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Grinning near some cats
GoMA commissioned the always delightful Alan Dimmick to take some snaps of me. Here they are… I was going for Nick Drake with kittens, like a 1990/2020 mashup.
Read More8×6 Launch of Anderson Gallery, Carpenter’s Wharf
Thanks to Alexander James Pollard for inviting me to exhibit at the launch of Anderson Gallery, Carpenter’s Wharf, London alongside a vast guest list which includes Phyllida Barlow and Keith Tyson. Thanks too to fellow exhibitor Laura Yuile who organised essential paraphernalia – we last showed together at The Influencing Machine, nGbK, Berlin in 2019.…
Read MoreA Thing What I Wrote (2020)
Delivered to the University of Cumbria Research Office, Lancaster in a suitcase at 3.30pm on Thursday 27th February 2020. Thankfully then Professor Robert Williams and family took me out for a pint. Now I have no idea what to do with myself… The Peter & nou Handbook: A Field Guide to a Speculative Practice (So…
Read MoreThe Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Alert – Arwen Curry’s doc on Ursula is on BBC4 and then iplayer at 22.00 this Sunday (17th Nov.)
Read MoreIt’s November 2019…finally!
And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are: Stephen Collin’s strip for the Guardian last week – see it here and BBC3’s The Essay 2019: The Year of Blade Runner – particularly Episode 2, Frances Morgan’s Sounds of the Future Past. And here’s a…
Read MoreThe BR2049 – Baseline Test
I wish this was in the shops now… Until then, you can achieve a similar effect by asking a friend to shout Nabokov at you through the door of an airport toilet.
Read More6 Key artefacts in Blade Runner 2049
Consummate consumer (or at least, consummate oogler) of screen-used and associated product that I remain, this bonny article highlights Blade Runner 2049’s very deliberate item choices… Can’t believe I’ve not visited Film and Furniture before now. Got there via a frantic search for a vintage blanket which looked like The Shining carpet which I slept under…
Read MoreThe Last Bohemians
Everyone! Bend your ears around hilarious and revealing interviews with brilliant women with The Last Bohemians podcast. Pauline Black! Cosey Fanni Tutti! Bonnie Greer! Break-out star Molly Parkin (‘I wake up. Have sex. With myself.’)
Read MoreDomestic Bliss – GoMA, Glasgow
Pop into Domestic Bliss up in Gallery 4 of GoMA when you are passing. Katie Bruce’s exhibition makes the space seem like new. My work, based on the life of Carson McCullers and from my solo show They are the We of Me (GoMA, 2006) gets to hang out with works by Jacqueline Donachie and…
Read MoreThe Isle of the Dead: The Jumper
Mentioned in Ballard’s The Crystal World and strongly hinted at in Nabokov’s Despair, I’ve always loved Arnold Böcklin’s The Isle of the Dead. Here’s the Basil version… And now I have the jumper. I am the Isle of the Dead – a veritable picture of goth in mohair-blend by Coach. I’ve not loved an item of clothing…
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