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A journal about the daily practice of drawing.

Some Thoughts on Art and Tech

This A-N Bursary Time Space Money will allow me to work closely with Lapworth staff responding innovatively to the museum’s fossil collections. It will enable me to explore the environmental potential within my work through collaboration and learning new techniques.

    The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…

Documenting a-n supported professional development in 2022, including studio residency at AHH Studio Collective and project with Holly Rowan Hesson.

Makers HeadRoom is a makers group using Zoom to work together online. My latest blog describes it and how to join in.
Others posts include: the ‘Artists Insight’ project, the theory of ‘The Creative Cycle’ + articles about drawing, persistence, learning, earning and being male

Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not

Mixed media paintings using collage and palette-knife-applied acrylics

I’ve LOST my new studio but am still painting.

A live artwork and run following the length of the river Thames from source to sea over 14 days, 31st March -13th June 2021. In partnership with Estuary 2021 #AssocProg21 & Anglia Ruskin University.
With thanks to my partner Richard Allen, who accompanied me in a campervan.

The obvious answer is a resounding yes. But how many people could honestly cope with the stress of financial insecurity? For the small percentage of those doing it full time, the percentage is even smaller for those financially secure from […]

A collection of strategies for doing the job of being a freelance artist.

An illustrated series of anecdotes chronicling episodes in my life.

Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote, if you’d like to ;)

Alongside my personal practice, I now offer coaching to artists and makers.

Developing a new body of work in 2021 with an ACE Develop Your Creative Practice Grant – achieved with the help of the a-n Mentoring Bursary 2019/20.

My first blog ‘Keeping It Together’ came to a natural end when I moved in to my studio. ‘Keeping It Going’ picks up where that left off. Will I be able to maintain a blog at the same time as […]

Project Me: charting the progress of my practice since 2007

I’ve called this blog ‘I draw’ because my art-work is centred on Drawing. I am an artist from Margate.

I am discovering, meeting, and interviewing artists and write about it about four times a year.

I believe that there is always room to learn more, no matter what field one chooses, or how many hours one puts in. This blog highlights the art courses I’ve been learning from.

Painting and contemplation

A solo exhibition of new painting, prints and works on paper by Susie Hamilton

Watch ACT! attending artist Rafael Perez Evans talk about his large installation made with foodstuff, and his art practice was influenced by a childhood memory involving lemons.

This blog is happening to coincide with a greatly received R&D bursary from A-N, I will be using the bursary to support new skills learnt in sculpture to develop new Installation works for the project WITH-IN-MEMORIAM.
Here i will be blogging about this process

Recently The Metaverse has been bothering me. There’s a lot of chat about it in Virtual Reality circles, but I think scaring people with suggestions of strangers in vibrating pants is a bit alarmist. We need more good people in The Metaverse. Please join the good guys.

Developing the use of everyday choreographies, movement, gestures, performative texts, and encounter as process for translating into peripheral and public spaces.

R&D visit to the home of the internet

Ivan Grieve talks to us about growing up in the Bohemian North London of the 1960s, his unusual methods of self portraiture and dealing with the Devon rain.

Recent work produced for the upcoming Back of an Envelope Show, helps me to evaluate my work process.

A recent painting capturing visible and invisible light. Exhibited at The Museum of Lincolnshire Life, LN1 3LY, until the end of August 2022.

Continuing my advocation for Puppetry Arts and Puppetry in Fine Art as well as in Schools and at Festival a Puppet Dinosaur make activity was developed and delivered in a drop in workshop by me at The Green Man Festival.

Public Art & interpretation project

This is my journey of discovering objects in museum collections which resonate with me. Aspects of these discoveries then surface in my Art practice as I continue to develop my skills in Ceramics.

Charcoal drawings from Shetland

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

A visual art exhibition of over a dozen mixed media and acrylic paint based wall hung collage style Canvas based artworks accompanied by a digital guide, a making of video and associated sounds.

Two day residency with studio holders at Haarlem Artspace in Wirksworth, Derbyshire: Karen Logan, Anna Mawby, Tracey Meek and Tricia Rice.

Carbon Synthesis is an international project to reveal the possibilities of linking art and science to transform perceptions of liminal wetland landscapes; revealing the effects of climate change across the globe by visualising the (in)visible.

