog, sort of to draw the project to a close. The images to date have been taken in the broad light of […]

When Sigur Rós announced they wanted video artists to create a video for tracks from their new album Valtari I began to plan my submission. A few years ago I had the pleasure to go to one of their gigs […]

Following an extremely draining few months painstakingly painting four large paintings with a tiny brush, I’m now content with the finished pieces. The general reaction has been positive and now I’m living with them for a while before I start […]

I’ve just read Susan Jones’ Guardian article: Artists are struggling to make ends meet more than ever before. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-ne… I know things are a bit tough for everyone at the moment, which would also impact on the art world, but […]

I received the book ‘Magic Power Presence’ by Iris Books today in the post. It includes a video still taken from my video ‘Path’ and a short description. In their foreword Iris (an artists’ book collective based in Dumfries) writes: […]

Been working on a few prototypes for larger pieces… work in progress. Based on images from my video RSA4. Something I found useful was photographing them during the early stages then altering the luminosity, contrast and colour saturation in photoshop… […]

Collaborations can emerge from the strangest of places. A fellow guitarist who initially I knew only through guitar forums turns out to be a bonafide composer of contemporary ‘sounds’ – studied composition at Dartington where his tutorials were extraordinary: “the […]