I find I am revisiting the drawings, writing and words spoken in the making of Cause and Effect last year, and finding them prophetic here and there. Can hindsight be prophetic? I can tangle myself in words if I’m not […]
Leading International Artist Fair to Spotlight Artists Across the Globe. The Other Art Fair partners with global online art gallery, Saatchi Art, to bring its postponed Spring fairs to life online.
Yesterday I picked some elegant yellow tulips from the plot, at home I put them in a green vase. Today they are open showing their faces, so different. Wide and expansive, black centres pointing like small explosions. Yellow seems a […]
For At Home in the World, the Bagri Foundation is inviting artists, writers, musicians, curators, filmmakers, researchers and academics to submit proposals to be one of five new online public commissions, to be presented across its online platforms.
Collaborative artists Amy Edwards and Rory Duckhouse are starting a new project setting up an online interactive gallery space to fill the current creative void. We want to create a community focused project space that explores work created in isolation.
Absolutely Cultured are accepting proposals from artists from Hull and the North of England for a new Creative Micro-Commission Programme which offers £350 to creative practitioners from any discipline including visual arts, performance, spoken word, film and sound.
FACT is inviting artists living or working in the North of England to create work during lockdown. The scheme, entitled FACT Together, will offer 10 early-career artists a grant of £1,500 each plus 3 months of support to develop an idea that will be presented online.
An exercise of self-isolation and appropriation, Lowry reimagined in 2020.
Project Name: I am somebody Project Number: DYCP-00217828 Thank you for making an application to Developing Your Creative Practice. Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus-Covid 19 we’re sorry to have to tell you that we are not able […]
Project Name: I am somebody Project Number: DYCP-00217828 Thank you for making an application to Developing Your Creative Practice. Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus-Covid 19 we’re sorry to have to tell you that we are not able to […]
The MCMA staff was asked to pick their favourite piece of art in their own personal “Permanent Collections” to share with you. Rachel Tunnicliffe, Manager of External Affairs, chose “Cambrian Mountains” (2019), an oil on canvas painting by Osian Gwent. […]
Cont’d from last time: “Sadly my frog is definitely, permanently dead.” But maybe my rock is not dead – it just appears to have no life. Some years ago I visited artist Andy Holden’s exhibition, Laws of Motion in a […]
As part of my investigations into the manufacturing environment, I have called upon my good friend and now collaborator Manoli Moriaty to help carry out some sound recordings. The initial intention was to produce sound documentation of the factory floor […]
I attended Incidental Futures: Artist Placement Study Day and Incidental Assembly on the weekend of 13/14 September 2019. The two day even held at South London Gallery marked the culmination of the Incidental Futures programme. Find more information about this […]
Eduardo Paolozzi: Michelangelo’s ‘David’ (?1987) In 1987, Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005) was walking past Harrods in London when he spotted a window dresser setting up a display using a plaster cast of the head of Michelangelo’s David. Apparently on impulse, he borrowed […]
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (ETAT) will launch an open call for proposals for its eighth edition to be held in summer 2021.
sorrel leaves picked 3 April 2020 Plenty of sorrel today, clean leaves without slug and snail holes, good for a mixed salad or steamed with other leaves. Oxalic acid in them means don’t eat too many on their own. They […]
Thursday evening I chatted with two directors of the Supermarket Art Fair about my suggestion for inviting exhibitors, staff, and volunteers to post a ’snap-shot’ of what they are doing the week that they should have been at the fair […]
Well that changed fast didn’t it? All is now on hold. We have made the basic recording, but will need to wait before we can get back into the studio to do backing vocals and small adjustments and to add […]