This is the final stage of the 3 year long Look About project – I will blog the reviewing of over ‘one million minuites’ of lifelog and creating a Geological Map from the information – The project sets my everyday […]
There is a Chinese proverb which states: “The best memory is not so firm as faded ink” – this is something I will be exploring as I spend a month on a research and development residency in Shanghai courtesy of […]
Apart from the obvious bits of new technology being used, have artists come up with anything radically new since Dada? Artists seem to need the reassurance that their work is innovative, and that their ideas are unique and new. Are […]
I’ve just launched a Kickstarter Project to fund a new Art Installation in recently constructed Hospice, please share this project as I need all the help I can get. I’m also offering some great rewards in return for you pledges […]
A heady mix of gumption, foresight and horse sense… this will not be boring. Our preparations for Residency @Locally sourced: Recipes for change in the arts. The SSoCiaL ‘SAUCED’ residency is a partnership between Arts Development UK and a-n The […]
The Art & Anatomy “Student Selected Component” in Medical Humanities at Keele University Medical School was inaugurated in 2010. We offered four academic modules plus life classes for 3rd year students, and ran the course for two years. The modules […]
a giant step…..
Setting out into the artworld can be a daunting experience and not to mention, overwhelming! I want to create a space for artists to share their experiences to help other artists in their careers.
Written off by a primary teacher as ‘Just a little girl with a head full of fairytales’ I have suffered a long journey to finally, proudly and wholeheartly call myself an artist. Now I need to do the work. I […]
Charting my experiments to discover artistic potential hidden within various industrial materials, particularly resins
I am exploring how extending the horizontal line as the first act of description can act as an underscore to dwelling, empowerment and anti hierarchal but architectural art in unexpected sites, non-spaces and edgelands. Work uses installation, film, performance and […]
Hidden Landscapes Project is an Arts Council funded research and development project. Focusing on the fringes of the town Letchworth Garden City in North Hertfordshire, the project will involve individual research, collaborative engagement and a discourse with the town, its […]
I am collaborating with Camilla Brendon on a series of performances called GMT- over Skype. This blog documents one performance and the preceeding time developing it over 4 days in Birmingham with performance artist Kate Spence.
Where pixel meets stitch: deconstruct – reconstruct, this blog aims to chart a joint venture between Elena Thomas and Bo Jones as they prepare for a show in October 2013 examining their preparations and developments.
I am on a journey investigating the sub conscious mind and a primordial relationship with trees. This project does link in with Heritage and Psychology. I am particularly interested in developing healthy pathway's for people that do not feel competent […]
This is my first residency. It has been awarded by The Collection, Lincoln, University of Lincoln School of Art and Design and Synapse Arts. I shall be responding to the 18thC Derby porcelain in the Charles Norman Collection.
August 2013 Walking. Walking in fields. Walking in woods. Walking with a massive sky. Walking with a stretched out landscape.
In recent years we’ve been on a treadmill of commissions without time to reflect and seek new inspiration for works WE’D like to make. This blog charts our progress as we embark on a review of our practice, involving; a […]
BA Hons Fine Art Based in Sculpture Newcastle upon Tyne www.jasperweinsteinsheffield.com
My current research process for transforming Burning the Books – a live intervention project interconnecting debt, sin, absolution and payback – into a touring work, after a recent successful GFA for R+D from the Arts Council. One artistic approach to […]
My, Arts Council Funded, residency at Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham starts on Monday 2nd September. I will be photographing women of all ages who live, work or shop in this area of Cheltenham. Six women has signed up so far, […]
am a artist who happens to be disabled not a disabled artist. Lost my left leg below knee, also lost tops of my fingers and to add insult to injury have had a hip replacement on the wright leg. very […]
@AliReedFineArt www.alireed.co.uk BA (Hons) Fine Art – I am in my final year at Staffordshire University studying Fine Art. My Practice involves sculpture and installation relating closely to elements within Modernism, taking inspiration from Modernist paintings and architecture.
Over a year ago I contacted eleven soap manifacturers asking to sponsor me with 2 tonnes of soap bars for a project in a former Public Baths by the river Don/Sheffield. LUSH showed interest straight away and supported me through […]
For ‘Contemporary Construction 1’ at CADS/Sheffield we will make site specific work that relates to a white and a black room and the inter-connecting courtyard. CC1 is subject to ongoing change, the elements will be exposed to alteration and refiguring. […]
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