Chris Dooks

"What a year it has been so far! In January, I abandoned a five year project (maybe for good? who knows) about experiences I had in the Wild West of America and had a total break from art. In the meantime my dad had an
emergency triple heart bypass and to be quite honest all my art pailed into insignificance. I'm out the other side now, with an anti-electronic art project where I sing. That's right, sing! (Can I sing? - well, not very well).

I am going to be holed up in www.frictiongallery.com for a week at the end of August when the Edinburgh festival reaches it's apex, writing songs - the words of which will form an online exhibition of graphics, with mp3 clips. At Stills gallery I have found great benefit from the environment there and have enjoyed colour printing, flash workshops and web surgeries. I hope to keep my web skills sharp over the coming months to document the year's
projects I have worked on."