BLOOM BOOM all finished.

14 hours later, Lady Garden is complete! Well worth it, am proud of the detail. It will be displayed somewhere in the town from next week.

Neon Hair & Neon Joy

Consuming large quantities of alcohol at birthday parties + UV face-paints + glowsticks = photos of creative drunks. Had a great 30th put my 21st to shame! Next year laser shows perhaps...

'Lady Garden' For G-Moo Gallery's 'Bloom Boom' community project

For my contribution to Ginger Moo's Bloom Boom community Project I've decided to go with hair as my theme. I've included as many different hair colours and types as possible to suggest diversity (of age and ethnic background) in our community and I also want to highlight the importance of hair (mainly for women) in our culture. It is problematic and revered symbolically and groomed and obliterated actually, for seemingly many different reasons. Hair on women is significant based on its quality, quantity and location on the body and we buy into many prejudices whether they are commercially, religiously or sexually rooted. As a feminist I believe women should be able to choose how to present their bodies, since the image of the female body is contentious from all different angles, as Germaine Greer said (and I paraphrase) there is no liberation to be had from flaunting our bodies or covering them up, it's a catch 22 if we think that this where our worth lies. Image is important in any culture and hair plays a part in this, but it is neither the root of our power and worth, nor is hair's meaning trivial, the issues are more tangled than we may ever be able to comb through...

Bodies of Work

(Above image from site - not mine)

Some of my work has been included on the new website Bodies of Work.

"Bodies of Work is a collaborative student project, organised between postgraduates at Cambridge and Sussex, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It forms the second issue of Women and the Arts, a journal published by The Arts Society, Newnham College in December 2009 that marked the 80th anniversary of Virginia Woolf's talk, 'Women and Fiction', which was hosted by The Arts Society in 1928, and its subsequent publication as of A Room of One's Own in 1929."

Have a look around the project's site and also see my Dancers www.bodiesofwork.info

Also another recent piece of design.

Single artwork & gig flyer for the immensely talented and uncategorizable Riz MC visit his myspace page here you won't be disappointed.

Light Show

Live drawing projections onto My Tiger My Timing @ Ginger Moo Gallery's 1st birthday. Twas much fun.

You have to be prepared.

Been having a block at working for a short while, trying to do too much at once. I've been reading about writing and substituting the word writing for painting and it still is completely apt for the most part. The most valuable thing I've found in the book so far is that 'you have to be prepared to [paint] badly'. It's very freeing. So I'm off to do some bad arting, and see where it takes me.