Blogs - a-n The Artists Information Company

It is difficult with Bipolar Disorder and my mobility issues, so much pain, emotional and muscular.

Words and images from the development of an artist book, supported by an a-n Artist Bursary. An ongoing project concerned with mineral extraction, accelerated agriculture and sensation in scientific processes.

Just Another Exhibition Space

Research into art and mental health informing collaborative newspaper project Dwell Time. https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com

I’ve called this blog ‘I draw’ because my art-work is centred around The Art of Drawing.  I am interested in making art about people, presence and our experience of time.  I think Drawing is an especially appropriate medium for my […]

Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not

This blog will chart my wet plate collodian journey. I am very excited to have been awarded the Professional Development bursary in order to learn this process, and gain the skills (and confidence!) in order to create a project using […]

Supported by an A-N Artist Bursary, I am undertaking research with Louise Hobson, exploring ways that we may find collaboration through our shared interests. The funding has supported a visit to Grizedale Arts.

My reasons for undertaking Professional Development, the logistics of realising pre-planned and funded activity, and an exploration of its legacy within my practice.

A nostalgia for a time that never really existed in the first place.

How on earth to continue a practice with no income??? Dealing with financial abuse and neglect.

My reflections on persistence, learning, earning, being an artist, on being a man, my project ‘The Artists Space’. I aim to reveal some of the questions and contradictions involved in living with an art practice in the real world.

I’m artist in residency at Brighouse Recycling Centre for Brighouse Festival 2018. I will be working on site researching and and undertaking Rubbish Conversations leading up to the Festival (5-14th October), culminating in a performance on site and exhibition at Brighouse Library

A blog in which I attempt to chart progress in 2018.

A blog about artists, historical and contemporary, who use textiles as a starting point. Written by Claire Benn, leading textile artist, teacher and curator.

Aidan Moesby works extensively in arts and health – particularly where wellbeing intersects with technology. Here he reflects on his experience of being Curator and Artist within a Disability Context

How and why I do what I do in paint and in drawing.

The artwork should takes care of its own message

12 September 2017 – 12 September 2018 | VENICE | NEW YORK | LONDON

Reflective blog on recent delegation to Budapest organised by a-n & Castlefield Gallery.

Image: quickly taken photo of László Haris’ ‘Blow Up, 3-4’ (1973) taken whilst browsing Saándor Szilágyi’s ‘Neo-Avant-Garde Trends in Hungarian Art Photography’

Me and Fred explore the world together:
Fred is an Irish Terrier who likes chasing birds and engages with the world by exploring things using his nose. Rob is an artist who likes black felt tips and coloured pencils, who engages with the world by talking to people on dog walks: