Telling Stories
In conversation…Working collaboratively both as an artist, artist-in-residence in a school and as project manager of a touring exhibition.
In conversation…Working collaboratively both as an artist, artist-in-residence in a school and as project manager of a touring exhibition.
Artists Steffan Jones-Hughes and Jeanette Orrell are working towards the Christmas exhibition at Oriel Myrddin, in Carmarthen. THe exhibition is called Coedwig, which is Welsh for wood or forest. It’s a mixed show which will open on 5 November 2011. […]
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Curator Helen Kaplinsky is undertaking a residency from the 4th July – 10th August at 501 Art Centre, Chongqing, China. She has commissioned London-&-Berlin-based artist-&-DJ collective psychoanalYSL to produce new work for the exhibition. This blog documents Helen’s research, alongside […]
Satellite is Dominic Allan, Jo Chapman, Polly Cruse, Olga Jurgenson, Nicola Naismith, Kate Parrott, Dominique Rey. Contact Satellite: [email protected]
Loose ends of a Live Art Residency at the Chisenhale Gallery
Cooper Summer Residency is a space for artists to reflect upon and experiment with new ideas and strategies that will extend their practice. The residency is based on a desire to investigate the means and potential of working in an […]
New Projects
The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…
I start a residency at the Millennium Centre in Leasowe, Wirral on Friday 10 June. This blog is about the ups and downs of being there.
Whilst at university i shied away from my figurative clay work, as you are encouraged to be more radical, different and ‘contemporary’. How ironic that now I’m returning to claywork I find myself being the one breaking the mould.
A site reponsive residency on the first floor of Highbridge studios and gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Part of a research project investigating installation and performance.
the snee snaw is an audio kinetic artwork that takes place in a non traditional art space and encourages players to work together to find the elusive sneeze condition. the project is funded by the arts council through the grants […]
I have been commissioned as Photographer in Residence for NHS Barking and Dagenham. I am spending the next 10 months exploring the pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding experience.
I am starting to realise I am an artist even when I am not in my studio
Ceangal is a collaborative project between Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie (Scotland) & Somu Desai (india) to use social networking to create a series of residencies which will bring national & international artists to the Highlands of Scotland where they will create original […]
A site project taking inspiration from Blackpool Pier & beach. Using childhood memories and personal albums to create a series of works that reflect on a personal history and nostalgia.
Thoughts, workings and playings.
The wardrobe was my grandmother’s. It was the starting point to a series of work, inhabiting spaces.
Blog to document my ongoing research into the transformation of the mundane and revealing areas of unconciously collaborative activity. as part of my MA Fine Art site and aarchive course at UCLAN.
My desire to develop and liberate my jewellery practice from small scale industrial craft production inspired me to start a reflective personal project to create new work. A result of this reflection is that I’ve begun to research part time […]
From June to July 2011, I will undertake a residency at 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, in association with the CAC in Manchester http://blog.chinese-arts-centre.org/, and funded by the Arts Council England. During the residency, I will research into digital and physical […]
a month long residency responding to the location & history of Gdansk shipyard. Based at WYSPA institute of art links http://postindustrialrevolution.eu/web/ http://www.postindustrialrevolution.blogspot.com /http://www.wyspa.art.pl/
“We began at the surface in order to get to the bottom of each other’s work, and by eventually using the prospective ‘exhibition’, in all its formalities and deconstructed environs, we would then begin to understand how our artwork relates […]
I want to use this blog to draw and write as I would in my sketchbook. I am fascinated by the “In/Out” nature of blogging: my internal thoughts and activities as an artist, usually confined to my notebooks, can be […]