It was my wedding anniversary yesterday, my wife and I dined out at midday instead of the evening as it was easier to organise a babysitter. As a special treat I suggested we visited the camp because I needed to […]

I’m not usually one to be shocked by the BBC’s presentation of art – but I’ve just heard the biggest load of drivel on BBC2’s ‘The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’. A discussion led by Andrew Graham-Dixon on the inclusion of […]

I’ve just had the most bizarre experience. Last week I was emailed by a student from St Louis, Missouri, she wanted to interview a printmaker – she had googled print studios in St Louis and came up with the name […]

I’ve been working on a series of line paintings (similar to the aluminium works) for the past two years; based on a video again, but I struggled to find that ineffable something that a painting needs. Well I found it […]

This weekend I’ve been a little disappointed that I couldn’t attend the Video Art Festival in Athens (too short notice), I decided to throw myself headfirst in to making some prints, which I’ve put off for a while. Mid print-run, […]

I have just had two videos accepted for the Athens Video Art Festival: http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/eng/default.a… They only contacted me yesterday, it starts on Thursday, so too short notice for me to attend, which is a shame. Recently I seem to have […]

I woke at 7.00 to create an installation in a friend’s barn as part of the “De Ferme en Ferme” (an open day for organic farms in the area) with three other artists. The sheep were milked at 8.00, so […]

I read this week in a journal on French cultural matters for ex-pats (which I would normally avoid) that the Holocaust in France is a taboo subject, which I now know to be true . . . I’m still trying […]

Ottica TV is going to have a screening tomorrow night at The Better Bankside Centre, 18 Great Guildford Street (corner of Zoar Street behind Tate Modern), London, SE1. Ten minute movie shorts by a selection of international artists. From 6.00 […]

Winter here has been particularly hard, cutting wood and frequently loading the fire has figured highly, but strangely for this time of year has been eclipsed by trips to Berlin and London for exhibitions and screenings and an exciting collaboration […]

Day 12 Drizzle, damp, mud, numb toes..and it’s finished. A horse in the neighbouring field surveys me stoically as I make the finishing touches to the last and shallowest line of soil which I have pressed on top of the […]

Day 13 I awake to a light smattering of snow across my installation and a much thicker coating covering the surrounding hills. I am relieved to have braved the rain and completed the installation yesterday. I enjoy trudging about with […]

Day 14 My short time spent here has been framed by snowfall either side. It seems rather apt that the patch of land on which I am working should begin and end in the same state – an undulating carpet […]

Day 11 Today is our final trip to the quarry to collect red earth. It seems the perpetual shovelling of soil into fluorescent shopping bags has come to an end, a task that neither Jonathan or I are likely to […]

Day 8 Nearly seven trenches dug and filled: I’m getting there! Despite the repetitive nature of my task, it is certainly satisfying to watch the piece grow at such a rate. In contrast, it is quite alarming to watch the […]

Day 6 Today’s drizzle makes the going soggy. My channels are getting much shallower now so whilst I am having to snap the grass roots rather than dig then all up in one clump, the work feel like less of […]

Day 5 Jonathan and I head out in the car on another soil collection trip. The road winds through the rising and falling land in a charmingly indecisive manner. The views of the hills are lovely and we snap photos […]

After a long wait I’ve received the large format negatives that Peter Watkins kindly took for me at the camp on a blustery night last month – we projected my videos stills on to the walls of the huts. The […]

Day 3 The morning frost melts rapidly under a glorious, cloudless sky. My string line has left a paper-thin frost free stencil across the grass which I follow with the spade. Tonight I will set this up purposefully for the […]

Day 2 This morning I have a local herd of sheep for company. They efficiently finish off yesterday’s mowing job by chomping sagely through the grass. I am planning to cut a series of narrow channels into the ground and […]