Diary Drawing Day 630 , 2007
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
Watercolour and pencil on paper

Well, I love this too. Actually, I was in a residential - I used to go very often to this extraordinary place, Drayton Park Women's Centre. Because although I appear to be alright, I was so regularly in such a bad way, cracking up and funnily enough, as I got better, my life got harder - people like a scapegoat, they liked you to just be the nutty one. And as I was rebuilding a life worth living as they say, technically, I met a lot of challenges, a lot of challenges, and a lot of having to change the way I was, but also my relationships with people. So this, I was in a residential place with these extraordinary women supporting me. I was very, very fortunate to go there, there should be a lot more crisis houses like that in the world. But anyway, they knew I was carrying on with my work. And so I was writing an introduction for a book about my work that was part of my time at Queen Mary. It's called 'Redeeming Features of Daily Life', did it with the academic Michelle Barrett, and I'm very proud of it. It's a collection of writings about my work. And we agreed that I would write a chronological history of my, about my shows, and although I'm slightly worried about some affectations in that writing, it is an account of many, most of the work that I made since I was young. So this is all of that in my hive mind, and sort of in people and it's my Prussian blue again, and my mum, it's my mum. And I think that's my, I think it might be a father in law Gerald in there, but a lot of people, lots of memories, but although I was writing about my work, and me typing away on an inappropriately small stool at a table in a bedroom, in a crisis house, and really excited about it. Really excited about getting the chance to write about my work, and to start to really enjoy writing.

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Diary Drawing Day 711 , 2008
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
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Diary Drawing Day 669 , 2007
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
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Diary Drawing Day 579 , 2006
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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Diary Drawing Day 527 , 2005
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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Diary Drawing Day 526 , 2005
30.5 x 22.9 cm (h x w)
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