Last night Juteback Poetry Film Festival happened in Colorado, USA. Very pleased to say that Coyote Wedding - produced for the Visible Poetry Project with poet Brittani Sonnenberg, was one of the official selections screened.
Just a tad too far to join in this time.

This possibility under wraps for about 6 months... it's been tantalizing waiting for confirmation. But Robert Good and I are now hugely proud to announce that 'A New Dictionary of Art' is now available in Tate Modern.
Thank you to Alison for spotting it out on display and for capturing the images.

Today I pledged support to this wonderful project. Dyana Gravina is the founder of Procreate Project and she and Paola Lucente are tireless in building up projects and support for mothers in art. I have been lucky to have worked with them previously and exhibited my work at Leftovers last year, as well as being part of their online shop.

This is what they are aiming for: 

"Mother House is the world's first affordable artists studio model with integrated childcare, where children are welcomed into the work space. Help us open the next studio in London!"

Find out more and pledge support at SpaceHive - https://www.spacehive.com/mother-house-studios

www.procreateproject.com

Coming up on Saturday - the first in a series of Video Art Film Club events at Leyden Gallery
​Tickets are available from Eventbrite

The Weimar Poetry Film Award has partnered with the Poetry Festival of Singapore to showcase a selection of the finalists and winners from the competition, including my film 'Blue Flash Flash' which was awarded the Jury Special Mention.

I'm working on a video installation piece for this exhibition happening next week in Reading at the Brock Keep Gallery at OpenHand OpenSpace studios. It is titled 'Time: real & imaginary' and is inspired by the poem of the same name by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Time, Real and Imaginary
AN ALLEGORY
 
ON the wide level of a mountain’s head
  (I knew not where, but ‘twas some faery place),
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails outspread,
Two lovely children run an endless race,
      A sister and a brother!
      This far outstripp’d the other;
  Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
  And looks and listens for the boy behind:
      For he, alas! is blind!
O’er rough and smooth with even step he pass’d,
And knows not whether he be first or last.

and a line by Chris Kraus from her book I Love Dick –
‘Playing the vibrations between here and there and then and now’

(written when Kraus was in her 40s as I am now). Time is as an absolute yet as I have grown older it feels utterly elastic.

This event is the culmination of a series of workshops held over recent weeks by Desperate Artwives. I was part of the third workshop last Saturday led by Katy Howe, and hosted by Platform 1 Gallery at Wandsworth Common Station. Really enjoyable and thoughtfully planned day.

I began the day thinking about control of space and objects in relation to family and the home. This came out later in a series of imaginary floorplans in which I stepped and invited others to step in. The floorplans will be recreated in a larger scale across the floor of the Gallery for the performances and activities that will be happening this Saturday.