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CENTRAL PRACTICE
The Studio
Studio Practice Diary · daily making, reflection and next steps.
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Featured Collection 01 · Objects of Memory
A faithful record of the evolution of an artistic practice.
Featured Collection 01
Objects of Memory
These familiar vessels, books and domestic interiors recur throughout the practice. They are not decorative motifs but companions in a sustained enquiry into memory, place and attention. Their repeated appearance across photographs, journals and studio studies reveals an evolving relationship between everyday objects, domestic space and lived experience.
Founding Charter
A lifetime of seeing, thinking and making.
The Living Archive is a continuously evolving record of artistic practice.
It documents how ideas become artworks through research, reflection, making, collecting and lived experience. Rather than presenting finished works in isolation, it reveals the intellectual, visual and material processes that give rise to them.
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2008–CONTINUING
The Library
Forty-seven Research Journals, reading and theory.
JRLA database indexed through RJ-047
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VISUAL RESEARCH
The Cabinet
Visual influences, artists, objects and collected ideas.
A Visual Influences section in every journal
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PUBLIC PRACTICE
The Gallery
Bodies of work, photographs, projects and exhibitions.
Works connected to their research lineage
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WRITTEN PRACTICE
The Study
Writing, website, publications and PhD development.
Academic, curatorial and public audiences
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PRIMARY SOURCES
The Archive
The complete preserved record from 2008 onwards.
Original files preserved and linked
The Centre
The Living Studio
The active record of making, reading, collecting and reflection.
Today's PracticeThe Living Archive
Current QuestionHow do ordinary domestic objects become repositories of memory?
Current ReadingGaston Bachelard — The Poetics of Space
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Studio Practice Diary
The working page at the centre of the archive.
This is the continuous record of what is being made, what is being questioned, what is being read and what happens next. Each entry can later connect to Research Journals, visual influences, projects, works and public writing.
Today's Studio
Practice Timeline
Today's page is waiting for the next observation.
Every artwork begins as an accumulation of small observations. The Studio preserves those observations before they become exhibitions, publications or collections.
On the Desk
Today's visual field
Practice Constellation
Connected Today
2008 — Continuing
The Library
Search the JRLA master archive: journals, journal entries, artists, subjects, theory and reading.
Home Library · Foundation Catalogue
The Bookshelf Collection
A photographic and searchable map of the books that support the archive.
Catalogued books0
Bookcases1
Shelves catalogued5
Physical map
Bookcase 1
Permanent codes follow the convention Bookcase–Shelf–Position, for example BC01-S02-029.
Shelf 1Reference, writing, art theory and photography
Shelf 2Research methods, photography, art history and collecting
Shelf 3Design, classical art, photography and reference
Shelf 4Architecture, Renaissance art, photography and design
Shelf 5Art history, printmaking, craft, design and collections
Visual Research Archive
The Cabinet
Artists, objects, architecture, images, design and recurring themes.
Collected Seeing
Visual Influences
Research Journal references gathered into a connected history of artists, objects, spaces, images and recurring visual ideas.
Artists
Artists
The artists and source figures who recur across journals and studio practice.
Objects
Objects
Domestic objects, collected forms, vessels, books and material culture.
Architecture & Interiors
Architecture & Interiors
Rooms, built spaces, gardens, interiors and spatial arrangements that shape the work.
Themes
Themes
Identity, masculinity, memory, interiors, colour, collecting and material thinking.
Works · Projects · Exhibitions
The Gallery
Finished works presented in relation to the research and studio development that produced them.
Bodies of Work
Projects
Each project can reveal its complete genealogy: research questions, visual influences, studio entries, experiments, works and public presentation.
Photographs & Works
The completed visual record.
Exhibitions
Exhibition histories, catalogues and statements.
Artist Statements
Writing attached to bodies of work.
Sequences
How individual works form larger visual arguments.
Writing · Website · Publications · PhD
The Study
The place where practice is articulated for academic, curatorial and public audiences.
Written Practice
Research & Publication
Academic writing, website essays, PhD development and curatorial presentation all draw from the same underlying archive.
PhD Development
Research questions, proposal material and practice evidence.
Academic Writing
Essays, exegesis, papers and critical reflection.
Website
Writing for academic and casual audiences.
Curatorial Portfolio
A presentation of the continuity, depth and value of the practice.
Primary Sources
The Archive
The complete preserved record from 2008 onwards.
Preservation
Original files remain intact.
Future indexes, annotations and connections should always lead back to the source material. Browser tools can export records, while Chrome or Edge can also save directly into a chosen local folder.
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Research Journals
Forty-seven volumes and continuing.
Studio Practice Diaries
The central working record.
Visual Research
Artists, images, objects and influences.
Writing & PhD
Academic, curatorial and public texts.