Nina Chua and Jessica Longmore will be Artists in Residence at the 501 Contemporary Artspace, Chongqing, China during November 2010. Whilst in Chongqing we will be working on individual projects, but will be taking part in a series of daily […]
I’m working with visual memory and text (rather than memory based in human figures and narrative) Especially foreign writing–from travels in Asia and visual influences of written Asian language characters.
I’m working with visual memory and text (rather than memory based in human figures and narrative) Especially foreign writing–from travels in Asia and visual influences of written Asian language characters.
Saturday the 27th November 2010 is ‘Buy Nothing Day’ and as part of ‘b-ART-er’ a Contemporary Art exhibition, Michael Bold has been commissioned to create a work responding to the site, an empty shop. The empty shop opens on 25th […]
St George’s Arts is an arts organisation based in a redundant church in Esher, Surrey. This year we are organising a more varied programme including two residencies, an installation, exhibitions, artist’s talks and creative workshops for artists as well as […]
At the moment I’m giving this blog a rest mainly cos of the awful formatting and small images. Instead I’ll be using my other blog, at wrongdreams.com
I am facilitaing a community art project involving art performed ‘au plein air’ in garden or farm spaces in my area of Devon, the Exe Estuary. Keen painters are meeting in each other’s spaces over 2010 and 2011. Work will […]
Does anyone read blogs – how do I get your attention. Should I put these things in my work – will it get everyone’s attention and me in the papers and pay my mortgage – please let me know.
The visionary council housing developments of the 1960’s may be far from the decaying estates of today, but can we embrace their utopianism. My paintings deal with the now and the then, the optimism contasting with the look of wear […]
An Arts Council Grants for the Arts award is allowing me to carry out research for a new project which is slowly taking shape. This blog is my attempt to beat back the brambles as I make my way up […]
‘Ways in’ for dancers and artists to the complex conversation happening between dance and visual art. The influence of dance on other artforms was recently highlighted by a series of major exhibitions: ‘Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets […]
Over the next year I will be working towards an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. I’m sure that there will be many highs and many lows as I get to grips both with my course, and […]
we have space, we have artists, we are developing a presence in southampton, we have an exhibition open at the moment. lots to catch up and reflect on.
The story so far…Having moved to Brighton in August 2010, to start an MA in Fine Art at Brighton University, my first term featured, amongst other things, a temporary but disfiguring skin condition and an overwhelming sense of disorientation. I […]
As I move through a 2 year MA Art and Design in Education course at the Institute of Education, London. How my work progresses in finding connections to understand, grow and progress whilist focusing on play, participation and social engagement. […]
This blog has been set up to coincide with my residency which is at Armley Mill, Leeds between October and December 2010.
In 1828, my ancestor Stephen Hedges was transported to New South Wales. On this residency in Newcastle, Australia, using themes from my research (the past and the present; history, myth and reality; imagination and the landscape) I’ll examine his story […]
Award-winning sculptor Laury Dizengremel, also photographer, designer & art project consultant begins a 14 month residency in the Vale of Belvoir on the Lincolnshire / Leicestershire border in the East Midlands. Besides modelling busts of the Duke and Duchess of […]
In November artists Joss Burke, Graham Chorlton, Peter Grego, Myfanwy Johns and Tom Ranahan will exhibit new work in Bordeaux. Invited to take part in the Art Chartrons Festival in the French city by Francis Viguera (President of Art Chartrons […]
Pigeons are a kind of disruptive anomaly amongst the order of the city, and yet they usurp the order whilst being a part of it. Surely the best means of rebellion/subversion; become a part of the system you aim to […]
A collection of my works, and texts to inform
What happens when siblings who get on really well in general but argue (let’s be frank here) frequently about art decide to confront their differences for a joint exhibition? Through a process in which my sister and I make work […]
Some of my projects are months in the making. Some just launch without thought. My recent Twitter project (#ADailySelfReflection -a self-portrait every day) is certainly a case of jumping before looking, but I am following instinct as a means to […]
“The Hot Chestnut Man sees Paul Conneally running a Hot Chestnut stall outside The Institute of Ideas’ “BATTLE OF IDEAS” which will be held at The Royal College Of Art on the 30th and 31st of October 2010″
This blog will follow the performance project The Customer Is Always Wrong, from planning it in the UK, making and showing it in China and then adapting and presenting it in Europe.
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