- A ghetto of words
I have a confession - I firmly believe that a large part of my recent lack of blogging activity is down not to being too busy to write, but too busy to read.
This isn’t to say I haven’t been reading at all - that’s a habit I couldn’t break if I tried - but […]
- The Fisher King & Other Mythologies at Gallery on 4
After a crunch-tastic holiday season and some fantastic high-speed framing from the good people at Earls Court Gallery (seriously Bob, I owe you one), I’m pleased to report that The Fisher King & Other Mythologies is now installed for your viewing pleasure at the Hamilton Public Library’s Gallery on 4. After the past several years […]
- Ghosts of exhibitions past and future
I’ve found lately that the challenge of maintaining this blog lately is not so much in the demands of a full-time occupation - rather, it’s in balancing that job with exhibition commitments inherited from my more flexible freelance days. When combined in recent months, the studio and the office achieved a critical mass that left […]
- ‘A Vanishing of Bees’ at upArt Contemporary Art Fair
Obviously, blogging has not happened around here with anything like my old-time regularity, but at least this time I’m packing a double-barrelled shotgun’s worth of excuses. In addition to the usual demands of the day (and often night) job, I have been investing all free time possible in the studio preparing for my installation at […]
- Where art goes once it is born
I’ve been taxing my memory and the internet’s broad-yet-dubious selection of Vincent van Gogh images to prepare a post on Dr. Alison McQueen’s lecture last week for the Friends of Art History at McMaster, but in the meantime I’ve been more inclined to use my rare downtime for reading, especially now that I’ve come into […]
- ‘Age of Enlightenment’ now open at Kitchener’s Rotunda Gallery
The unfortunate case of the sniffles that plagued my Christmas and New Year’s Eve eased off just enough to make today’s task of installing my exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery manageable. In fact, between the pleasant drive through seldom-seen rural patches of southwestern Ontario and a hang that went as smooth as butter, I was […]
- Open Studio this Friday during Art Crawl
Though I’ve been happily occupying a studio space on James Street North since this past June, I haven’t done the done thing during Art Crawls and opened my door to the public. Part of that has been due to my preference for walking and reviewing the street’s other exhibitors for the benefit of this here […]
- Installation View: Leeds College of Art
In retrospect, I realize that my expectations of being able to blog with any regularity while traveling and installing an exhibition were a bit on the ambitious side. With the stress of Leeds and the lazy weekend hangover of Derbyshire left behind in favour of an uncharacteristically sunshiny day in Liverpool, I’m now better placed […]
- New works added to Visual Portfolio
While the work itself remains in transit limbo from Hamilton to Leeds, I’ve taken a moment to add the drawings that will be featured in my exhibition at the Leeds College of Art & Design to the Visual Portfolio portion of this website.
The Delights of Porcelain, from Age of Enlightenment, 2009-2010. Watercolour pencil on book […]
- And we’re back
As August has drawn to a close, so too has my studio-focused hiatus from this blog. While there are still preparations to be made for my show at the end of the month, I will otherwise be returning to my usual artist-writer duality now that September has kicked off the start of yet another art […]
