October 19th, 2010

I have been invited by The Park Gallery to exhibit a selection of my work at the up and coming Winter Warmth exhibition which will take place in The Park Gallery’s new location on the ground floor of Callendar House in Falkirk. Winter Warmth is now in it’s 6th year and has built up a reputation for showcasing original, high quality art and design work from a wealth of artists, designers and craft makers in Scotland and the UK. I’m lucky to be one of this years 25 artists.

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September 10th, 2010

I’m about to book a place on a jewellery workshop [I hope there are still places available] happening at St Andrews Museum on Saturday 25th September run by jewellers Jane Gowans and Hannah Livingston. It’s come about because of the Causing Chaos exhibition at the museum curated by artist Claire Barclay for Fife Contemporary Art & Craft. The exhibition looks at “how art objects may reference functional things but subvert function through ambiguity of use and meaning” and features the jewellery and metalwork of Shari Pearce.

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September 3rd, 2010

Yesterday I finished work at midday and went on a bit of a round trip of Fife. If I’m going somewhere I always try and get a lot crammed into the trip so I get the most for my money/time. So when I spotted a folding table on Freecycle recently (in St Andrews), I thought I could go an pick that up at the same time as popping into the Town Hall so see the Scrap Exchange exhibition.

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August 31st, 2010

By Friday I was quite ill. I’d caught a cold at some point during the week and was trying to ignore the fact that I had a sore throat and runny nose and a bit of a cough, but by Friday morning I had no energy left. I got up and had a shower and then curled up on the sofa and refused to move. We had a planned an early start as we wanted to walk to the Serpentine Gallery and then go to the Saatchi Gallery too, but my body refused to move.

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August 30th, 2010

We went our separate ways this morning as I wanted to hunt round Spitalfields Market for treasures and Colin wanted to head back to Tate Modern. We decided to meet up after lunch outside the Hunterian Museum.

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August 27th, 2010

Wednesday, we went along to the Tate Modern to see a couple of exhibitions, namely “Exposed – Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera” and “Francis Alÿs – A Story of Deception” – both worth going to see. I only knew of one work by Francis Alÿs but I’d never seen it, so this exhibition was a great surprise to me, whereas the Exposed exhibition simply brought together a lot of work I’d already seen before but within separate exhibitions, books and documentaries.

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August 27th, 2010

On the Tuesday we immersed ourselves in exhibitions again and headed first for the British Library for the map exhibition entitled ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art’ which brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day.

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August 27th, 2010

We’ve been wanting to go back to the Natural History Museum since we saw the recent series on the TV. We were both taken to the NHM when we were kids and have never been back since. Lots of fond memories of the Blue Whale and the dinosaurs and I have a very clear memory of a volcano simulator. We couldn’t wait to get there and start exploring.

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