#WW1

Feb 21, 2017
2 min

An enticement even, to lure you in.

I am about to embark on a new project. It’s exciting. It’s a little scary. It’s funded by Arts Council England – yay, and I will be...

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Jul 20, 2016
1 min

She never mentions tea again

This week I have been concentrating on making work for the Art Language Location Festival, taking place in Cambridge in October. My work,...

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Mar 7, 2016
3 min

This may seem a strange request, but I am an artist and…..

Over the years I have come to realise that a common thread that runs through my work is contrast, contradiction and perhaps the more...

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Jan 19, 2016
2 min

Theatre of War: Instructions from the War Office

I began thinking about this term – Theatre of War – when I first transcribed Clarice’s diary. I have always been quite sure that Clarice...

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Oct 16, 2015
1 min

Heads or Tails?

Over the past couple of months I have been inviting people to come along to my exhibitions and play a game of Heads or Tails. The outcome...

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Sep 22, 2015
1 min

Peonies and Pelargoniums?

Following on from a conversation that began on Saturday, my friend, Jackie Russell and I have been bouncing an image back and forth via...

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Aug 30, 2015
2 min

Backlogs or backfilling?

I seem to be working on 3 different bodies of work at the moment and although they appear to be very different, using different...

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Sep 23, 2014
3 min

Frayed ends

With less than a week to go to the third Resting Place event, a project that I began back in 2012 my thoughts have been very much...

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Aug 4, 2014
2 min

The last hankie

First I must warn all who read this – it is possibly the first of two posts today. There seems to be a lot to say and one just may not be...

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Mar 25, 2014
3 min

Clarice’s journey begins

Sunday 23rd March saw the first Resting Place live performance event in Ellington Park, Ramsgate. This was both the beginning and the...

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Mar 4, 2014
2 min

A recent discovery

Amongst Clarice’s archive there are many photographs, obviously taken in France during WW1 but unfortunately with no record as to exactly...

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Dec 6, 2013
2 min

Resting Place: the planning continues

I have been fairly silent about Resting Place lately but now that Silent Cacophony and The Silence of Knitting are finished the planning...

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Nov 26, 2013
3 min

Reflections on Silence of Knitting

Two weeks have now passed since The Silence of Knitting and I have been putting off writing my thoughts about the event. Putting it off...

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Nov 14, 2013
1 min

The Silence of Knitting: Newark

The Silence of Knitting Mon 11th Nov 11am Galerie Newark Nottinghamshire Lace placed at the site of Ransome and Marles munitions factory...

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Nov 14, 2013
2 min

The Silence of Knitting: Ticehurst

The Silence of Knitting Mon 11th Nov 11am A shelter Ticehurst East Sussex Performed by Sharon Hall Shipp Photographs and film by Richard...

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Nov 6, 2013
2 min

The Silence of Knitting part 4

On Mon 11th Nov at 11am people will be joining together in a common task, that of knitting in silence a piece of shamrock lace using...

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Oct 30, 2013
2 min

The Silence of Knitting

A few months ago I was invited to take part in a project called Silent Cacophony. This project, conceived and organised by Platform-7...

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Aug 2, 2013
1 min

It’s a YES from the Arts Council

The application to ACE was a very stressful and time-consuming process and one that would not have been made possible without the...

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Jul 2, 2013
2 min

The Book of Remembrance

Resting Place, as those who follow my blog will know, was conceived from a visit to Wimereux War Graves Cemetery in 2011. It was there...

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Mar 19, 2013
3 min

Resting Place; working in collaboration

Following on from Resting Place being launched at LPT last Nov there has been lots of activity behind the scenes to develop the project...

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