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Artists discussing their practice and experiences through personal blogs about the projects they’re working on, as they happen, wherever they happen.
Starting a project? Why not share your experiences by writing a blog about it?
Emily Speed - Getting paid
Rather than talk about my work on here (I have tried it and it seems to make me quite despondent) I have decided it will be far more helpful for me to explore some of the issues facing artists trying to make a living out of this business... Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Tamarin Norwood - What The Matter Is
I work as an artist and writer and I'm nearing the end of an AHRC funded MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths. I work in several mediums and writing is one of them, but this blog is for writing about my practice rather than 'writing as artwork'. Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Julie Dodd - Fellowship
I have returned to the fine art department where I took my degree to start a year long fellowship. This blog will be about life as a fellow! Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
St George's Arts - Helen Scalway, artist in residence 2010
Helen Scalway is an artist who works using drawing to investigate pattern and place. She has just completed a residency project with the V&A and Royal Holloway, London University. In 2007 and 2008 she held residencies at The Drawing Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Eldi Dundee - After Art School...
A not-so-recent, and supposedly mature, art school graduate tells it like it is (at least, as it is for her), a year after finishing art school (two art schools, in fact). Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Vanessa Bartlett - Group Therapy
Like a lot of artists I use my creative practice to discuss mental health issues or highlight wayward psychologies of the human brain. This blog will document my research and curation of an exhibition about the relationship between psychology, the Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Julie Dodd - Day to day life
as my placement as a fellow finishes I have decided to open a general blog for the day to day happenings of my life as an artist. Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Sheree Angela Matthews - Tynemouth Residency - The Water Series
Influenced by the meditational quality of the natural world and the purity, peace and clarity of insight that this brings. Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Holly Darton - Low Profile and Hunt & Darton embark on a self-made camping residency for cross-collaboration antics
Post DIY workshop- 'What to do with the leftovers?' led by Low Profile last year and attended by Hunt & Darton. Low Profile and Hunt & Darton, interested in each others approach and work, have decided to create their own week long camping Read on…
Latest post: 29 July 2010
Ann Shaw - Diary of an artist writer online
I graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2001 as a mature student and I am working on establishing an art practice mainly in new media.web-site: www.annshaw.net Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Richard Taylor - Stating/Showing - a new project to be realised
An ongoing experiment exploring the actual growth of an idea, realisable in the presentation of an artwork that in the end can be exhibited in a given space. As this given space is still unknown to me, the process of blogging is an conceptual Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Rosalind Davis - Becoming Part of Something
Since leaving the Royal College of Art 4 years ago, after the wilderness of life after college, after many struggles, through much determination to engage with artists and the art world, I finally feel part of something.....an arts Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Hannah Elizabeth Singleton - Archiving The Unmade
Documenting the months of postgraduate study (MA Fine Art: Site and Archive course at UCLan). Pulling together two years of research and making for our September show. Aiming to come out the other side with a greater Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Jane Boyer - Working in Isolation: a dialog with history
This blog looks at the benefits and pitfalls of working in isolation. One significant aspect of this isolation is a rich and deepening understanding of art history. I'll explore that relationship to my work, my practice and my efforts to Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Justine Cook - Quarry
For the next 12 months I will be an artist in residence at a quarry. I hope to open up a dialogue about working in heavy industry as an artist. This residency has been made possible through the support of both SAFLE and Tarmac. Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Sheree Angela Matthews - South Tyneside College
Foundation Degree in Applied Arts Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Mark Brereton - Brereton Blog
Everyday working life of a freelance artist / designer. Read on…
Latest post: 28 July 2010
Richard Light and Paul Clark - Swim Circle
“Water is the eye of the landscape” Water holds a lens up to the world through which one can experience it differently. It is an element easily entered but within which one cannot survive without adaptation. How we adapt and Read on…
Latest post: 27 July 2010
Nicola Dale - The Collaborator
The aim of this blog is to share my experiences of collaboration. Although the majority of my time is spent making my own work, I keep getting drawn back into collaborations... why do I enjoy them? Why are they difficult? Why are they satisfying? I Read on…
Latest post: 27 July 2010
andrew martyn sugars - six week residency
a residency out of no-where Read on…
Latest post: 27 July 2010