"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."

To view more work by Chris Dooks, visit www.dooks.org