(Extract from cover of How to Make Books by Esther k. Smith) As life seems to now stop and start depending on restriction levels and has...

It has proved difficult to get reviewers engaged, especially for shows happening out of London and even more so during the pandemic so it...

(Photo: Tony Millings) This project was always going to be based on conversations about home, primarily within and in relation to Luton...

Preparations are in full swing so the journal is side tracked for a while. Working on three new artworks, which will all be interactive,...

Watch -door open- today is its last day https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/door-open-explore-online/ In the past few days, while working...

Touch has been brought into sharp focus during the pandemic as we've been advised to frequently wash our hands, socially distance and...

Now that our hearing range is home bound and the streets are still eerily quiet we become more alert to the hum of our tech devices...

Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind. Still from In Vitro (2019). Courtesy of the artists. Many of us grew up playing 'home', creating and...

As my eye wanders away from the view from my window I cannot help but pause on the variously cluttered corners of my home, which I...

Although I promised myself at the end of the last Press Pause post - to write about 'still life' - I will delay that one for the sake of...

As life seems to settle into a routine of primarily online interactions, masked faces and empty streets, I still spend time trying to...

Photo: Harun Morrison (16th April 2020) Artists have always been drawn to windows. Maybe it's the attraction of light (which historically...

'When you wash your hands in the bathroom, for instance, do you wet your hands for three seconds, four or longer?' is one of several...

Photo: Taysir Batniji, No Condition is Permanent (2014) Being home bound as we all are these days, I become conscious of the objects we...

Walking is an important part of our everyday and has become central to my practice. My research in Luton, like most places I make work...

The outbreak picks up pace and things change very fast as the restrictions intensify and the outlook looks grimmer and grimmer. On the...

In the days following the first pop ups, while the Corona Virus Pandemic picks up momentum I spend some time packing up an old piece of...

First two pop ups were held on a stormy wet day in Luton with Corona virus looming. First I met many wonderful Art & Design students as...

I think alot about homes these days, in fact I always have. Homes are in my thoughts for many reasons. Partly its because immigration is...

Back home I spend many hours setting up the next few weeks' 'pop ups' which involves a fair amount of chasing people. I also work on the...