MAKING WAVES - EXHIBITION AT CREATE CENTRE, BRISTOL

STOP PRESS: Exhibition now continues until 28th June

You can see a selection of my marine litter installations and book at the Create Centre in Bristol until 28th June, 2013, as part of the Making Waves exhibition there. Other artists exhibiting include photographer Andy Hughes and the Poietic Studio. For more information take a look at the Raw Foundation website or visit www.createbristol.org and follow the link to exhibitions and events. (Note: Create is normally open Mondays to Fridays 8.30am - 5pm - sorry, not weekends).

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OLD NEWS...

EXHIBITION AT LISBON OCEANARIO

My friends in Skeleton Sea have invited me to join them in another exhibition - this time at the amazing Oceanario in Lisbon from now until 26th November, 2012. Thanks to the excellent translating skills of Ana, my wildlife traps and presents from the sea are now available in Portuguese!
See more on the Skeleton Sea website. If you go to Lisbon, don't miss it!!

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THE CULTURAL OLYMPIAD REACHES THE SUFFOLK COAST!

read more here

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THE OIL AGE HUT

My oil age hut is here!! For more details, see my blog

Hutliving Here and There will be at Bridport Arts Centre 29th April until 17th May, 2012. Open Tues - Sat, apart from launch on Sunday 29th April 2pm - 4pm.

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FLYINTHEFACE GOES TO SPAIN...

Thanks to artist collective, Skeleton Sea, a range of my work can now be seen in Spain at Torre Madariaga, the Basque Country Biodiversity Centre - a historical tower on a green hill overlooking the stunning north coast at Mundaka, a stone's throw from Bilbao. As well as Skeleton Sea's amazing sculptures, the exhibition includes Wildlife Traps, Presents from the Sea, Wild Bird Food and Seafood Soup in Spanish and Basque. The exhibition runs until April 2012.

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NURDLING FOR BEGINNERS

Not sure what nurding is but it sounds fun and you would like to find out more?

Always wanted to harvest nurdles but not sure how?

Visit my blog and find out more....

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LINES OF EXCHANGE

I've created an exciting site specific installation of plastic marine litter in the iconic Dovecote Studio at Snape Maltings, Suffolk - it's a really interesting building and with its exceptional height (over 6 meters to the apex) offers a challenging and wonderful space to work in...

For more details see press release

Lines of Exchange can be seen throughout August during the Snape Proms, every day 2pm until the evening concert (approx 7/7.30pm). It will also be open for the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival (this year's theme is the sea) 23rd - 25th September .

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I AM BLOGGING!!!!

Just seeing how it goes... - take a look here ...

PS. you can hear me in interview with Andrew Stuck on Talking Walking... - published from 16th April (& also available as a podcast) but recorded last August in wind and rain!!!

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RUBBISH AND REBECCA

An artist I have met locally has just started a really inspiring project - to individually draw 60000 (yes, 60000!!!) pieces of rubbish, which was the amount collected in 2009 by Suffolk's Beachwatch and Adopt-a-Beach projects. And I thought I was mad just collecting 46000 pieces of rubbish!!!!

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OLDEST SNACK PACKET YET!!!!

Found on a recent walk at Sizewell... a pre-decimal pack of Quavers (so over 40 years old!!!), freshly washed up on the tide...
[I found the Mary & Peter crisp packet a few meters later on the same walk.]

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IS AIR PRIVATISATION NEXT?

A few years ago, fearing that that air might be privatised, I developed an AIR RAID KIT providing everything we need to know in order to collect and safeguard the necessary quantity of air we would breathe in our remaining lifetime. At the time my ideas were considered a little far-fetched - 'what, privatise air ... next you'll be saying they're going to privatise the earth that we walk on?! ' ... Except that most of the land we walk on has been privatised and now the Con-Dems have even sought to privatise our forests!

So could air be next???? It's not in the Con or Dem manifesto - but then neither was the forest sell-off so just don't take the risk - read our Air Raiding guide here now!!

Or to see more about why you need to collect air and to find out about our other air services, click here.

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AN EXCITING NEW WEBSITE!!

Over the past few months I have been working on an exciting new website with a group of  Suffolk artists with the help of a small grant from Suffolk Coast and Heaths and a lot of volunteer hours!
 
It’s called www.landingstage.net and it’s a space for ideas and exploration... created to host artists’ and creative people’s ideas and thoughts about the changing coastal landscape here in Suffolk.
 
If you want to start (or get involved in) a project, show your work, have your say, add an event or just find out what’s going on, do join in - it’s free!
 

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT... nano art on flyintheface.... something for everyone (well, 300 million of us) on a single pinhead...

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STILL NOT CONVINCED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?

see what bloomed in my November garden...

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CAST AWAY ON THE NESS
My exhibition on Orford Ness is now over as the Ness closes for the winter season. If you missed it, click here for a few images from the exhibition...

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SWIFT END TO BALLOON RELEASE
I have known for a long time that balloons can cause major harm to sea creatures but was shocked the other day to see a swift plummet to the ground in my own garden! The swift had flown into a balloon which had burst, ensnaring its neck and wings and causing it to drop like stone. Fortunately my friend Lesley and i are were on hand and able to cut it free - miraculously it had landed on long grass only inches away from fencing posts and flew away unharmed by its trauma. Swifts are beautiful creatures and can fly up to 2.8million miles in their lifetime at heights of up to 10000 feet, even 'roosting' whilst on the wing!

This balloon was part of a charity balloon release in Essex. the charity concerned has pledged never to take part in future balloon releases - but what about the local estate agents and other bisnesses who provide the balloons free of charge to promote their businesses?? Due to prevailing southwesterlies most of the balloons released in eastern England are likely to end up in the sea. I do hope that the publicity given to this shocking incident will make everyone think again about balloon releases - let's not put wildlife at risk no matter how good the cause is...

For more information see MCS's Don't let go campaign .