This week’s selection includes a show in Walsall featuring seven artists who work with found imagery, a solo presentation of work by the Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser in Edinburgh, and a Sheffield-based artist group at PAPER in Manchester.
The Spode Factory in Stoke is to be converted into a hub for artists as part of a £700,000 scheme following Art Council England’s wider investment in cultural venues across the Midlands.
Oh dear starting to get a little concerned, last week we had a visit from some masters students from the RSA, in the morning they gave a very interesting insight to what it is like to be a MA student […]
An artist never gets a day off, I am full of cold and yet I have had a number of projects to deal with. Being self-employed means when I am ill I have to plan and utilise my time effectively. […]
Explaining the Process of this Vase series The process for this vase series is made up of the same way as the previous series of vases that I printed only this time I am using the reversal print instead of […]
was born in 1957 in Qazvin , Iran and left her country to study art in the United states at the age of seventeen. Shirin is a video and installation artist who explores political and social problems of Iranian and […]
I’m just going to dive in all guns blazing and hit you with the good stuff. As a direct result of getting the a-n Re:view bursary last year I’m now finally on the right road to making a short film. It was […]
once I have been told to write about our blog. I started to think and write in Arabic way then translated to English. In my blog I decided to use Arabic writing as translation of my English . In my […]
Artists research Mona Hatoum is Lebanese artist. she was born in Beirut in 1952, she came to London in 1975 for a short visit but decided to stay because of the war (Brett,1997,p4). i inspired by her art work . […]
Having spent a period of residence in Egypt, I brought new drawing performances to London’s Shubbak Festival of Arts from the Arab world. I would like to thank the Arts Council of England and Gudran for Art and Development in […]
Opening event. Great launch with great people
This is just a thought at the moment, but if in the degree show, the paintings are presented as an assemblage, like a vomit of personal thought, then why stop at paintings, why not add objects which personify femininity, motherhood […]
Toilet ladies as a theme was something I have stolen from just typing in feminism images in Google. There is one with a toilet lady with her hands in the air, as if asking ‘why’. It is funny and […]
Berlin 23rd to 26th February 2015 I am just back from my first visit to the city of Berlin to take in the sights and soak up the art scene. It did not disappoint. We walked for miles and hours, […]
I am still not sure how to finish my large painting so I am “wrapping” it. Just the process of laying out the paper and moving the painting onto it is very thought provoking. All sorts of ideas are bubbling […]
Pencil drawing on paper It took me less than 15 minutes to make a drawing on the paper. For me the pencil marks are the ‘bones’ on which to lay the ink on. I didn’t want to make a drawing […]
I have found a roll of thick stencil acrylic sheets and want to experiment by painting the surface with dark paint and then scratch away and sand a little and see what is revealed. It seems to have evolved into […]
Another piece of work that I made last year was investigating covering or wrapping a small stone angel with a piece of chamois leather and it was probably the first step of the journey to where I find my working […]
