
Hampstead AAF 2016
Hello! I have a few pieces at The Hampstead AAF this weekend, including this Radial 3 piece, on the TAG Fine Arts stand. So I thought I'd send a quick note to say that if you're in the area and you'd like a free pass to visit the event, you can book online here - conta.cc/25dIQiU

Bloom / editioned
Ros Ford and I completed the Bloom edition last week at BV Studios, and after 4 or 5 days drying time, the completed, editioned, etchings are packed and in the post to my Experimental Print Club members today.
It's been a fascinating process working with Ros on the etching. For clarity, Ros made the copper plate, and has done all the inking and printing, my input has been the original drawing, the film work, all the digital stuff, and the print finishing. I've chosen to leave one naturally deckled edge, and 3 cut sides, partly to show orientation, but primarily to make a real feature of the beautiful softened edge of the handmade Somerset paper. All the prints also have a full watermark in the bottom r/h corner.

The London Original Print Fair 2016
I'm quietly excited to be included on the roster for this year's London Original Print Fair at The Royal Academy. I'll be exhibiting work with TAG Fine Arts, hopefully including my recent Klint series, and my Arpeggi / FOLIO.
If you'd like a ticket for the event let me know, and I'll see if I can get TAG to send one out to you. The fair is open from Thursday 5th May to Sunday 8th May, you can view the listing online here http://www.londonprintfair.com/

Bath in Fashion Week 2016
I’ve been invited to exhibit a few pieces at Jane Austen’s house this April, as part of Bath in Fashion Week 2016, curated by Jessica Lloyd-Smith.
There’s a lot more information about all the events, talks and seminars during the week that you can view online here http://www.bathinfashion.co.uk

Bloom / Patreon Experimental Print Club / 1st edition, April 2016
We're looking forward to inking up the copper plate we completed a few weeks back, and actually printing the first edition - Bloom - at BV Studios this week. After a certain amount of trial and error, we've chosen to use a digital bitmap of the original drawing at 500 ppi, transferred to the copper etching plate using a laminated photopolymer film, exposed with an aquatint screen. All good stuff. There are just a very few decisions left to be made about the exact hue of the black ink, which is likely to be fairly warm.

Flow 8VO at the Battersea AAF, 2016
Great to have Flow 8VO, a new piece of digital screen art, on show in a dedicated screen art space at the Battersea AAF this weekend. It’s been selected as one of the fair’s Platform Projects.
I’ll be at the venue giving a short talk about the piece at 1pm on Sunday 13th March, and will be happy to stay on for a tea and a catch up later in the afternoon… hope to see you there…

Flow 8VO
Flow 8VO is a new digital screen art piece utilising a redrawn version of my 2007 ‘Flow’ geometry. This new study adds time and motion, to create a durational kinetic artwork for screen display. The work sequences eight individually rendered 40 second movements, with twenty eight 40 second transitional phases, to create a 24 minute sequence, that loops seamlessly.

London Art Fair, January 2016
Great to be showing work at The London Art Fair with TAG Fine Arts this January. If you’d like a ticket for free entry to the event, please do get in touch, TAG have a few available on a first come, first served basis…

EDIT 2016
Published by Transistor, Edit 2016 is designed to offer a broad overview of selected works from the past decade, alongside workshop images, colour proofs and associated ephemera.

Happy Christmas, 2015
I thought it might be a good time to send out a blog post on my Patreon page, to mark the end of the year, and let you know a little more about what I've been working on. Maybe you'll be able to find a quiet moment over the holidays to have look at some of the content, here's hoping!

Tower 42
Curated by Jessica Lloyd-Smith, the exhibition at Tower 42 was a great opportunity to exhibit work right in the heart of the City of London.

Patreon Experimental Print Club
I've just started using Patreon to host a new, very particular Experimental Print Club. Somewhere along the way it seemed like a really good idea to start making more ephemeral, experimental print work, to set alongside the larger pieces I'm making with Perspex and laser technologies.
Maybe there's an opportunity here to get back in touch with the roots of what being a printmaker can be, creating beautiful, intriguing, ephemeral works on paper, that can be enjoyed in the moment, stored, given away, or displayed around your home. A little like a bunch of cut flowers from your garden, fabulous, but transient, to be replaced by new blooms in the not too distant future...

BeBop / an early days sketch
I've been clearing through old work on my hard drives, as I prepare to move to a faster machine next week. I'm hoping it'll allow me to work more flexibly this autumn. As a result, I've been re-visiting a vast number of studies in progress, that have been reworked along the way, and ultimately become quite different pieces in their final iterations.

A Gallery in the Mews / Opening Vernissage
Really good to have two works, Blast FIRST and Evol, included in Marco Venturi’s new venture ‘Made in BrItaly’. A project that combines art and craft in a new mews gallery in central London.

Generator 2012 / a short film
A little before the launch of my 'Generator / process and progress' show in Nov 2012, the Catto Gallery commissioned a short online film, made in my studio during the run up to the opening. You can view it online here…

Words in Colour / Space, W10
The exhibition includes painting, printmaking, sculpture and photography with work by gallery artists Soraya Schofield, David Kiely, Kate Williamson, Dave Tomlinson, Barry Cawston Photography, Lily Urbanska and Chuck Elliott

Analogue to Post Digital, BFX Conference, 2015
I’m looking forward to presenting a recent paper at the BFX Conference this September, which Dr Sarah Sparke, CMIR, UWE (Centre for Moving Image Research, University of the West of England) and I have co-written this autumn.
Entitled ‘Looking back to go Forwards: tensions and missed opportunities. A case-study of continuities and breaks in practice and technologies’ the paper examines the ways in which current curatorial practice and pricing mechanisms may be putting a brake on the uptake of contemporary digital techniques being used, and commodified, both in the commercial gallery sector, and the wider arts community.

Curious Duke Gallery, a new pop up show curated by Jess Lloyd-Smith, September 2015
Jess Lloyd-Smith's Modern Art Buyer project is hosting a fabulous new exhibition of work at the Curious Duke Gallery, located at the top of Brick Lane, my old stomping ground throughout the nineties.
I'll be showing works including Radial / ONE and Blast FIRST alongside gallery artists Maria Rivans, Bonnie and Clyde, Jane Emberson, Emma Cowlam, Alexander Johnson and Rebecca King. Should be well worth a look.

Fresh Art 2015 at the Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
Last chance to see a great mixed summer show at the Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth. Gallery director Mark Riley has selected works for a group exhibition featuring new work by Clark Nicol, Sir Peter Blake, Karen Nicol, Connor Ragus, Dominic Vonbern, Iva Troj and Rosie Sanders alongside seven or eight of my own recent pieces.

Transistor at the Hampstead AAF, June 2015
Good to be exhibiting work with the Transistor project at this year’s Hampstead AAF. The fair opens at 5.30 on Wednesday 10th June for the charity private view. It’s then open from 11am to 9.30pm on Thursday 11th, and 11am to 6pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 14th.