It's pretty depressing that a trans poet won the Artur C Clarke award this year - Harry Josephine Giles with Deep Wheel Orcadia - and it’s NOWHERE to be seen in all the bookshops. Seems like this is a perfect opp for trans visibility in a male-centric genre and we've blown it.

I never struggle with the two versions of myself more than in the gift shop of an art gallery.

An essay on the black oil in the #XFiles as a useful model for #materialagency - does the world actually need this? (I'm re-watching after about 15 years...)

As a sculptor, I'm fascinated by the adhesive capacity of weetabix. As a parent, I'm angered by the adhesive capacity of weetabix.

Xmas 2022: the year everyone got tie dye cushions from me 🟦🟪🟥

Although, I have currently spent more time looking for a fun GIF for that tweet than I have on said bid.

First ACE bid since the baby...

Trying ice tie dying for a new body of work...

Good writing is demonstrating empathy and being kind to your reader. Thanks to the student who gave me this excellent metaphor. No doubt I'll be passing it on to others.

It's exactly the same with making an argument in essay writing. Don't trust the reader will follow you if you go walking off: tell them where you're going to go and why, remind them again when you're going off, and review where you've been when you get there.

They said if they didn't do this, they could understand why the customer might get confused. E.g.: "where have they gone? Will they come back? Am I just supposed to wait this out?"

The student replied that it reminded them of their job at a shoe shop. They were trained to explain to the customer what they were about to do and what they would do afterwards. E.g.: "I'm going to get the shoes from the storeroom, then I'll take you over to the till."

In a BA thesis tutorial, a student asked me how they could make their argument stand out to the reader. I said that signposting language is one way of doing this. E.g.: "first I'll be discussing... then I'll move on to... now I've reviewed this argument, I can conclude..."

In this thread, I'll be sharing an anecdote about signposting language. I'll then go on to explore how this might be applied more generally as a useful device in academic writing.

The only thing I don't enjoy about sneakily streaming TV series from my phone while the baby naps on me is the sudden reflection of my earnest little eyes staring back when the credits roll 😶

This time, I found a beautiful rubble heap🪵🍂🧱🪨

Group tutorial for @CGLArtSchool Art and Material Histories MA students broadcast from Morecambe prom this morning.

Please could someone commission me to make soft play versions of Hepworths/Moores/Brancusis etc. for a baby/toddler exhibition?

Doing my accounting for the year my daughter was born: implicit in between the repeated studio rent and campus car park outgoings is the lack of making time being an artist and the teaching sessions away from my 2 month old baby. What a year. #matrescence

Me, running a tech methods workshop: "it's really really important to be familiar with traditional sculpture materials and processes." Student: "do you use them in your work?" Me: "no, never." This exchange happens a lot.