Things I have learned. How coaching is affecting my art, my practice, my life.

A blog which started in 2016 with a-n professional development bursary activity and has expanded from there

An exploration through paintings, sculptures, photographs, essays and poetry of the power of place, and the trauma of displacement.

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Marcus Clarke is making available to Schools a range of new puppet making workshops at a daily all inclusive fee of £560 £4.66 per pupil.

Tracking studio progress (not just carving) frequent distractions (not just Art) and ongoing ruminations on the ‘why’ of creativity (not just process).

An exhibition of paintings and drawings on show at the Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham. Hampshire. Runs until 25th February!

Fairy Stories Lost Child Hoods at Mansfield Library Gallery from 13th Jan ‘22 information and regular updates

A place to log images – mostly oil paintings – and the thinking that drives (and emerges) from them.

Collaboration between artists Michaela Nettell and Robert Worley to make and studio test a collection of hinged glass pyramids inspired by Cedric Price’s visionary design for the Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo. The objects are envisaged both as props for […]

If the general definition of a ‘weed’ is taken to be ‘a plant in the wrong place’ or ‘a plant growing where it is not wanted’, what then is the right place for a plant to grow? Project: The Ragwort […]

Introducing seven new podcast episodes out now

This blog will gather images and musings related to 7 monthly conversations which are set to commence in January 2022.

This blog might be a goodbye tribute, perhaps it serves as a way of coming to terms with change because of a new ecological experiment in my local woodlands in a very important woodland SSSI site close to where I live. This is a place I know extremely well with a changing future.

In Spring 2022 I will be the Artist in Residence along the 500km Lycian Way, an ancient trail around Turkey’s Aegean Coast. I will be accompanied by Emincan Alemdaroglu of COMMENTARIVM (Producers of the project), a film maker, and a sound artist.

How to make a fencing manual in a pandemic.

The sweeping clusters of lines and shapes push and pull our view across the picture plane. Standing in front of this huge painting is like experiencing the force of a hurricane.

Find via the link below my 3rd blog, exploring the Blackwater Estuary.

I am very excited to have been awarded a DYCP grant for a years research in the Blackwater river in Essex.

Research Project for final project for my MFA at Nottingham Trent University

Blog about a series of new work I am creating exploring the five Platonic solids through sculpture and associated therapeutic sounds, creating sound installations designed for welbeing and holistic engagement.

Charcoal sketching around the Isle of Skye and surrounding highlands/islands, UK

Exhibiting at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021

Shared Visual Experiences and Thinking Through Art is abbreviation for SVETTA Art Club for NHS staff working at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust

I’ve decided to start another exciting journey for my MOJO and I’d love for you to get in involved…

#1: arrive early, leave early. “Stop here please.” The taxi spits us out in Portland Road, Hove, for the first stop of a four-stop evening, at the studio of an interior designer who has just started exhibiting art in her […]

STATIC – Sarah Cole and Annis Joslin – is a research project exploring immersive technologies, access and experiences of domestic violence. This blog will share some of our experiments and learning whilst in residence at FuseBox, Wired Sussex.

A place to write about my inclusive praxis

A research collaboration with New York-based artist Felicity Faulkner examining coastal and environmental change around Orford Ness, Suffolk, UK and Montauk Point, Suffolk County, USA. My travel to the USA is supported by a-n Artist Bursary.

In Quarantaine, with Georgina Starr

Prison Residencies and working remotely in a re-emerging world

a residency made possible by the work of eaststreet arts in a meanwhile space in derby with a taylored programme of artist support.

a year long blog following how i hold my nerve in light of the waning pandemic.

Orkney Artist Bursary Research Trip

An amazing day at the RA Summer Exhibition 2021

A Covid story with a happy Ending/Beginning

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I have been really enjoying working on these cute pieces.

ACE project grant award

I AM A UKRAINIAN BORN BRITISH ARTIST EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF AGEING AND DEMENTIA TO HIGHLIGHT HUMAN VALIDATION and so excited to share my story with you! My solo show Vanishing Point October 6-10, 2021 is held in a unique […]

The Multispecies Visionary Institute MVI is a creative organisation that harnesses raw creativity to implement alternatives in ways of thinking and making at the service of ART: Apparatus for Resurgence in Trophallaxis.

