big chill

I had the very great pleasure to fulfill a lifetime ambition to perform at the Big Chill Festival, which, in the end, did not consist of my being on stage and mixing electronica, but being part of a close knit ...Read More

The Big Chill 2010

davidnash

I recently had the pleasure of spending a summer day at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the new David Nash exibition. Having been born in Surrey in 1945, he has spent the majority of his working life in North Wales, ...Read More

David Nash

Plzen

I've just returned from four days in Plzen, a small city set on several rivers in Bohemia, in the west of the Czech Republic. I was there with a group of local and international 'bakers', at the invitation of the ...Read More

Urban Ideas, The Bakery, and Plzen

berger

The ideas of John Berger continue to inspire and elucidate a world in which power relationships and media management seem so completely enmeshed it's hard to comprehend any kind of journalism that isn't warped out of all recognition. In the ...Read More

Berger and Technology, a thought

ito

Had the very great pleasure to enjoy a day and night of cutting edge sonic arts practice and performance yesterday as part of AV10. Spent the day with Jamie Allen and Will Schrimshaw at the Resonator workshop, followed by an ...Read More

Atsuhiro Ito

Had the very great pleasure of a windy, dark walk on the beach yesterday at Blyth, to see a new artwork from Jamie Allen and Laura Harrington at Culture Lab, Newcastle. The walk was stunning- stunningly cold, but also stunningly ...Read More

Current Artwork on Northumberland coast