for the bees is a participatory project led by Owen Griffiths and Fern Thomas which stems from a concern about the threat to bees. Working with a musician we will compose a song for community choirs to sing to bee […]
This project brings together four diverse collections covering the history of Runcorn and Widnes on the River Mersey held separately in Catalyst Chemical Museum, Runcorn Town Hall, Halton’s Libraries and Norton Priory Museum. The collections are being catalogued in a […]
This blog follows the reaction to a fire in the building where Green Door Studios was located. The building on Highgate in Kendal, Cumbria had been the studio premises for the artists’ collective since it was established in 1995.
Public Facilities is a sign-posting project which will hopefully divert some traffic into some of the “semi-public” places in society. The project will be launched on Wednesday 3rd of March with a public intervention in Temple Bar, Dublin, where participants […]
Growing up in Newcastle, most journeys began with the Tyne and conversely, the river represented coming home. For 12 years in Manchester, a city of railways and canals, the culverted and brick-bound Medlock, has been the only river I’ve seen. […]
Art Allotments is our collage exchange project where we regularly send each other envelopes containing our rejected art work of drawings, roughs, prints & abandoned ideas together with interesting emphera and text. One extra condition that we made for ourselves […]
Given the increasing numbers of academically qualified artists, some educated even to PhD level (there now exist Doctors of Art), I have wondered, for a number of years, about the concept of an Art Surgery modelled around the idea of […]
A blog telling of the stresses of the last semester of my glass degree at The University of Wolverhampton!
Landscape/Portrait (www.landscape-portrait.com) is a collaboration between artist Kevin Carter, artists, communities from around the UK.The project presents self-portraits of real people across England and Scotland and compares them with the demographic portraits that exist based on official statistics for their […]
Ba (hons) Fine Art
A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CONCERNING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE RELATING TO SEA SURROUNDING SHETLAND. IT SEEKS TO MAKE DIRECT VISUAL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN OBSERVATIONAL AND EXPERIENTIAL FIELD WORK, NORWEGIAN MATHEMATICIANS AND SCIENTISTS RESEARCH ON EXTREME WAVE THEORY, AND […]
Re-titled Mind, Bodies & Thoughts, this blog’s angle has changed, storing some random thoughts related to ideas I’m working on & other (creative) events.
Together we are four artists working separately in extending our ideas through collaborative projects: this reaches towards a proposed exhibition but also explores the process of making and concocting ideas. Online diary and textual formations act foundations for an exhibition […]
The process is simple. Knit no less than 2 rows of 10 stiches a day for a year. The colours that you chose should reflect your mood. I started doing this on new years eve. Then I thought that it […]
This blog documents my work during a three month residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia. The FAC is a state funded, multi-arts organization hosting exhibitions, residencies, concerts and workshops.
From the drawing board to the opening night, this blog will cover the realisation of my proposal for the market estate project. www.marketestateproject.com
Colour is the secret key to my work and able to create unity and harmony in my work. Convey meaning and mood are used to evoke emotional response. I use my eyes more than my ears because of my deafness. […]
Cerbyd is unique in its’ aim to link artists with specialist community groups across Wales through travel, activity, collaboration and dialogue. The project will enable 10 selected artists to get to know eachother while making creative responses to their country […]
Welcome to Nadja’s blog. Nadja is a collective of female practicing professional artists engaged with themes relating to contemporary feminist issues. This space will be used as a place to discuss concepts revolving around our artistic practice. We hope this […]
This blog tracks the development of my residency with the University of Bath’s Department of Social Science and the Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, March-June 2010. I will explore work, labour, particularly focusing on intersections between artistic and sociological/anthropological work […]
quad have reinstated the future focus scheme originally run by q arts. there are five of us on the scheme, we are realising a new piece of work each with mentoring and help along the way. there will be an […]
I have been awarded a grant by the Arts Council South East to support year long research period to develop new work, build new partnerships and to develop research document, which would be very valuable tool to enable future partnerships. […]
Light contains the potential for transformation. As it’s fleeting presence touches an object it becomes animated in an endless possibility of ways. The lead up to a group show on the 5th February 2010 at Elysium Art Space in Swansea. […]
in november 2014 we published our go and see bursary review. it informed an art walk in belper parks www.corridor-arts.org.uk
Recording my progress I prepare to exhibit as part of a group show, Danger, at The Rag Factory in East London, curated by Kate Wiggs.
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