I spend a lot of my time teaching people how to make a piece of work from scratch. I am finding that I know less and less about this the more I make my own work. So it is now a year since I was asked to think about doing something for Heron Corn Mill as part of my residency …
It’s seven years tonight that Dad died and I have been thinking and was surprised the day came upon me late today. I mean I only remembered this evening – the time he actually went. It may mean I am getting over it.
I have been making contacts towards a new work that is inspired by the writing of local Milnthorpe/Arnside novelist Constance Holme.
I have spent the Summer and early Autumn working with a handful of people who are making new work. We spent days at Heron Corn Mill connecting, intertwining, disconnecting and reconnecting and then when it was all over – disconnecting. It is always difficult when something ends, so we are trying to continue in a disconnected way. I am curious …
I am so happy to be back at my Cumbrian outpost. This coming weekend I am joined by a group of creative people who bring their talent and ideas to work on something that requires “not knowing”. It’s a brave state of mind to be in and marks the beginning of several new pieces of work we will create inspired …
It has been tumultuous recently with Brexit, the Labour party machinations and the disturbing power struggles of people who would lead us. I have always been of the socialist persuasion but I wouldn’t call myself very active. However this time I have been compelled to do something because for once I have seen the actions and example of a leader …
I want to tell you about “Tree Fall”. I made this little film almost directly after the clearing up that followed the floods in Cumbria in 2015. It follows the dismemberment of a tree that had fallen into the River Bela that runs through Heron Corn Mill where I work at the moment. I became entranced by the image of …
I am celebrating a return to the mill this June with this little film I made about the maintenance of the mill wheel following the floods in Cumbria earlier this year. Stuart Hobbs (the mill mechanical engineer) and his dad spent many days dismantling, refitting and repainting the water wheel and I documented a bit of it. Towards the end …