Sketchbook at Austin Museum of Art, Texas

My sketchbook, as part of the Sketchbook Project tour leaves Brooklyn, New York, and heads to Austin, Texas, this weekend.  If you are there, pop down. See details of venues below...

March 12, 2011 / 12:00-6:00pm
Austin Museum of Art
823 Congress Ave
Austin, TX


March 13th, 2011 / 12:00-6:00pm
29th St Ballroom at Spider House
2906 Fruth St
Austin, TX

The Sketchbook Project, opens 19th February, Brooklyn Art Library..

One of my sketchbooks is part of the Sketchbook Project Tour, which opens at the Brooklyn Art Library, New York on the 19th February 2011. The exhibition then travels to Portland, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Florida, Austin, San Francisco and finishes in Seattle later in the year. Phew!

Christmas Wishes.....

Apologies for a severe lack of posting for the past few weeks..I have been on the sick list for the past 10days - a bad health record my body had not seen in years! Fingers crossed I am back on the mend now for good.. especially now as I am now officially on Christmas holidays..yeaaayy! We have reached our Christmas location in Cheshire, and are heading to Scotland after for Hogmanay.

We did, however manage to put up our Christmas Tree with decorations I made back in early November, at least I was organised with these! Made from my fave air drying clay, I painted these or used decoupage and strung with ribbon or binding.

It has been a busy and productive year, highlights have definitely included completing the Communitas Digitas installation at Nunhead Open, Fab Lab Challenge as part of the FutureEverything Conference and engaging with drawing to produce a new body of work.

On a personal level, special memories have been a birthday holiday to Prague, a holiday to the Black Isle and Summer Isles before and after my sisters wedding, which brought back some happy childhood memories and created new ones.

January 2011 already looks set to be a busy one.  I am giving a talk on the 8th January at the Artists Practice Day at Camden Arts Centre about my own practice, which I am looking forward to, and a little nervous too.  The Artists Practice Day, is a by invitation only crit event for emerging artists.  I have attended before, but only as a dicussion participant, so it is my first time holding the floor.  I also am exhibiting a drawing in the Members Show at Embassy, and completing drawings to be sent to NY for the Sketchbook Tour which begins in early 2011.  I will also be getting on with ongoing projects, applying for funding for the China Residency.....

Wishing you the very for the festive period....and relax...

The Sketchbook Project, February - June 2011

I am participating in the Sketchbook Project,  which is an open project and exhibition run by the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, New York City.  Each participant produces a sketchbook within a certain size that tours the following locations:

Brooklyn Art Library, New York, February 19th - February 27th 2011
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, March 12th, 2011
Space Gallery, Portland, ME, March 30th - April 2nd 2011
The Granite Room, Atlanta, April 8-9th 2011
Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, WA, June 10th - 11th 2011
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, June 18th 2011

The multitude of sketchbooks will be available to view online once all submissions have been recieved in early January 2011.  The ArtHouse Co-op are still accepting participants. 

Although, in the early stages of the sketchbook, it is an interesting and challenging exercise as in one sense the sketchbook becomes the 'work'.  The sketchbook is traditionally considered as a vehicle for prepatory work, which is often indoctrinated into you within art education.  As a practicing artist, I rarely, or never, fill a sketchbook.  Working on bits and peices of paper, beginnings of some sketchbooks and middle pages of another notebook. 

Some of the early pages I have been working on: