Added Bright to my name as homage to my Dad who inspired my love of art.This blog is about my journey through the BA and MA. Looking back it’s interesting to see how I keep returning to swimming as a theme. But hopefully with greater depth of understanding each time.
Don’t think too deeply or introspectively…. just paint….just live.
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 […]
Early in 2013 I was awarded an a-n Re:view bursary to pay for mentoring for my art practice. This blog charts the significant stages in the process of undergoing a review of my work with the help of a mentor […]
As an artist and programme and engagement coordinator at Chinese Arts Centre, I am embarking on a research trip to Taiwan. Aim: to source out new connections, artists and partners between Taiwan and UK, looking into alternative programming models and […]
A diary of my development as a “re-emerging” artist.
On this blog Liz aims to share her new ideas, research and works as well as her concerns as a full time practicing artist.
In this blog we will be collecting our thoughts while building, develop and using 3D printers. Working from an open source starting point, we hope to get to grip with this newer technology which over the last few years has […]
I am here to encourage myself to explore what interests me, allowing my reflections to develop.
Some reflections on the Venice Biennale, and ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’ curated show described in a number of reviews as ‘blindingly apolitical’.
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 […]
To the Light Exhibition was my Solo show at Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham in 2014 that takes as its starting point, the powerful depictions of the destruction of the 2011. Riots which spread from London to Manchester and moves […]
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.
Supporting the exhibition Portfolio NW (the Bluecoat, Friday 26 July – Sunday 15 Sept 2013), this blog features new critical writing from North West based writers, artists and curators. Bringing together eight North West-based artists, Portfolio NW celebrates creative talent […]
A one-off blog in response to my time at the Venice Biennale launch. I’m going to have to post it in four bits, so read post 4 first. You’ll see what I mean…
Sifting through old diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, scraps of paper I realise these thoughts might have some coherence alongside my ongoing collection of photos of things that aren’t really there.
Crossing transatlantic boundaries, this blog presents a collaborative reading and interpretation of Michel Chion’s significant text Guide Des Objects Sonores: Pierre Schaeffer et la Recherche Musicale (1983). Perspectives have been developed with the Chicago-based sound artist and educator Monica Ryan.
Gnawing at bits of a video I’m working on. With a piano in it.
This blog aims to present activity during a 7 day period of residence in Outlandia, Glen Nevis, Scotland. Outlandia is an off-grid treehouse artist studio and fieldstation in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. A flexible meeting space in the forest for […]
Live art, sound and the short lived via a succession of varying situations bound in time.
This blog contains some of the various observations on Veince Biennale 2013 that I was able to attend thanks to an a-n go and see bursary. I have a particular interest in manifestos and performance but cover the event more […]
But, having won a Review bursary my hand has been forced and here I am dipping my toe in the digital stream with some thoughts that will noodle around my attempts to once again re-invent my mode of work.
Posts include: ‘Makers HeadRoom’ – a makers group using Zoom to work together online; the ‘Artists Insight’ mentoring sessions, the theory of ‘The Creative Cycle’ and articles about drawing, persistence, learning, earning and being male
This sums up the question both within my practice which presently uses photography/collage and to find exhibition opportunities and audiences.
Following the progress of my Studio 4 residency at Chisenhale Art Place, where am making a series of etchings in response to the large broken glass windows at the back of the Chisenhale building. www.chisenhale.co.uk
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