Thursday, 10 April 2014

A thorough explanation

Sometimes I discover an artist and research them and get really conceptually and quite emotionally involved in them and their artwork. Sometimes their work and thoughts even reflect almost exactly what I've been thinking and making, and occasionally they say the odd sentence that perfectly says what I think, but couldn't get out in words yet. Donald Judd and Andrea Zittel are two such artists who I feel are on the same mission (if you will!) as me. So in light of their thoughts and mine, I wrote this wee text-piece to try and sum my work up.

Also, to my delight, Andrea Zittel has a show in London at the moment at Sadie Coles gallery in And here it is...




Thursday, 3 April 2014

My dress and Hannah

So my Ma works in an indie bookshop, and last week one of my favourite contemporary authors, Hannah Kent, went in to do a reading and signing for the paperback launch of her book Burial Rites. That's her on the left. And the two on the right work in Mama's shop. The dress is the one I made and is far too big for the lady who is wearing it, but never mind! But how exciting!
And the next day I met Hannah at a book club in Dalston and we talked about Adelaide in Australia - where she is from and where I lived in 2009. Yay!