MEMORY FOAM
‘Memory Foam’ is an investigation of dispersed media, an open cell structure to explore cultural memory, individual and community, through a process of flow, link and shift. “Step inside love!”
‘Memory Foam’ is an investigation of dispersed media, an open cell structure to explore cultural memory, individual and community, through a process of flow, link and shift. “Step inside love!”
My art grows around me. My flat is filled with objects I have made over the last few years. There is always something going on, something new developing. But this creativity in the living-room, due to M.E. my only possibility, […]
I am currently working as an Artist in Residence at a small primary school on the west coast, where I will work until mid June. I intend to document my progress and experiences through this blog and welcome any comments […]
Julie Dodd, Franny Swann and Elena Thomas started a conversation online. They have never met. They only know each other through their blogs, and the occasional email. They decided they’d like to do some sort of work together, sometime, somewhere, […]
A blog following “Krakow to Venice in 12 hours” – sound project which maps a journey from Krakow, Poland to Venice, Italy, crossing the borders of 6 countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia, and Italy. The project is attempting […]
I’m Gerald Curtis and this is my first project blog. I am the first artist to start New ferry Butterfly Park’s series of ‘COMMA’ mini residencies in the town of New Ferry just outside of Liverpool. This blog is a […]
So this is my first blog here n Artists Newtwork, so please be paitent with me as I am not the best talker in the world.
Part of GrowYourOwn*BlowYourOwn. An Arts Council England sponsored project. This is the ‘multiple participant project’ element which will be an interactive installation at Fermynwoods Country Park, Northamptonshire. www.sophiecullinan.org
An account of my research period in Istanbul as part of POST Liverpool’s TRADING STATION an exchange and research project. Travel funded by UKT&I GAP grant
At the end of 2011 I was selected for Escalator East to Edinburgh and Escalator Performing Arts. I now have the support of Arts Council England, and need to get on with it. I’m taking two works to Edinburgh Festival […]
Never judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes (x100). Send to; 3 Healey House, Hatch Grove, Romford, Essex.
A journey through the making of Lace in Place, a project commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Happy moment versus worrying moments.
Now supported by The Arts Council for England and receiving funding from the National Lottery, ‘Cutting It’ is my blog following ‘Mapping Muswell – An N10 Paper Project’ which relies on the public donating paper to be used in the […]
A retrospective blog which makes record of the first part of the ‘memory’ trilogy- Memory of Snow 2006. A series of paintings were produced after walking through the landscape of the Czech Republic and Wales during 2006-7. They were exhibited […]
Bringing alive a now demolished but much loved dance hall in the north east town of Hartlepool is the impetus for this piece. Working with groups that cover the entire spectrum of age, I am making a video installation which […]
A blog detailing my first exhibition since graduating, the ’emerging’ artist if you will.
People of the Eye are a newly forming collective of (British) sign language poets and visual artists, working together. Each poet has created and performed a poem,to which an artist is asked to creatively respond. The insights of the artists […]
An insight into my creative practice in the build up to the final degree show at Oxford Brookes University. Through the investigation of embroidery, I am attempting to capture notions of the sublime through domestic stitch using imagery from the […]
What does it mean to be an “Emerging” Artist…what is it we’re emerging from – the womb of creativity? It’s something I’ve grappled with whilst trying to exhibit, and to keep painting. As a “self-taught” artist, another non-descript term, I’ve […]
On Monday 5th March 2012 I will leave the Premier Inn, Thurrock West close to the M25 to begin The Great Orbital Ultra Run. Running anti-clockwise, close to the boundary, I hope to complete the circuit in 9 days. This […]
I received an artists’ bursary from Arts Council England through application to attend the State of the Arts 2012: Artists shaping the world conference at The Lowry in Salford on Tuesday 14 February 2012. Arts Council England provided evaluation forms […]
Renovating an old farmhouse in a wonderfully tranquil village in S W France creating a low cost artists retreat. I will run creative workshops. I want to interact with artists and engage in good conversations over excellent food. My wife […]
I will be attending the next Factory Nights hosted by Rednile Projects at J.A Crabtree & Co Ltd in Walsall. I will document my research from the session. Rednile comment on their website: Factory Nights continues to be an innovative […]
Republishes extracts from my substantial report entitled Measuring the experience: the scope and value of artist-led organisations, the 1993-96 research study that explored and articulated value of the artist-led as a vital research-based ingredient in the visual arts ecology.
I am currently artist in residence at Fonderia Artistica Mariani in Pietrasanta (Tuscany) having been award the Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency through the Royal British Society of Sculptors. I have now been here a week and having been inspired […]