Bill Anderson – screenwriter

“That’s it in its dormant state,” Bill Anderson tells me as he packs away the last components of a health-club grade weights exercise station. Actually, it’s probably more professional rugby club level equipment, and is the unavoidable piece of ‘furniture’ in the room - an angular arrangement of benches, steel trusses, levers and armatures. The…

Duncan Pickstock – painter

http://www.duncanpickstock.co.uk/ The brooding presence of the abandoned glass and concrete Lesney ‘Matchbox’ factory[1] stood on the banks of the river Lea opposite Hackney Marshes in east London until 2012. A multi-storey glass, brick and concrete complex, built in the 1960s to house one of the three globally dominant British die-cast toy manufacturers, it functioned as…

Notes from, and for, a studio

Ever since I was at art school – and maybe before - I’ve kept notebooks. They were a place to sketch, scribble quotes, write ideas and lists, or paste cuttings into, like a scrapbook. They became a storage place for thought – a kind of external paper hard-drive. They were also  a kind of filter.…