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Cromer; a creative weekend
With following my partner @create.atwill up to Cromer to assist him hang his pop up shop for the weekend, I took the opportunity to spend some time on the beach and make some additions to a few series of recent works which were duly documented. I returned a couple of days later to complete more…
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1000 Postcards
During the Christmas break in the lead up to 2025 I was considering a few ideas that would allow for creative practice to become a daily occurrence. With working full time, having the time and energy on a daily basis can at times be a big ask, other days not so much. One of the…
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Inspiring Connections
Ive been thinking recently about my creative journey through this decade so far. Back in 2020, During the pandemic I was taking loads of landscape photos on my daily lockdown walks, photos some six years later I have returned to working with. Ive been archiving photo’s of my coastal visits and have also returned to…
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That Which Binds Us
While spending time at BodyLand Studios recently I was able to make a start on a piece of work that has been on my mind for a while. With recent elections I have heard many voices express that their vote does not count, that their voice is not heard. I feel very strongly that apathy…
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Submission Fees
Ive recently seen lots of posts on Instagram that have been making comment about submission fees to gallery exhibitions and other opportunities for artists. It’s apparent that a number of gallery opportunities that charge a submission fee exist to make money from artists, rather than support them through exhibition exposure. Fees that come upon acceptance…
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Hope Maps
The ‘Hope Maps’ series have been living as an idea in a notes app on my phone for some while now. The idea followed carving a rubber stamp and then considering how it could be used to express my feelings about the recent political landscape in Suffolk. I have already made a piece of performance…
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My art, my rules
Ive long enjoyed making artworks, from physical objects to producing simple drawings, I find pleasure in creating things that allow me to think about and process the world around me and find making a refuge from a world that can at times be very full on and demanding. While working as a maker/artist in my…
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Converge
Following an online conversation, I decided that I would spend some time writing a full proposal for a performance work that I have been thinking about for some time. I spent a morning hidden away in a back room of a gallery writing my proposal for a piece of work for the Converge event at…
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Map Stamping at BodyLand Studios
It was an unexpected joy to be invited along to BodyLand Studios to have some of my work available for visitors to see and to chat to visitors about my work on one of their recent open mornings. I arrived and helped to open up and then set up my work at the front of…
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BodyLand Studio opening
Its not the first time I have been to BodyLand Studio, but it was the first time seeing it with its large frontage open and it bustling with art, people and activity. BodyLand Studio is still in its infancy, still working out its shape, but it has to be said it is putting in the…
