February 2010

• My animation 'An Urban Abstraction' has been chosen for the 'Contemporary Video Art from The Projection Gallery.com Collection' and will be shown by BBC Big Screens London in the period up to the end of 2010. It's a group showreel compiled for the Local Shorts programme to be shown on the large outdoor public screens at Walthamstow and Woolwich and other potential BBC events. The selection was made with an emphasis on accomplished artists from the UK and overseas whose work is appropriate for the public arena.
• I was commissioned by Artists & Illustrators Magazine, a practical advice arts publication, to write a three-part introduction series on using Photoshop within a visual fine art practice. The articles are published in the February, March, and April 2010 issues available throughout the UK.

January 2010

• A digital wet transfer uses pigment based inks, a flat feed inkjet printer, and a pre-coat or digital ground. It is a technique for transferring by hand an inkjet image onto an absorbent surface such as paper, canvas, or plaster. This process gives a softer, slightly broken texture to the image and broadens the types and sizes of surfaces an artist can use. I use inkjet wet transfers throughout my work as it's perfect for re-creating the decomposed urban surface and can be easily combined with other media. For more information on the process read my article 'Wet wet wet' published in the Winter 2009 edition of Printmaking Today, Vol 18, No 4.

December 2009

• Reading based artist and writer Jennifer Leach has written a very insightful and judicious review of my current solo show 'Observations on a Town' which you can read on AN Interface Reviews Unedited. Jennifer has been writing a blog on AN since September about her main work Crow!.
• The recent Experimental Digital Print weekend workshop at the Digital Media Centre was a great success. Artists came from across the south of England to explore creative ways to print or transfer digital images onto a range of surfaces. To see photos of the digital wet transfer process and some of the works created by the artists visit the Digital Media SHP Flickr page.

November 2009

• My solo show 'Observations on a Town' opens at the Bracknell Gallery at South Hill Park, Bracknell Berkshire on Saturday the 28th of November at 1 pm. For the gallery's main space the town of Bracknell, with its 1950's architecture and pending regeneration, is my inspiration. While in the side gallery I'm taking a broader look at the urban surface and it's use as a means of communication. Included in the exhibition are drawings, collage, prints, video and sculptural installations.
• I'm involved in the Digital Developments Season of creative workshops at the Digital Media Centre at South Hill Park running a 2 day course on Experimental Digital Printmaking on the 21st and 22nd of November. Using many of the techniques first developed by the Digital Atelier, artists attending the course will learn about wet transfers and preparing a range of materials for printing on inkjet printers.