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What    |   Origin The London Craft Fair

When   |   6 Oct - 11 Oct 2009 | 10am - 6pm  | until 9pm on 08 Oct 2009

Where  |  Stand F7 Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/origin09/ | for more details

Walking in My Mind

Finally caught the 'Walking in My Mind' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London on Friday just in time before it closed on Sunday .  Fantastic installations of mindscapes by 10 artists, taking us on to a journey through mental processes if creativity. Weirdly wonderful...and wonderfully weird. My favourite was Chiharu Shiota's installation After the Dream, which was a dense web-like structure created with wool thread creating a floor to ceiling mesh. In the centre of this jungle-like mesh were five white dresses suspended  seemingly hovering in air, almost as if they were dancin. Beautiful, intriguing and vaguely disturbing. Here are some images

The Hayward

Yayoi Kusama's installation on the terrace

Yayoi Kusama's art originates from her hallucinations. Polka dots are a central feature of her work.

Charles Avery

Thomas Hischhorn made a tunnel like installation that led into different 'rooms' where books, photographs, foil covered mannequins were kept.

Nominated for Arts Foundation Fellowship!

Exciting news! I have been nominated for Arts Foundation Fellowship. The Arts Foundation awards five £10,000 Fellowships annually in five different art forms.The Fellowships are not open to application. Within every art form a network of established, practising artists and other professionals are selected to nominate one artist they believe should win the award. Awards are made on the basis of both talent and need to artists living and working in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Channel Islands.

I'm thrilled to be nominated!