Somewhere to talk about being an ND person, a professional artist and project lead.

Experimental performance art photography with laser and technic lego assembly

How I challenged my fears and got into radio and public speaking

Finally putting my a-n Artists Bursary to good use and climbing the learning curve of coding.

an exhibition by Tere Chad at Zari Gallery, London.

Review by Giuseppe Mario Urso

Sketches, ideas, work in progress.

I’ve always been described by my close friends and family as ‘resilient’, but what does this mean? Is there a limit to this resilience?

This is my first blog post on a-n :) In the Archaeology of Self series that I have been working since 2019, I explore the intersection of figuration, abstraction and indexicality of subjecthood in the context of the Anthropocene. The […]

A fifth season as Artist in Residency at the Ness of Brodgar excavations in Orkney.

A participatory project exploring individual experiences of sonic environments through mark making.

An account about my flat, painted ceramics representing aspects of my life

A blog about the ‘desire lines’ pilot project and how combined with my ‘Developing your creative practice’ Arts Council England funded grant it is influencing my practice as a socially engaged artists.

This Blog is about undertaking a large private commission within it’s deadline, with an incurable illness, during the Covid Pandemic.

Documenting the creative collaboration between ceramic artist Gill Bliss and textile artist Joy Merron.

After many hours in front of the black mirror, finally a version of a webpage organizing most of my art practice.

Putting to good use a Journeyman LAT grant to take my lettering design work in stone to the next level.

The a-n Artist Bursary came at an ideal time for me during the period of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. Enabling me to undertake extensive research and development for mentoring and to start developing a new artwork ‘Mirrored to the core […]

blog of the non linear artwork installed in the second floor of the museum of making at derby silk mill. it’s part of the arts and heritage pilot programme of the museum. this programme also features work by toni buckby and red saunders.

Revisiting the ideas in my MA dissertation book

I’ve tried to answer a question I often hear…

Exploring the digital, experimental film, and the making of tactile hands-on artwork with the layers of London’s strata.

Timeline of a new challenge: Online Art Workshops

My new work ‘Intervallum’ will be part of First Flight outdoor excision as part of First Light Festival celebrations.

For Helfa Gelf 2017, I am delighted to be Writer in Residence at Plas Tan y Bwlch, and look forward to continuing my exploration of the rich heritage of this great house and the land that surrounds it, building on research and experiences gathered during my 2016 Residency.

Recently I found myself saying the phrase “Chase the play…not the pay” while being interviewed for a podcast…

Here at last is my blog for the a-n Artist Bursaries 2020.The bursary was for me develop my soundart skills and practice. It is such a boost to get this kind of award enabling you to pay for courses, equipmen & mentoring and gives you a bit of ‘street cred’ with commissioners.

A personal, connective and transformational journey into deep listening and kombucha brewing…

Artists can now be seen by stocking galleries.

Terra Nexus is an immersive experience featuring 25 artists produced by Proposition Studios. It invites the audience into a multi-sensory labyrinthine of interconnected worlds to unravel a story which weaves together diverse insights into our relationship with the biosphere.

This blog will serve as a record of the steps I take to realise a bronze sculpture for the lawn of Sandham Memorial Chapel

Documenting the year I seriously started trying to write the future through the eyes of my semi-fictional collaborator/alter ego AuTCRONE and her band of cyborg buddies.

This work makes reference to the cycle and vital processes of being human which are marked by a series of rituals that help us to reconnect with age old customs within our daily lives.
Acrylic paint on paper.

Walking between viewing points.
Sneaking under surfaces.
Pausing where paths cross.

When I have activities growing in parallel, it is at their intersections that the most interesting shifts occur. This blog is an opportunity to consider the interplay between projects.

An arts-based inquiry into human and limpet entanglements over time.

A blog written by Freelance Artist, Raising the Bar Project lead and Neurodiversity in Arts Consultant Gaia Redgrave focussing on access in the arts for those who are neurodiverse and/or disabled. This blog is intended as a resource for artists, organisations and funders alike.

What’s it like to be a neurodiverse creative with a late diagnosis of ASD aged 54 years old? Time to find out I guess…

New beginnings in Lincoln with a very special studio visit (our two kids).

