Blogs - a-n The Artists Information Company

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

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

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

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.

Project Me: charting the progress of my practice since 2007

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.

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.

Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not

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.

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, […]

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

My reflections on persistence, learning, earning, being an artist, on being male, the ‘Artists Insight’ project, the theory of ‘The Creative Cycle’. I aim to reveal some of the questions and contradictions involved in living with an art practice in the contemporary world.

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.

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

blog of on going non linear artwork/film/documentary commission, part of the arts and heritage pilot programme of the museum of making at derby silk mill. the finished work is to be installed into the museum of making.

Sketches, ideas, work in progress.

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

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

Claiming the streets

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.

A peer learning group exploring co-production in socially engaged practice, centred around practice of place. Written by Lead Artist Niki Colclough with contributions from collaborators.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 […]

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

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.

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.

A place to write about my inclusive praxis

keeping an annual blog has become a thing for me now. this year i’m interested in what the twelve in twenty might be.

sharing processes from an earth-based practice

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

I have a long-established interest in non–places & transitional zones which include motorway services, airports & business parks. My local research point is Europarc & its surrounding environs. The site is a short drive from my rural village home in Northern Lincolnshire.

My a-n bursary was for building contacts in the prison service to develop a new idea for working collaboratively on an exhibition commission with prisoners. What a year it turned out to be for learning about the arts in a difficult to access sector.

It’s been a few months since I completed my creative coding training, which was part of my a-n bursary. Since that time, along with many many other artists, my projects plans have changed. Lots of projects were cancelled, but also […]

Conversations with artists about their work and the creative process

As artists and freelancers, we need to adapt to survive these challenging times.

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

New piece I have been working on.

This blog records my professional development connected to a recent a-n bursary for training in creative coding (8 one-to-one sessions) with creative coder Chris Ball. I began with some online exercises to understand the basic principles (am complete beginner) and […]

        https://vimeo.com/245014501 “(Forests are)..sensorially far too various and immense for anything but surfaces or glimpses to be captured. They defeat view-finder, drawing paper, canvas, they cannot be framed;..” (John Fowles, The Tree, 1979) My current project, Digital […]

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

process and planning of collaborative illustrative and audio art exhibition, between myself and Ulrika-Igraine Muñoz-alarcón.

Research and development exploring reconsiderations of landscape through my fine art practice as part of the A-N Travel Bursary 2016

Research and development exploring reconsiderations of landscape through my fine art practice as part of the A-N Travel Bursary 2016

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

An exploration of the second generation post memory experience of exile following the Spanish Civil War through object art, performance and installations. I blog about my research, the process and the finished pieces as they emerge.

I have been hitting walls with VR for so long. Finally this year I have found a door! I am exhilarated! Beginning this year I was awarded an artist bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company and Arts Council England […]

A place to be. Sharing responses to COVID-19

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

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

Analogue and digital collaboration exploring ideas around Co-operation, Moderation and Equality

Reasons to join the Fine Art Trade Guild

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

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.

How to make a fencing manual in a pandemic.

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

the vegetables, herbs, fruit, flowers that come off my allotment this year plus attendant thoughts

With her work and indeed this book, Misselbrook is asking questions of her audience, and herself. We journey with her, and that is how I arrive here, having responded to a question.

“Can you hear me?”

October 2020 brings a new colour scheme inspired by a friends washing line in the Gambia. I’ve translated this into underglaze colours but then started to see the colours everywhere! These colours will be used on a series of pots […]

Over the past few years I have focussed on negative painting as I find that this approach really allows the vibrancy of transparent layers of paint to shine out of the painting.

An outstanding classical siyah qalam drawing (soot and brush) on paper by 16th Century artist Muhammad Herati.

This work attempts to expose and retell ‘her-story’ over-ruling the past and present cultural guidelines of what was important and upheld.

The friction of truth, personal experience, culture, gender and binary boundaries. Material and form within a narrative and subject of gender, binary, object and body.

I have no clear understanding where I stop and my children begin, this is mirrored Through object in that I am the house, the kitchen, the bath, the dogs, the bitty Lego carpet and my un made bed.

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

Every modern-day artist now needs a wide array of skills beyond the traditionally recognised skills

An understanding of Omnology

This blog has been retired…

About being a disabled artist late in life

Documenting my practice as an artist, while also juggling a full time job and my personal life. Account Executive by day, Artist by night.

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

comments and images relating to my artistic practice

Check out these YouTube introductory videos on some essential Creative Technology tools for artists, students and young people that I made at BOM

The moment the work happens. The circumstance of inspiration. As told by an invited series of artists. This blog document the multiple dialogues which contributed to the planning and implementation of this project and the journey towards bringing the exhibition to life.

How Covid and Lockdown has affected my Art

Getting something good out of something bad & helping teach kids to read along the way!

working with an online community i orchestrated an interactive documentary (idoc) about walking through the pandemic.

the project has been gratefully supported by a grant from arts council england emergency response fund

digital research made possible by a grant from the arts council’s covid-19 emergency fund for individuals.

Approaching perfumery from a fine art context, this blog describes how scent is a viable means of communication.

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 […]

In the middle of a pandemic, amidst the pain and anger that erupted as a result of the George Floyd murder, it is hard to make art that captures this point in time. Yet, The symbolism of the Four Horsemen seems perfectly suited to these imperfect times.

News, updates and the written ramblings of a cat-fluff covered visual artist with a penchant for cheesecake.

I recently found out that I have been accepted as one of the 10 finalists for the ‘SCAF Emerging Artist Award’! The exhibition is in October, and I have the next few months to produce an artwork based on the theme of ‘Climate’ and my submitted proposal.

