Tag archives for Roman Cat
Countdown to the exhibition
This week Bill and I had a very fruitful meeting with the Powis General Manager, Emma Thompson, about the forthcoming exhibition. We have now got dates for our exhibition so…
Cats in the ancient world
Lately, while working on my second Roman Cat statue animation, which is based around responses from visitors to Powis Castle on that particular statue, I have been thinking about cats…
Talking to more visitors about the Roman Cat
This week I went back to Powis Castle to accost visitors as they came out the building to ask them questions about the Roman Cat specifically, this time recording their…
Talking to visitors to Powis about their favourite object and the Roman Cat
Last week I went to Powis on a lovely sunny afternoon to accost visitors to the castle as they came out to ask them about their visit generally, and about…
Testing my work at the Shrewsbury Art School Annual Summer Show
This week and next, the Art School at Shrewsbury College are open to the public with their annual end-of-year Art Show and for my part I've included the work I've…
Visiting as a visitor
Today me and my family went to Powis Castle to the private view of a new collection of paintings by Matthew Wood, current artist in residence at Powis Castle. Matthew…
Drawings of the Roman Cat
I have been making stop-motion animation drawings of sections of the Roman Cat statue. Hopefully these will feature in some way in the video I intend to make about the…
‘All castles have tapestries’
Recently I paid a visit to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to see Grayson Perry's 'The Vanity of Small Differences' tapestries. These amazing images explore British culture and tell a…
Images of the Roman Cat
As well as asking the first four willing interviewees about their favourite objects, I also asked them to tell me everything they know about the Roman Cat. All those that…
Time to get some ideas
At the end of January we went back to Powis for the day, again in the college minibus, to spent a bit of time absorbing, drawing, photographing and thinking for…