Continuing Work

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

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Another triptych comprising photographs taken on Sunday at Shotover.

Continuing from what I was discussing yesterday (see Humument), I decided to make a start on my own 'Humument' by

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

Following on from the completion of my text map (which I'm thinking of as a map of an individual rather

Finished priming the canvas and then painted a layer of Paynes Grey on top. Over this I'll rub some white

IntroductionIn Wales in 2008 I walked a path along which my great grandfather had walked every day from his home

When one of the ‘tokens’ is put in a frame, it becomes a thing in its own right; a fragment still, but

The image below is the last in a series I've made using both an original World War One postcard and

I've started work on a new series of paintings based on the Heavy Water Sleep work I've been doing over

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

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

I was looking at something recently which made me think of the work I've been exploring around the backdrops used

On what was a beautiful Autumn day, I took a walk to Shotover wood to take some photos of trees.

I remember as a small boy how my Nana would on occasion take me and my older brother to where

Today, my brother Simon and I took a trip down memory lane and visited New Marston First School which had

Whilst on a trip to Paris with Monika, we paid a visit to two cemeteries; one, the cemetery at Montmartre,

I wouldn't really call this a poem, but poem is the best word I can think of to describe what

Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a

On my journey back from Nottingham yesterday, I listened to a podcast of In Our Time about William Wordsworth's The

The backgrounds of these postcards have become of great interest to me in as far as they help elicit a

In a session today on my MA in Social Sculpture, we considered the following three words: Hidden, Ignored, Denied. What

In his excellent book, 'The Past is a Foreign Country', David Lowenthal writes:"Among the Swahili, the deceased who remain alive

On the first day of this month, I travelled to Paris on Eurostar and met my girlfriend Monika at the

Following on from my last post, I've now completed all the tokens along with another piece comprising some of them

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

I have been photographing the same trees - shown above - for almost 18 months now, and what started as

On 28th October 1828, the Marquis of Hastings sailed into Port Jackson after a 4 month journey from Portsmouth, England.

Iris created a treasure hunt for me and Eliot; a trail of post-it notes stuck around the flat, each containing a clue as