After a year and a bit studying for my part 1 in architecture at Sheffield University, renovating a house and studio for Laura and myself and most importantly of all having a baby, young Alfred Davies, it seems that I have re-hitched my saddle and slowly got back on the art/design band wagon with four projects about to kick off this spring and summer.

The first is a sculptural commission for the omnipresent builders and developers BAM properties, which is just about to be submitted for its planning permission.

The second is a project for Leeds University called the Road to Voting, http://www.theroadtovoting.org/ a bit behind my hoped schedule but the contract is nearly signed, and by all accords its time for a voting based artwork to leap from the moleskin notebook and into the world.

The third is a commission for a new School in Bristol headed up by public art consultant Aldo Rinaldi – other artists undertaking the series of commissions are Tom and Simon Bloor from Birmingham, the Arnolfini Gallery, and amazingly Nick Park of Ardman animation in collaboration with Conrad Shawcross?

Finally there is a design commission for some new offices for the Leeds based building developer St James Securities, the first proper building design I have been asked to undertake.