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The editor of Artists talking is Andrew Bryant.
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Welcome to Artists talking

Bringing together Projects unedited with our portfolio of commissioned Artists' stories and Image bank, Artists talking is a unique space to explore artists' insights and perspectives on contemporary practice.
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Cornelia Parker, '"Landscape with Gun and Tree"', cast iron and corten steel, 14 August 2010. Photo: Ann Shaw. This piece by Cornelia Parker is based on Gainsborough's "Mr and Mrs Andrews" of a couple posed under a tree with Mr Andrews carrying the gun. Here the gun has been left leaning against a tree, possibly loaded. 

Honouring the debt

Often we get so caught up in our own practice we forget about the fact that, if it weren't for other artists past and present, we wouldn't be here at all. This selection honours blogs that honour that debt.

'Sometimes it is good, and very necessary, for artists to get out and about and see new work.'  - Ann Shaw visits Francis Alys at Tate Modern and is inspired to upload a delightful video of the 'Glasgow Girls' studio in Kirkcudbright Read on »

'The Hirshhorn Museum Library ... is a research collection devoted to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, and emerging art forms.' - Christina Mitrentse looks into history for her commissioned library project More »

Becky Hunter is on her way to '...look at some Agnes Martins, Barnett Newmans, Mona Hatoums and Yayoi Kusamas.' Go »

Roxane Permar, ‘Four Thousand Flowers’, 2003.Volunteers from the local community heloped Roxane Permar to lay out 4,000 pansies in Normand Park in the first event to launch the public consultation conducted by architects Shillam & Smith for North Fulham NDC

Artists tweeting

Recent tweets from Artists talking bloggers.

'Lost somewhere between panic that show opens a week tomorrow, and relief that this craziness will soon be over.' Lauren Healy

'Answering difficult questions for an interview...' Emily Speed

‘We're talking newsletters this evening. What works. What doesn't. Use the #newsletters hashtag if you want to join in.’ - Kirsty Hall

‘Read what I've been up to this week with a scanner:’ - Jonathan Moss

‘Here's a new image to be playing around with let me know what you think.’ - Richard Taylor

To catch up on the tweets and join in the chorus go to the Artists talking twitter page.

Nicola Naismith, 'ABS Plastic RP part/object - with base material', Digital Photograph, June 2010. Photo: Polly Cruse.

Choice blogs

Liliana Sanchez selects Nicola Naismith's blog Digital making because it enables us to, '...think about modernity and its utopian models and make us aware of the risk of enchantment by forms free from contamination.' Read on »

Related blogs include Colourful Wi-Fi Network by Jung-Hua Liu which decodes London, New York, Chicago, Taipei and Hong Kong Wi-Fi landscapes and Tina Gonsalves' Chameleon Project which investigates the scientific foundations of emotional contagion.

Go to the Choice blogs archive for previous guest editors' selections.

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Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry., 'Inbindable Volume (production still)', 2010. Photo: Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry. http://www.vivid.org.uk/

Projects unedited

Artists discussing their practice and experiences through personal blogs about the projects they're working on, as they happen, whenever they happen. To start a blog or comment, login or register. Read on »

'Unfinished', Oil 60in x 60in.

Image bank

Over 8000 images from over 3000 UK and international artists whose work has been editorially featured in any of a-n's publications since November 2000. Read on »

Gillian Wylde, ‘It'sarealdeadringerforlove’, 2003.

Artists' stories

Editorially commissioned features on significant and emerging artists, includes artists' firsthand experiences alongside interview-based profiles. Read on »

Why professional artists need a blog

I found this in an old National Geographic .

Why professional artists need a blog - Artists talking editor Andrew Bryant examines the many positive benefits of keeping an artist’s blog. Read on »

"...what is staked [in the blogs] is a wholehearted engagement with the potential of failure." Christopher Thomas, artist and Arts Editor at Stimulus Respond Magazine, considers risk and failure in art and blogging. Read on »

The art of blogging - Jane Watt explores the development of Aritsts talking blogs, which provide unique insights into artists' practice and experiences. Read on »

Artists talking internationally - Andrew Bryant's selection of international residency blogs. Read on »

The show must go on - Andrew Bryant provides insights and analysis into the Degrees unedited blogs. Read on »

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Bath Spa University

By Amreen Khan

Im currently study BA Fine Art

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submissions to a book art show #7

By Julie Dodd

I've been busy trying to sort out posting my work to New York. It's going to cost £120 at the post office. But online there are better prices, so I'm going for one of them. I need the measurements of the package as well as the weight but I Read on »

Artists stories

Laura Ellen Bacon has "...a fascination with weight and organic growth and intend my forms to appear as if gravity has intervened. I hope viewers have a sense that the forms are perhaps swelling and haven’t finished ‘growing’." Read on »

Laura Ellen Bacon, ‘Nesting Vessels’, stripped willow and wool felt, 2005. Photo: Ashley Franklin.Selection of forms photographed for exhibition at Hove Museum and Art Gallery, August 2005 (solo show).

Blog Q & A

Online editor of Artists talking Andrew Bryant answers your blog related questions. Mail them to andrew.bryant@a-n.co.uk

Q Should my blog have a specific focus? Answer »

Q Should I always talk about my own practice? Answer »

Q Why blog any way? Why isn't it enough just to have a website? Answer »

Q How can I attract more visitors to my blog? Answer »

Q How can I give readers a reason to return? Answer »

Q Why is it important to be direct? Answer »

Q How do I do a collective blog and what are the advantages? Answer »

Q Should I compose my posts or be spontaneous? Answer »

Q How can I be prepared to get 'Stumbled Upon'? Answer »

Q How often should I update my blog? Answer »

Q How can I overcome the fear of exposure? Answer »

Q How can I make my blog 'sticky'? Answer »

Q What about twitter and other social networking sites? Answer »

Q How do I get more people to read my blog? Answer »

Q How do I clamber up the google ladder? Answer »

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