Everyone’s at It (collaboration/participation/socially-engaged practice) so my Summer plan is engaging, exploring, experiencing and expressing – in London. I know it’s something to do with power relationships (to simplify, just for now) so I’ll go along to shows/events thinking about: […]
Can we trully blog about visual issues? I’ll give it a go!
The inner ponderings and struggles possibly met during a residency at a private school.
Bug Cinema is a new ecological forest art commission for the Whale Oil to Whole Foods summer eco-arts festival in Greene County, upper New York State. Bug Cinema will be revealed to the forest as a portable glow-lab UV solar […]
SHOW&TELL blog is a collection of my notes from ZeitgeistArtsProjects talks as well as other talks/conferences/debates/ exhibitions I attend or create! It is a way of giving some insight to those who cannot attend these event & an archiving device […]
the simultaneous amalgamation of opposites to equal one and three.
Neuroscience arts residency project funded by the Wellcome Trust and commissioned by The Arts Catalyst. Setting out on a personal, artistic and scientific journey, processing conversations, observations and experiments through my Asperger’s filters. Working with staff at The Autism Research […]
Re my image ‘New America’; is this what we want? What kind of society do we want to live in? What are our values as artists? What our our ethic’s? In a fearsome age of Austerity, how do hold to […]
I have recently arrived in New Ferry where I am undertaking an artist in residency at the New Ferry Butterfly Park. It is organised by Carol Ramsey who is passionate about the park and made a wonderful job of organising […]
St George’s Arts is an arts organisation based in a redundant church in Esher, Surrey. During 2012 we are running a varied programme including a residency, an open call exhibition, artist’s talks and creative workshops for artists as well as […]
Starting Point feels like a pretty apt title; it calls to mind the hesitancy over the first mark in a new sketchbook. Perhaps i should explain, bar sporadic Ballet classes aged 12, dance and I haven’t had much to do […]
Recounting the adventures of my humble garden shed as she wings her way around the Midlands, playing host and providing shelter for artists, musicians and poets.
I delivered a sensory art project in West Dunbartonshire. I was commissioned by a new group formed called Time To Connect which was set up by parents to provide access and participation to the arts. Their main aim is to […]
My current project explores animal behaviour vs human behaviour, influenced by the story wolf Alice by Angela Carter I am intrigued by societies forced impact on what humans perceive as normal/acceptable behaviour. set in domestic settings to contrast traditional feminine […]
BA Fine Art Studying a Degree at Lincoln University
A documentation of recent creative projects, practice and pitfalls. Thoughts on Art in Wales/ Meddwl am Celf yn Gymru.
….to document and archive a ten year project…to win the Turner prize….10, 000hrs of art….1,000 hrs per annum
Diary of my time on the ALAS residency, organised by Matt Roberst Arts. My participation is supported by the Arts Council England Exhibition runs from 28th June – 7th July Opening Thurs 28th July 7-9 First Thursday night 5th July […]
Work post Comma: Hatch Space, new performance and other projects.
‘Shared Ground’ is a further collaborative book arts and printmaking project between the BA Fine Art Course at Wirral Metropolitan College and Brigham Young University’s BAFA programme, Utah, USA. Concerned with our relationship to ‘place’ we hope to unravel and […]
This is a blog about travelling the slippery path of glass from semi-abstract landscape painting to unknown conceptual destinations…
A blog by John Boursnell, reporting on, or at least thinking out loud about, the project 5 actions / 5 texts / 5 songs – a live art piece that uses repeated actions, ball-bearing dropping, cassette looping and singing to […]
‘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 […]
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