Drifting into mid afternoon on my day off, with an untouched ‘opportunity’ printed off and ready to peruse. Can’t be bothered though. My enthusiasm for raising any sort of income from my own work is fast deteriorating. Still no outcome […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s a complicated business, the spinning of plates… Form filling, finance balancing, paper work straightening, diary keeping… they all take up time. Thinking about theories and concepts and how things fit together does too. When […]
I’m not sure how to think about this new element that has crept into my work – colour. Colour – this is a perfectly natural part of…no essential part of most artwork to some degree. For me I have avoided […]
Andy Broadey I Frances Richardson
with text by Suzana Milevska
Week 4 Instagram Exhibition Image “My sensations were strange. Let me explain them. When I was a child, I will remember a similar circumstance that befell me…”
New Art West Midlands Artists tour of the exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Friday 27th February 2015. The tour was given by two of the participating artists Jade Simpson and Vicky Roden http://vickyroden.com/with curator Lisa Beauchamp. I have […]
On 8th Feb blog I listed some ideas on how I thought I could explore the direction of my work further. One of these was to “wrap” a canvas and tear away part of the wrapping to reveal the canvas […]
This is an image of an object. The object is material. The material supports an image. The image forms in a medium. The medium is material. The image of the object is material. The material of the image is […]
it’s very rare for me to have an evening where getting to sleep is a problem. i still don’t yet understand why but last night was one of those evenings. the evening wasn’t particularly different. there’s a family ritual that […]
Woke up with another idea. It was there all the time. I’ve seen and studied this picture ages ago which could be a reason why the mugshots interest me. I should explain. M-G-M Studios, test photographs (1938) George Hommel, studio […]
In this set of works I have focused on working on the beach using sand. I began feeling like I was going through a creative block. To bring myself out of this stage I looked at landscape photos I had […]
In The Anatomy of Disgust (Miller, 1997) Miller denotes that disgust is derived from two key areas accordingly: whether the feeling of disgust involves the emission of any raw bodily matter, or, from a disgusting smell, sound or sight. The […]
Manchester’s FutureEverything festival this year celebrates 20 years of exploring digital culture. Luke Healey reports on the festival’s performance-based visual arts strand which included work from Memo Akten, Emmanuel Biard and Blast Theory.
In a stroke, the blood supply to part of your brain is cut off.There are two types of stroke: ischemic – when a clot blocks the artery in your brain; and hemorrhagic – when the artery pops and the blood […]
So its coming up to the end of my residency at Airspace. Very kindly the gallery let me stay on for two months longer, which has been invaluable in terms of really seeing the impact of living in the city […]
WEEK 20 an email i recieved…… Dear Trae, Thank you for organising today’s visit. It was very challenging looking at so many different exhibits/installations and styles. Very thought-provoking. I am glad we did not have time to see everything! Hopefully […]
I’ve been looking at the work of Marlene Dumas. Her paintings have a dark, uneasy feel about them. She captures the fragility of the person she is painting but also reveals a disturbing and unnerving aspect to their personality. For […]
Moving on from covering the original canvas in a dark colour I wanted to explore if the effect and narrative of the image changed by using a white to partially obscure the original portrait. When I started to paint over […]
Want to see how I create my drawings, in the studio? View this short film and watch the progress of abstract drawing, Variable #29.
A low cost way to prevent calluses in under 60 seconds! Lots of drawing can cause painful hard skin on your hands where the pencil rests and rubs the finger. Here is a quick and easy way to prevent calluses on […]
With one of the Mannequins, I decided to fit Fishnet Stockings onto them. They would be reminiscent to the Stockings I wore in Hospital…
These are some pictures from Katarzyna Konieczka Facebook page. They are there to inspire me…
Our busy Events section features events and exhibitions posted by a-n members. We pick five highlights from the next seven days, including shows in Gloucester, Eastbourne and Ramsgate.
