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August 2001
Paula Rego gets by with a little help from her friends, while Melanie Jordan favours collaboration. East meets West at the 49th Venice Biennale as Gothenburg opens its first. Report on corporate collections, painting and photography reviewed and impact of foot and mouth on the craft market assessed.
Commentaries
Clay couture
There has always been a quirky side to my work. I love anything that is eccentric, especially costume that is ridiculous and impractical. Performance costume and fashion have always influenced my work. I aspire to the drama and glamour built up… Subscribers read on…
Commentary, a-n Magazine August 2001
Diatoms
It was whilst studying on a ceramics and glass course at the University of Sunderland that I was seduced by the beauty of glass. Since then, my work has developed into simple geometric forms in slumped float glass made in direct response to a… Subscribers read on…
Commentary, a-n Magazine August 2001
New Wave
Since completing an MA, my career has included solo and group shows both in the UK and New York. My images are informed by cultural theory and I work on themes gleaned from graphic illustration, Manga, Pop Art, Postmodernism and cinema. I have also… Subscribers read on…
Commentary, a-n Magazine August 2001
Sensory stories
In the February 2001 issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE London-based charity Bag Books, which specialises in creating and producing tactile stories for people with profound disabilities, advertised for a full time Craft Worker. The post was given to Rebekah Thomas who talks about the company's objectives in fullfilling the literary and creative needs of people with physical and learning abilities. Subscribers read on…
Commentary, a-n Magazine August 2001
Skinny beach huts
I collaborate with artist Cas Holmes under the name 'Art for Alternative Spaces' and have just finished a Year of the Artist residency in a caravan park on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It is a remote area, bleak in the winter, awash with London… Subscribers read on…
Commentary, a-n Magazine August 2001
The artist and the call centre
As part of the Year of the Artist I was the visual artist-in-residence in First Direct Bank's call centre. A call centre is an invisible public space. As users of a call centre we make contact, transact and are off line. They are part of… Subscribers read on…
Commentary, a-n Magazine August 2001
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