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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."
However, although I have plenty of weight, I haven't got numerous publications and a co-founder of private Eye credit under my belt, so I'll have to do a little better.
As you'll see from the above, and in my blog and my website, I'm interested in art, and spend a good deal of my time making book arts. This enfolds many of my other interests, from the visual arts to narrative. I'm also interested in digital artworks, even though I'm so fond of the role of the author works of art.
I'm interested in music, and used to spend a good chunk of my income buying nerdy imports from my local Americana record store. I've weaned myself away and now spend the money on yummy cheese, bread and olives and the occasional bottle of wine.
Although a fatal admission in one who is about to present you with his daily musings, I'm also a fan of stylish writing: recent amusements and flashes of envy have been directed towards works and diaries by Kenneth Tynan, Robertson Davies and Kingsley Amis. I like writing that makes me feel like I've had a good feed. I'm also keen on humourous writing like the aforementioned Mr Rushton's, and have a soft spot for all his cronies like Peter Cook et al, and some contemporaries such as Vivian Stanshall.
I am a competent, if somewhat enthusiastic uncle, and apt to shiver with inward delight at the prospect of good wine and daft conversation.
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,"imagine a forest", "shooting the past", aldaily, apple computers, art, artists books, arvo part, bach, beach boys, ben folds five, bicycling quietly, billyconnolly, black books, boards of canada, bookbinding, bread, brendan benson, brewer's phrase and fable, brian eno, cats and dogs, christopher le brun, civilisation 3, coffee, coffee gizmos, collecting playing cards, cowboy junkies, critical tools, david bowie, dead can dance, dictionaries, dilletantism, donna tartt, drumming, edward gorey, elliott smith, enamelled and lacquered things, eric matthews, etruscan sculpture, flowers, fried breakfast, fritz lang, gin and tonic, good smells, handdrums, headlong, iggy pop, incense, indian food, italo calvino, jason falkner, jeff buckley, jeffrey bernard, jellyfish, john kennedy o'toole, john martyn, joni mitchell, juicing, ken kiff, matisse, matthew sweet, maurice cockrill, meditation, mum's cooking, music videos, my electric toothbrush, my garden saw, narrative, netsuke, nick drake, nigel molesworth, olives, patti smith, paul ricouer, perfume, pete & dud, peter greenaway, pg wodehouse, phil pullman, philip guston, photographs, photoshop, pop hooks, printmaking, radio, radiohead, richard kearney, rioja, risotto, rubber stamping, rufus wainwright, ruins, seasons, shopping locally, short cuts, spiked, spring, stereolab, tea, the beach boys, the divine comedy, the flaneur, the high llamas, the magnetic fields, the pitt rivers museum, the soane museum, the wondermints, theonion, tom phillips' inferno, tori amos, travel without holdups, umberto eco, walking in the woods, wood engravings, world party, writing, xtc
