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Film – David Bird, soundtrack – Joan Tower No Woman is an Island runs until 30th June 2022. No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning female artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  The Exhibition I am delighted to be...

Unpacking my Archive of work up to May 2022 – an opportunity to share a quick overview of my work to date. Currently, I am engaged in research for a new chapter of work. In doing so, I unpacked a part of my archive to best understand my linear progression to date and provide context to new developments. Archive of the Natural World Lichen suspended in the kitchen with...

No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning women artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  I am delighted to be included in this exhibition, curated by Jacquiline Creswell, at the Vanner Gallery, which brings together mid-career women artists in...

Glass Worlds: a series of imploded glass and concrete spheres. As the pandemic extended, my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. My automatic reaction to this is to express it with glass. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to...

Room dividers with Japanese Motifs in the Tokyo National Museum, Japan. Tokyo National Museum, Japan, is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is enormous, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist...

TeamLabs Japan Interactive wave room in TeamLab Borderless, Tokyo Following the intoxicating, sublime serenity, and stimulation of the Nezu Museum and Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, we went to Team Borderless. This is a creative digital mecca, a collaboration of minds expressed in a wealth of innovative, stimulating visual feast. It is fully immersive, saturating, fabulous and completely...

Corridor in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo. The Nezu Museum is a museum and art gallery in Japan with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I have visited and was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with matted rushes, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! Instead, there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water...

Koi, Temples and Aquaponics Recently I returned from a trip to Japan and New Zealand. It was the sort of trip that changes you, and I am now creating a new body of work inspired by the experience. My daughter and I travelled out together from London to Tokyo via Moscow. I was excited and curious to go to a city I had heard so much about but never visited before. The first place we...