Can art be too clever? It’s such a tired thing to say “I don’t know much about art but I know what I like”. In fact as one studies it more and
Read More...Seeing not Looking
The great abstract/modernist purges of the mid century period are over, it’s battles won, abstract art everywhere and the art world itself democratised by that least human thing of all, technology. Over
Read More...Welcome to the intelligent 20s, or why Art Teaching isn’t ready for the new era
We are at the turn of a decade, a point in the calendar that people use to celebrate and reflect. It helps us regulate our lives by referring to waypoints in that
Read More...2019 in review
2019 started at a very low point. Having just survived 2018 I resolved to keep working as much as I could and my art and music have taken a turn upwards. In
Read More...CHRISTMAS MADNESS
I had a rush of blood to the head and recorded a Christmas single called PsychedeliChristmas Electronicals. It uses the famous theme, Lieutenant Kije by Prokofiev but goes off the rails a
Read More...IKEA vs THE ROBO-ARTISTS
Imagine going to IKEA to buy furniture. You’re redecorating your living space and you want new furniture. On the way out you see “art” and you decide that a few nice pictures
Read More...Art VS. Meaning
One of the hardest things about making highly personal art is that it hurts when others criticise it. When it’s genuinely your heart and soul and deep deep feelings out there on
Read More...Real virtual art
I have recently had a conversation about my work being both computational and digital, and how difficult it is to sell virtual work. The main thrust being that computational and digital work
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