
A New Search For Figuration
Notes from a month long residency about the challenge to rediscover figuration after a year of non objective painting
Notes from a month long residency about the challenge to rediscover figuration after a year of non objective painting
Analyzing myself through my own sexual attraction to others. Attempting to ascertain the difference between human, social and animal attraction…hopefully identified the absurdity of ‘hardwired’ but no longer relevant attractions.
A new clay – a new set of ideas – a new process
I sent members of flickr that live & use film near the 23postal locations on the processing envelope, a roll of kodachrome. they are taking photographs of the address on the packet. They then post to Switzerland & kodak send […]
As a woman over 50 I want to share my thoughts with you on being a creative person and finally trying to pin down what it is, exactly, that I do.
The Heritage Gallery, situated at the heart of Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College overlooking the Thames, seems a very appropriate location to be contemplating the constantly shifting dynamic of the shore and its material, at my solo exhibition ‘Liminal Matter’. […]
The ‘Diary of a Constipated Artist’ is an attempt to share the trials and tribulations of a practising artist who is going through an identity crisis. Am I a painter, sculptor, illustrator, designer, video artist, writer, researcher or could I become a performance artist?
Artist Adinda van ‘t Klooster talks about the Still Born art project
A little post about my experience of exhibiting for the first time since completing my MA Fine Art two years ago.
NEW STUDIO/OLD IDEAS After a year of working out of my front room I have taken a new studio. It’s attached to a night club. Kind of an annex to the back room. It needs work; needs some walls building […]
With only 19 days to go before the opening of my new show, I wanted to share my recent trip around Colombia. Friendly people, majestic landscape and fabulous coffee.
Notes on art and life from a Londoner living in Copenhagen.
As this is my first blog I should probably introduce myself before launching into my latest adventure. So Hello folks, how are you all doing? My name is Tara Coggans. I live in Argyll, Scotland and I make Willow […]
A blog in response to attending the opening of documenta14 in Kassel via the a-n travel bursary
diary entries documenting my encounters at the opening days of documenta14.
Chewed things over. A bits-and pieces overview, tastes. Thoughts in note form. Things that have stuck there since seen.
Much of what I saw and experienced in Kassel felt like stunted conversations: vital and resonating but confined to an arena of controlled experience – whether through overcrowded gallery spaces, the rigorous time planning that was needed to catch the […]
I am one of twelve artists selected for Mark Devereux Projects’ StudioBook 2017 and one of five artists selected to receive an a-n bursary to support the costs of StudioBook.
This blog contains my reflections on the lead up to, during and after the Studiobook 2017 programme.
An artists response to the interesting and scary times we are all living through
During the opening week of her Scotland + Venice film, ‘Spite Your Face’, artist Rachel Maclean spoke to Emily Sparkes about politics, inappropriate nose-touching and pasta pomodoro.
a-n bursary award to attend the Venice Biennale 2017 experienced through performance work, drawing the pavilions with feet. It was amazing.
Reporting from Documenta 14 preview supported by a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company
StudioBook is an 8-month artist mentoring programme by Mark Devereux Projects. I have been selected as one of the twelve participating artists and will be documenting the experience via this a-n blog.
Exhibition at Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham