Continuing Work

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

I've been thinking these last few weeks about a new body of work based on the First World War. For

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

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

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

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

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

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

Second piece showing original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.

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

I received the canvas today and so made a start on priming it.I also walked my new route and made

I worked again last night on the 'Heavy Water Sleep' paintings, continuing to concentrate on the texture. For the first

Since returning to England this morning after my residency in Australia, I've been looking at my notebook, and feel it's

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

Today I walked the second walk in this series and made the following list of additional words:engines roarsirencigarettesightseeing bussunglassesman in

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

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

On 26th April I visited the battlefields and sites of Verdun. The name, like that of the Somme and Ypres,

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

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

The stitched versions of my son’s drawings are objects which, in contrast to the quickly made drawings on which they're

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

A new piece for the exhibition in June.

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

The following is a drawing made by John Malchair showing the causeway of what is now Abingdon Road. The rather

This image was taken almost a year after the end of the First World War, on August 27th 1919 and

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

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