Selected Writings is made up of examples of different approaches to the production of written texts made since 1994. This includes a conventional essay form used both in reference to reflections on arts practice and to issues associated with Fine Art education. There are also examples of more speculative approaches to writing that are closely connected to studio practices. Other more ‘hybrid’ approaches explore the role of writing within a drawing practice.
1994 The Integration of Theory and Practice within Modular Programmes: Visual Arts and Culture – a case study
1997 An Anxious Optimism – Simon Lewis Paintings 1977 – 1997
1998 Narrativity and a Sense of Presentness in Abstract Painting
1999 An Exhibition, an Eclipse and the Hermeneutics of Painting
2000 Some Reflections on a ‘Space for Reflection’
2000 The Enigma of Conflict – The Recent Work of Karen Lyons
2005 Urban Design – Towards a Working Strategy
2007 Blackpool Vistas – Arts-Based Investigation of the Golden Mile – transforming space to place
2009 Drawing as Essay/Essay as Drawing
2010 Some further thoughts on PAINTINGISH: A reflective commentary on Project-Works from 2004-2009
2012 Looking through the Overlooked
2014 Some Notes towards Representing Abstract(ion)
2014 From a (Greater) Distance: Some Reflections on Fine Art Education 1967 – 2009
2015 Guernica in Manchester Re-Representation: Footnotes to a Drawing
2017/19 Picasso’s dream would inevitably become a nightmare Draft One
Auvergne Greys – dvd – detail from collaboration with Sue Dunbar in Galerie de L’Art du Temps, La Chapelle deL’Oratoire , Clermont Ferrand. October 2007
Part of ‘Ping Pong’ artist’s exchange programme involving artists from Salford and Clermont Ferrand