We walk in the woods together: Fred is an inquisitive Irish Terrier who is maturing and mellowing since being a puppy. Rob is an artist realising that these woodland walks are integral to a subliminal creative internal processing. We enjoy walking in local woodlands every day.

A bit more detail that could not be included in the live interview, due to time restrictions.

Disengaging from The Attention Economy to plug into something/anything else, and then… blogging about it.

Share tips on resilience with fellow emerging artists

# Flaunt It is an exhibition and social event in Southampton conceived by Tony Spencer and Peter McGinnis.

This project is in tandem with the blog: “Locked down into Paying/Denying Attention”.
I intend to access a beach that has no official access.

Reflections on my changing art practices in a temporary working space

Portal is a new collaborative installation project initiated by Ceramic Artist Emma Summers. It is inspired by traditional folk and fairy tales and the the historical medieval market town of Ludlow and the community of South Shropshire.

In the coronavirus age when, we learn, a virus is neither dead nor alive; when scientists can create and manipulate biological life, technology creates artificial life, and inanimate objects often appear to take on a life of their own, the question is, “What is Life”?

A new blog charting my continuing practice

Artists are bringing their £10.8 billion per year industry in to play to help lead this country out of darkness.

An exploration of forensic identity and what it means to be unable to identify human remains.

A lockdown project exchanging artwork with other artists, displaying it and discussing the process.

I’ve been lucky enough to be given access to a garden over lockdown – I live in a small-ish two bedroom flat on the second floor, nice views of London but no garden space. Going out onto the streets to […]

I have undertaken professional development and mentoring with experts that supported me advance my arts practice. I have explored and developed my professional practice as an aquatic performer by researching business strategies with Joel Cahen, audio/visual practitioner.

After months of isolation we crave togetherness, yet seasonal music festivals are a no no. The Selecter, whose 2-Tone music sought to defuse racial tensions in Thatcher’s Britain, remind us of our humanity. Relevant then as now. Different media, different sides of live music.

An artist placement at manufacturer Ritherdon & Co Ltd, taking place between Feb 2019 – Feb 2020. A development from an Art in Manufacturing 2 residency for the National Festival of Making 2018. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

A blog documenting my experiences studying an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Musings from my attic studio during COVID Lockdown.

Expressive • Contemporary • Modern Art

Reflection 2nd and 3rd Mentoring (I’m confused it might only be 2nd!)

Curated by artist Colette Lilley, participants were selected who work with drawing and who are active on instagram

2020 first quarter was shaping up to be very busy in my small studio, where I have been teaching one-to-one workshops in contemporary encaustic wax for a few years.

Drawings created while walking repetitively around the outside of the house

Since so many of us globally are confined to our homes and gardens because of Covid-19 pandemic. I thought it would be an opportune time for self-reflection, hence the title, ‘Confessions of a Garden Hermit’.

Art and environment – where art is used to connect people with nature

Strategies for creativity when the world is in chaos

Celebrating synchronicity and queer community, with reference to Alan Turing, AL & AL, Allan Horsfall and Islington Mill.

Commissioned as artist of the north to work with environmental organizations to help protect some of the most endangered species in England.

This summer I’m experimenting with non human drawings. Paper is taped to a hanging tray and a pen placed above that in free movement. The tray is loaded with enticing bird treats. The wind and the birds make the drawings.

This week on the blog, I calm down and get reflective after a month or two of slightly frenzied painting output.
And actually get around to writing on my blog.
I know. It’s been a while.

Working in homemade lye soap and its relevance surrounding the genocide of witches.

Impressions in buildings and impressions in sculpture

An exploration into the desexualised accumulation of female forms

I have spent months addressing the perception of the female. That a woman with intelligence is powerful. That a woman with power is dangerous. That a woman must be stopped from thinking about power. That a woman must be stopped […]

Casting my own body as a ritualistic form of unerstanding

Convid-19 has stopped flights. Will cheap flights start again after lockdown? – Should they?     I think not. For 10 years I have worked with a theme of flying. Can I go on?

Stratum is a research and development project investigating the intersection of traditional Fine art practice and immersive digital technologies.

a reframing residency began in march 2020

Artist in Residence in the West Highlands with Room 13 International

My first solo totally on line art exhibition with Aleph Contemporary

Why Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture ‘Quarantania, I’ has new-found relevance in our lockdown life.

Here are my notes (09/2019-05/2020) of the framework of ‘artful leadership’: artful+novel ways forward led by (neurodivergent) thinkers/makers embedded within socio-political structures to catalyse social/cultural change amid COVID-19+ future novel challenges.

It’s been 1 year since my #MagicCarpet was launched at the Art Workers Guild, when we unpacked the term ‘neurodiverse art’. Since then, there’s been a mini-explosion of activities tagged ‘neurodiversity’ in UK arts & academia, but, or hence, the term remains contested.

A practice research residency in Grenoble exploring street trees and how humans relate to them

The greatest polemic that no-one knows about

An un-apologetically messy journey between life and the development of a new podcast series exploring sociopolitical issues.

2 week R&D residency at the international Centre for Choreography, Dance4, Nottingham 1-14 July. Supported by A-N-Bursaries.

A space for the research and progress of creating purely language based video, for my existing text ‘Home is now’ – part of my placement on the London Creative Network (LCN) via SPACE. I will also record my development during the LCN programme

Returning to work full time as an artist after 17 years out of the ‘scene’… this mid fifties man’s weekly thoughts and experiences of how tough it is to get ‘back in’

Looking into connections between autobiographical memory and clothing, linking art and science through research and material investigation.
Image: Untitled (STB), 2011, plaster, 30 x 12.5 x 9.5 cm (cast of inside of clothing)

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

Painters Today, hosted by Lucy Cox, is a visual arts podcast dedicated to painting, promoting and archiving the voices of contemporary British artists.