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Biography
My reason for setting up this website and weblog was to detail developments and thoughts in my artistic practice and research A sort of online sketchbook, in fact.
It should come as no surprise to anyone then, that I view myself as an artist. I'm also (as of Autumn 2004), a PhD candidate at the University of the West of England, looking at Book Art, its place in artists' practice, and those artistic tendencies' transferability to other media. I do other things too, which I will touch on below:
The late, great Willie Rushton, who was a far from uninteresting character, used to list his hobbies as "gaining weight, losing weight, and parking." I cannot improve on his précis.
Interests
Private Eye, book art, visual art, digital art, music, Americana, cheese, bread, olives, wine, Kenneth Tynan, Robertson Davies, Kingsley Amis, Peter Cook,Vivian Stanshall, art, artists books, arvo part, bach, bookbinding, bread, brewer's phrase and fable, cats and dogs, coffee, coffee gizmos, collecting playing cards, c dictionaries, amateurism, drumming, edward gorey, elliott smith, enamelled and lacquered things, eric matthews, etruscan sculpture, flowers, fried breakfast, fritz lang, gin and tonic, good smells, indian food, italo calvino, jason falkner, jeffrey bernard, jellyfish, john martyn, joni mitchell, juicing, ken kiff, matisse, maurice cockrill, meditation, mum's cooking, music videos, netsuke, nick drake, nigel molesworth, olives, patti smith, paul ricouer, pete & dud, peter greenaway, pg wodehouse, phil pullman, philip guston, photographs, photoshop, printmaking, radio, richard kearney, rioja, risotto, rubber stamping, ruins, seasons, shopping locally, short cuts, spring, stereolab, tea, the beach boys, the divine comedy, the magnetic fields, the pitt rivers museum, the soane museum, theonion, tom phillips' inferno, travel without holdups, umberto eco, walking in the woods, wood engravings, writing, xtc