Crab Nebulae , from The Cloudy and Hot Atmosphere of a Quiet Sun. Acrylic on paper.

From the light projection of the same name.

Marcus and Ron – Contemporary Artists introduce their latest Artwork Title: We Love You but.. includes new words!

Botanical illustration in the modern world – exhibiting in the midst of a global pandemic!

Artists Marcus Clarke and Puppet Ron discuss their Artistic collaboration Titled: Money-Bitcoin which explores Duality and Value.

We are a group of artists, curators and arts educators, where the majority are members of  Young Blood Initiative, an international community of artists that aims to explore other ways to create and collaborate. We have set up this study […]

Artists Marcus Clarke and Puppet Ron discuss their Artistic collaboration Titled:Six Cherry Blossoms

Artist Marcus Clarke and Puppet Ron discuss their latest Artistic collaboration. Titled: The Daffodils

When I run a furnace I feel as though I can simulate the closest experience to birth as I may ever get. I can internalise a sense of motherhood. These works stem from my own connection to iron casting and aiding the furnace as a vessel.

‘Reading the Room’ is a movement-research workshop running from February – June 2021 and forms part of my 2020 a-n Development Bursary activity.

An on-line course for artists which explores the anatomy and structure of the horse’s head as a prerequisite for expressive and knowledgeable artwork.

My process, a combination of processing materials and walking in the landscape.

Marcus’s Arts Practice develops back into Puppetry for this latest work. https://youtu.be/KLRz7SOYEnE

studio practice, writing, art, medicine, medical humanities, chronic illness, poetry, painting, performance, body,

This work was instigated by the thought of two of the most frightening things anyone has ever said to me. I’ve put one above another on Canvas, painted in Acrylic.

My subject matter is almost always the female figure. The colour choices for my work can be dictated by my own feelings and also reveal the emotional context of the painting. My artwork invites the viewer to explore the psychological, […]

A-N member artists are invited to submit proposals for their own Solo Show in one of our contemporary art galleries within a series of dolls houses in South London.

Curated by Eldi Dundee who sees this micro curation project as an extension of her collaborative art practice.

The Grid … discarded in the summer of 1995 upon Snaefell Mountain.

Excerpt from my website blog post this week after a philosophical day of writing prose poetry and thinking about my piece in the current DUST Rising exhibition in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

My Time Space Money project will look at the rise in domestic abuse and violence against women during lockdown in the UK.

To view the interview: https://vimeo.com/508473769 Looking forward to hear your thoughts and opinions and to connect with you Luca

Blog for the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, June 2018.

I’ve been asked to paint 2 dogs as a 60th birthday present

We are a peer group of artists that haven’t met together for nearly a decade. We have all worked individually on our practices and felt the pressures of production, coping with a range of barriers.   These challenges might have […]

Lady Kitt and Dan Russell’s Artists Make Change Peer Learning Group for the North East of England.

We are a group called Stair/Slide Space who will be asking the question “What does it mean to drop out?” through our peer learning group session. The topic of dropping out is very timely, with many of us falling out […]

Miyuki Kasahara: 5 x 5 sq ft & Liam Scully: 100 days/ 100 drawings

BA-LF: How to apply the Doughnut Economics Thinking & Teal Paradigm to an Artists Network and Beyond.

An alternative view of the landscape

An Arts Council England supported project seeking to engage a broad national and international audience in discussions around heritage, migration and interconnectedness

When Covid strikes and that you’re already in lockdown, you’ve got no choice but to come out….

Textile Echoes: Annette Mills, Delia Salter, Jennifer Jones and Tara Kennedy are textile artists who have been accepted for a month’s residency at The Textile Centre, Blonduos, Iceland.

This is the story of my journeys to the mystical land of Virtual Reality, offloading the insights I have brought back on my ship.

Dwell time: The time a train spends at a scheduled stop without moving. Typically, this time is spent boarding or alighting passengers, but it may also be spent waiting for traffic ahead to clear, or idling time in order to get back on schedule.

Larkhall Art Club with Alsama Project, Beirut, 27th January 2021. 18:00 GMT

Blog following my residency at the Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London, which runs from 21 January – 1 February 2013

Through the a-n bursary earlier this year, I got the necessary skills and confidence to work on my long-term performance-research project on ecology, gender and ritual transformations.