Continuing Work

'Ghastly by day, ghostly by night, the rottenest place on the Somme'. Such was how soldiers described High Wood, one

If you visit the Westgate Library in Oxford, and make your way to the second floor, to the centre for

The project I am working on for the Travel and Trauma (Dark Tourism) conference (11-12th April) is now - in

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

Although the present bridge is not that over which the enigmatic stranger crossed, it nonetheless marks the line he travelled

Having completed stitching the 'Missded' 4 canvas, I have now cut it up into tokens.

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On Monday 28th January 1828, a sawyer by the name of Richard Burgess was travelling from Abingdon to Oxford with

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

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

One of the nicest compliments I received during Friday's private view was '...these remind me of Siegfried Sassoon...'. The works

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

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

Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see 'Writing Shadows') and finally, this weekend, I had

I've never before considered myself a fan of Chinese art but there have been times (most recently in the British

The compost heap is some eight feet in circumference and about three feet high at its highest point. It comprises

I’m currently reading an excellent book by Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, entitled ‘Figuring

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

In the Tenth Elegy of Rilke's Duino Elegies we read:'...Our ancestorsworked the mines, up there in the mountain range.Among men,

The images below show the three stages (so far completed) of the first in a series of works entitled "Missded".

I've spent the last day or so working on a new composition which will form part of an art installation

I arrived in Newcastle, NSW yesterday afternoon after a 3 hour train journey from Sydney. The journey itself was pleasant

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

This afternoon I visited the library and found a map of Radley and its surrounds dating from 1811; 17 years

Below are two portraits, each of a soldier about to leave home to fight in what we now know as

Reading Clive James' Poetry Notebook, I find myself a little better prepared to tackle the task of writing a poem;

I worked again tonight on the studies for Heavy Water Sleep, working in landscape elements such as trees and sky.

The same idea as before applied to footage of trees at Belzec. The number of squares used is the same

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