Continuing Work

On the bus into work this morning I read the following in Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places.' "Woods and forests

As part of a future project I have been loaned two fragments of mediaeval pottery by the Museum resource Centre

Following his conviction at the Berkshire Assizes on 15th April 1828, Stephen Hedges was sent to Portsmouth to serve time

I'd never been to the National Archives and had only ever seen it on TV, on Who Do You Think

Reading through various documents regarding the period in Oxford after the Black Death, it's clear there were many vacant buildings

I discovered Stephen Hedges about a year ago whilst researching my great-great-great-grandfather Richard Hedges (1808-1882). The two of them were

In his book, Trees - Woodlands and Western Civilization, archaeologist Richard Hayman writes:"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters

Carrying on with the work I did in Australia, I've spent the last couple of days videoing the canvas 'sail'

What interests me about the video footage from the archaeological dig at Belzec (1999) is the sense of colour and

I've been working on a series of drawings for a while now, the development of which can be seen in

Whilst looking through some old research I did a few years ago, I came across the drawing reproduced below of

Why are Australian 50 cent pieces the size of dinner plates and 20 cent pieces like saucers? Especially when 2

During Walk No.4 I discovered a sign entitled 'Undermined' about the coal industry in Newcastle. Given the importance of coal

With the work I've been doing on trees at the sites of death camps in Poland, I found the following

On the trail of my ancestor Stephen Hedges (my great, great, great, great uncle) I wanted to walk the route

This afternoon I've been working on a new approach to my Heavy Water Sleep series. I've always loved the aesthetic

Family Tree (Travel)Mountain - DistanceCoal mines (chalk work?)Tailor - suitDreamcatcherBroken HayesBlackboard - Auschwitz Drawings (graphite/chalk) coal?TwinnedShoe MountainDeckchairsTour StoriesJohn Gwynn's survey

“Frontiers are lines. Millions of men are dead because of these lines.” Georges PerecThe name Somme is, in the minds

I've always found it amazing, when, on a programme like Time Team, an apparently empty field is shown to have

Through my research on World War I, I've accumulated a large amount of data - postcards, quotes, maps, texts, photographs,

Below is a typical, early 20th century studio portrait. The subject - a boy - sits on a prop. Behind

I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his

I was thinking about the post World War I landscape and how the years after 1918 saw a surge in

Following on from my last entry I've been wondering whether an empathetic link between ourselves and those who fought and

Remarkable evidence of those who lived in Oxford around the time the notice appeared in Jackson's Oxford Journal can be

I am not, at least as far as I’m aware, a sculptor, but I think that what I’m striving to

It was in the small square, at southern end of Kondylaki Street, where we met two brothers, coaxing as best

Whilst on my walk today, I took some time to explore the concrete ruins of what I discovered was the

Every now and then when I'm working on something - a drawing, video, piece of writing - I find a

I decided to do a walk today, one which I would record in single words or very short phrases. I