
BA (hons) Fine Art
This is my diary about my final year at UCS studying Fine Art
This is my diary about my final year at UCS studying Fine Art
In this blog I am examining the way society is still patriarchal. How do I explore this visually? What images can capture this? How do I cohesively portray this? Can I do this powerfully and aesthetically? How do I avoid […]
contemporary. conceptual.
Land Strategies 06.01.2014 to 21.02.2014 residency. My project is about constant disturbance through the dislocation of site by the artist in relation to place. It straddles the border between art and research and consists of the development of thoughts and […]
an accompaniment and documentation of my attempt to make 12 applications to artistic opportunities in 2014. this idea was born out of becoming aware that i’d let my portfolio slip into disrepair and seeing three opportunities that appealed to me […]
The ups and downs of a contemporary exhibition about normality in a provincial backwater kind of town.
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 […]
The Grid … discarded in the summer of 1995 upon Snaefell Mountain.
For the last few years our practice has focused on the domestic. We have been using film, drawing and hand-written observations to record how our children’s play continuously alters our home environment. This blog records a series of discussions with […]
Ginny Topp is the recipient of the Art Space Portsmouth Graduate Residency Award 2013. This blog documents her 6-month residency in studio 22 at ASP.
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.
This blog will document my research & development of the Manse Project which will take approximately a year to realise. I intend to create a new performance from this R&D which will be presented in both the UK, Manchester and […]
Currently searching for significance in abstract imagery using drawing.
Artist residency at Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, Austria. I think I’m mostly going to be drawing lines.
Reflections on grief and the creative process, prompted by my current solo show of sculptures ‘The Gifts of The Departed’ at Manchester Craft and Design Centre, until March 2014 and the showing of The Gifts (2010) at Zhejiang Museum in […]
Thoughts and responses to an artist residency with the National Trust for Scotland on Arran
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 […]
Currently in the 3rd Yr of a Fine Art degree at Hereford College of Art. I became editor of our student magazine ‘Palette’ at the end of my 1st year and re-started it. I’d love to hear from other art […]
Dissecting medicine and health through visual and literary arts
During my two-chapter residency at Westminster Reference Library I will expose and question a language we collectively recognise from a wider world of work. The blog will document work-in-progress.
A collaboration between artist Charley Peters and photographer Eddie Otchere. We will be making, discussing and probably disagreeing about work while developing a dialogue between the analogue processes of drawing and chemical photography. Project supported by an a-n New Collaborations […]
After the first public showing of my new work Re-Veil-Le on October 11th, I am starting the blog I wanted to start at the beginning of the thoughts that led up to that work 18 months ago. Re- Veil-Le is […]
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.
Since graduating in 2008,Campbell & Connors joined forces again in 2012 to present an exhibition titled ‘Works on Paper’. Through collaboration, we’re extending the project & continuing our investigation of what a work on paper can be. Asking questions such […]
Having re-engaged with my practice due to the Artist Teacher Scheme, I am now continuing my journey through the M.A. in Arts Practice and Education. Time to take a deep breath…and here we go!