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Last week I undertook a one-week residency with my artist friend Ula Fung @ulaula129 in her studio at Spinners Mill in Leigh, staying at Ula’s house also. @spinnersmillleigh is an extraordinary place — well worth visiting if you are not already familiar with it. Ula and I have known each other for around eight years, during which time we have informally exchanged ideas, shared work and had all sorts of conversations about art and the art world. But each time we spent together never felt long enough to get deep into the topics we loved touching on. Our @swing__project is the formalisation of the process we already started and this residency marked the beginning that deeper exchange of ideas. During the residency we talked at length about how our work relates and differs and about concepts in painting that we both agree on and partially disagree on. Our agreement gives a strong basis of shared understanding, so that we can really drill down into the places where we differ and then stress test each other’s ideas. I found this whole process with Ula incredibly worthwhile. Alongside this, there were ongoing conversations with other artists based in the mill, usually inspired by the ideas Ula and I were thrashing out. As we move forward, part of the @swing_project will take the form of a structured written conversation shaped by agreed constraints - responding to one another in turn within set parameters and over a defined number of iterations. More on this to follow. During the residency we worked on printmaking together. Ula shared her press and introduced techniques that have opened up new possibilities for how I might develop this work towards resolved pieces. We also made an initial collaborative print - an idea we expect to return to and develop further. Ula worked on compositional ideas for a large painting that she was about to start work on. So now it’s my job to reciprocate with an organised visit for Ula to Liverpool.
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Breathing (Left) 200cm(W) X 180cm(H) Oil on Canvas
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Breathing (Right) 200cm(W) X 180cm(H) Oil on Canvas
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