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Oct 27, 20212 min

Meditiation on a Doll's House

I have been in something of a creative funk lately; probably brought on by the need to work intensively to meet a gallery deadline. The...

Oct 27, 20213 min

Restoration...

I'm not sure if the title applies to the house or to me - certainly, working on my 40 year-old house is proving somewhat restorative to...

Oct 27, 20211 min

Links to my work and other projects...

For the curious, here are some links to my other artwork and some of my curatorial projects...

Oct 27, 20213 min

Restriction

Recently, I answered a callout on Curatorspace to take part in an art project led by artist Amanda Lynch, in partnership with Clayhill...

Oct 27, 20211 min

Les Petites Folies

These little heads have been sat in my studio since last Autumn, waiting patiently to be finished. And here they are! Each one is press...

Oct 27, 20214 min

My First Doll's House

When I was a child growing up in the 60s and 70s, doll's houses were a familiar sight in everyday culture. But even then, I suspected...

Oct 27, 20212 min

Work in Progress...

Until recent decades the most disappointing aspect of miniaturism was the figures. What you got offered were either stiffly moulded,...

Oct 27, 20217 min

Safe as Houses...? [part 2]

(Read part 1 here) Not a horror story, but still one which evokes a sense of unease and anxiety, is Katherine Mansfield’s short story,...

Oct 27, 20215 min

Safe as Houses...?

A troubling history of the doll's house from a woman's perspective.

Oct 27, 20212 min

How it all started...

Like many artists I found 2020 a rollercoaster year in which periods of despair alternated with brief episodes of frenetic productivity...