Together we are four artists working separately in extending our ideas through collaborative projects: this reaches towards a proposed exhibition but also explores the process of making and concocting ideas. Online diary and textual formations act foundations for an exhibition […]
A Grants for the Arts funded period of research and development. Time, space and funding to unravel years of experience raising a large family, to lay out the dissected pieces of my past working practice, take up the bare bones […]
BA Visual Arts at Todmorden College accredited through Leeds Metropolitan University. We’re all mature students with so many differing motivations and objectives working in a wide variety of media. The college seeks to nourish the individual and promotes no “house […]
Michelangelo and Einstein shared this divine faith for a monumental being who immortalises the force for nature , how could one record and reflect upon this eternal mind or force. Recording observation using the thought experiments of Newton, Galileli Galileo […]
A 7-month research and development project, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, East. This project will include visits to national and regional events to help contextualise my practice. I intend to write a review of each event […]
This blog follows the reaction to a fire in the building where Green Door Studios was located. The building on Highgate in Kendal, Cumbria had been the studio premises for the artists’ collective since it was established in 1995.
Dialogue is imperative to my practice, I cannot make artwork alone in my studio like the archetypal image of the Artist. I make art that comes out of conversations and interactions with communities. I now realise that structured critical and […]
This blog documents my work during a three month residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia. The FAC is a state funded, multi-arts organization hosting exhibitions, residencies, concerts and workshops.
for the bees is a participatory project led by Owen Griffiths and Fern Thomas which stems from a concern about the threat to bees. Working with a musician we will compose a song for community choirs to sing to bee […]
We are Level 2 BA Fine Art students. Every year Level 2 students take part in Gallery Practice. With support from staff, the students organise & co-ordinate a public exhibition, from securing a venue, fundraising & publicising, to the installation […]
BA (hons) Fine Art a contemporary art course focussing on a healthy balance of context and practice.
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I attended my graduation cermenony on Monday; the honeymoon period is now over, I have recovered from the stresses of student life, been on holiday, caught up on neglected tasks, worried about the superficiality of my ideas, got bored and […]
I have been staying at the home of friends who live in France where I have been inspired to create silkscreen and monoprints prints using Lichen found on the oak trees.
From the drawing board to the opening night, this blog will cover the realisation of my proposal for the market estate project. www.marketestateproject.com
Journey to the Podium is an opportunity for artists to adopt one of the Essex ambassador athletes and create an artwork that marks their journey to the 2012 games. Organised by Essex County Council Arts Development, the brief is to […]
I’m currently studying for a PGCE at Goldsmiths, and due to this my art practice has come under great pressure. I hope this blog will explore the relationship of my practice with my teaching experiences, and how they interlink and […]
I have been invited to exhibit and give a talk to students at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada in February 2010.– coroocoo coroocoo coroocoo coroocoo – The title of my research is ‘Tell me something: our […]
Lewis Holleran & Gary Bolam on the lead up to a joint exhibition at the Park Gallery, Falkirk, Scotland…
St George’s Arts is an artist led organisation based at a redundant church in Esher, Surrey, a Tudor building which provides an inspiring setting for arts events. It hosts an annual Artist / Maker residency and is developing a programme […]
Recording my progress I prepare to exhibit as part of a group show, Danger, at The Rag Factory in East London, curated by Kate Wiggs.
Public Facilities is a sign-posting project which will hopefully divert some traffic into some of the “semi-public” places in society. The project will be launched on Wednesday 3rd of March with a public intervention in Temple Bar, Dublin, where participants […]