Insights & Studio Writing
Insight 23: My Method Is, Like My Materials, Mixed
My mixed-media practice does not follow one reliable route from idea to object. Parked materials, decades of technical knowledge, practical motivation, chance invitations and a strong purpose enter each work...
Insight 23: My Method Is, Like My Materials, Mixed
My mixed-media practice does not follow one reliable route from idea to object. Parked materials, decades of technical knowledge, practical motivation, chance invitations and a strong purpose enter each work...
Insight 22: Permission to use Tension
My mentors graphic suggestion of a jellyfish entangling a dead seagull was never an artwork I intended to make. What I carried home was the purpose beneath it: permission to...
Insight 22: Permission to use Tension
My mentors graphic suggestion of a jellyfish entangling a dead seagull was never an artwork I intended to make. What I carried home was the purpose beneath it: permission to...
Insight 21: An Ever-moving Research Question
I called my research question locked several times, even though the wording kept changing. Each temporary lock gave me a stable boundary within which to research and make, while leaving...
Insight 21: An Ever-moving Research Question
I called my research question locked several times, even though the wording kept changing. Each temporary lock gave me a stable boundary within which to research and make, while leaving...
Insight 20: The benefits of preparing for an MFA
I began preparing for an MFA before knowing whether I would ever start one. Documenting the evolution of Fragile Futures, learning how to shape a research question and testing the...
Insight 20: The benefits of preparing for an MFA
I began preparing for an MFA before knowing whether I would ever start one. Documenting the evolution of Fragile Futures, learning how to shape a research question and testing the...
Insight 19: It Took Forever to Describe My Work
I kept rewriting my artist statement because the practice underneath it was changing. Looking across descriptions that moved from wildlife fantasy to mixed-media sculpture, behaviour change and quiet activism revealed...
Insight 19: It Took Forever to Describe My Work
I kept rewriting my artist statement because the practice underneath it was changing. Looking across descriptions that moved from wildlife fantasy to mixed-media sculpture, behaviour change and quiet activism revealed...
Insight 18: The Exhibition Ideas I Threw Away
Before Fragile Futures became a three-zone exhibition, I had enough ideas for several exhibitions. Looking back the ideas I left behind revealed that some were wrong for the encounter, while...
Insight 18: The Exhibition Ideas I Threw Away
Before Fragile Futures became a three-zone exhibition, I had enough ideas for several exhibitions. Looking back the ideas I left behind revealed that some were wrong for the encounter, while...