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A small series of oak leaf mobiles responding to time spent at Dove Cottage and the woodland, using a quote from 'The Tables Turned'. 'The artworks look beautiful and the film is lovely; it made me stop and stare in the midst of a busy day – perfectly...

After spending time at the Wordsworth Museum and reading more about Wordsworth, I wrote down some thoughts which resonated with the development of Breath Water Marks (which are exhibited at the museum).     'It was also beautiful on the calm, hot nights to...

For a special exhibition to celebrate twenty-one years of jaggedart, each gallery artist was invited to present a work which fits within 40cm x 40cm. We made an oak leaf mobile in oak wood and with pyrography, have used part of a quote by Sartre about the mobiles of...

Essay by Ian Duhig to accompany a series of poems for an international anthology of Ekphrastic poetry - 'Dancing about Architecture', edited by Oz Hardwick and Cassandra Atherton   Breath Water Marks by Ian Duhig, 2023   "To most people who look at a mobile,...

I went to the Wordsworth Museum for a meeting to explore the possibility of hanging the new mobiles inspired by wake in the 'pause space'. Afterwards, I spent time exploring the Museum, Dove Cottage, the garden, orchard and the woodlands.

I knew nothing about moss until a couple of years ago when I read Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s a book which is both poetic and informative about the unique and transformative properties of moss, and since reading it the mosses on our local moorland have...

A few other poems which have inspired me while thinking about the concept of wake.  

A group show featuring textiles, sculpture, ceramics and etchings by artists Danielle Creenaune, Juliet and Jamie Gutch, Katherine Jones, Solange Leon, Tanya McCallin and Justine Randall. Visit the gallery Tuesday to Friday, 11 am to 5 pm. Other days by appointment...

Soaking and laminationDry, rough-sanded and ready to cut out the internal shapesCutting out, ready to fine sand

Exploring lightness of lines and marks drawn from images of water boatmen skittering across the surface of water in the boathouse.

Exhibiting Dovetailing at the Windermere Jetty Museum this year gave me the opportunity to spend time in the museum with its adjoining boatyard and conservation workshop, and to get a sense of fleeting movement, floating reflections, the forming of wood, and working...

This mobile was made for an exhibition at Quay Arts to accompany a screening of the film FAWLEY, which explores the life and decommissioning of the landmark power station and its local connection with landscape and people. Made by Chu-Li Shewring and Adam Gutch,...

A few more images from Ellary.      Visual notes for remembering what I have seen

We spent a week on the west coast of Scotland on the Ellary peninsular. I was absorbed both by the long, lone strands of seaweed which, given form by the water around them, looped and moved in meandering response to the currents and tide, and by the ephemeral traces...

A very inspiring exhibition of the life and work of Ruth Asawa, which we visited at Modern Art Oxford on 13 August. Citizen of the Universe takes a unique look at the visionary artist, educator and activist Ruth Asawa (b. 1926, Norwalk, CA – d. 2013, San Francisco,...

Mobile installed at Solace, Leeds

Gathered Notes book, telling the story of the first two Dovetailing exhibitions

Dovetailing at Windermere Jetty Museum

I really enjoyed installing seven new mobiles with Jo Tinker in her new gallery, The Tinker Gallery, on Friday. The seven mobiles make up a full window installation. The inspiration came from learning about sphagnum moss. A shape within each mobile wraps around (and...

I'm currently preparing all the long hanging threads for the mobiles to be suspended within the very high space at Windermere Jetty Museum. The studio is full of long silent threads of different lengths, held in tension with a clip. The effect of so many empty strings...

We had a wonderful day last week visiting the Windermere Jetty Museum for a site visit for Dovetailing in the summer. A talk with the conservation team opened up so many avenues of thoughts about wood, trees, shapes, craft, and working with the elements. The sounds of...

I am currently packing up some Dovetailing pieces to send to jaggedart for the stand at Platform at the London Art Fair (21 - 24 April, Business Design Centre, Islington) which this year is exploring the theme of 'Music and its Part in Contemporary Visual Art'....

Inspired by the book Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, I have been searching for sphagnum moss on Ilkley Moor. In its ability to capture carbon, sphagnum moss is inordinately precious to the balance of the world and yet it is so small; clearly discerning the...

I am working on a commission for a couple who specified that they would like it to be in olive. I have always wanted to work in olive. I love olive trees and my great-grandfather worked in Italy, where he and my great-grandmother lived and raised their family, as a...