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My artist statement once described my work as 'interrogating the liminal space between materiality and memory'. A dishwasher manual had more warmth. Here are three drafts of the same statement, plus a repeatable method for sounding like a person rather than a product label.
Why do we still refuse to say the Scottish play in 2026? A tour of the small rituals that cluster around UK dressing rooms — where they came from, which ones actually do something useful, and the one habit a Carlisle am-dram society swears by.
A notebook-and-camera wander through the lamppost flyers and church-hall posters that make up a town's creative life. What gets promoted, what gets overlooked, and what a soggy A5 sheet can teach anyone publicising a small show in 2026.
I spent 2026 trying to keep writing, drawing and performing alive around a day job, and the answer was not a five a.m. routine. It was ten small, low-drama habits, including a single envelope for every rejection.
My sketchbook is not a portfolio. It's a workshop floor — coffee rings, crossed-out ideas, half a set design and one very rude note to myself. Here are seven pages that changed how I make work, in the least tidy way possible.