Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
Planning for my (Virtual Mah-jong House – Life’s A Long Game) Here are some drawings that I wanted to add to show my planning and how this helped me for setting up my installation of my Mah-jong and how this […]
“Repugnance is the sentry standing right near the door to those things we desire most.”1 In this essay I wish to explore two artworks whose themes and aesthetics are not obviously comparable; Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali’s In Voluptas Mors […]
The Virtual Mah-jong House-Life’s A Long Game Whilst on my last summer visit in china, I stayed at my girlfriends best friend’s house in Wen Zhou south of China where she wanted me and my girlfriend’s help to renovate […]
I am making a start on the aspects of society that I try and escape from. Some idea’s I will be looking at are gender discrimination, CCTV, our existence: to work and be part of the corporate world. Work, Buy, […]
These are some of my favourite pieces of art work I have created during my art studies.
Here are some experimental pieces I have been working on using photo’s of landscapes I have taken myself and cut outs from magazines/newspapers of buildings and people. I wanted to convey the idea of the busy urbanised world which is […]
One of the criteria to achieve doctoral status is the production of new knowledge. For Practice Based Research in Art this includes the possibility of exploring new methods of research as well as the creation of new artistic works. In […]
I want to carry on with the residential estates theme so our walk with Cosmo today is what we call the normal walk, but I will walk a little further along the sea front to Sea View Holiday Park. This […]
The images I mentioned in my last post, from André Singer’s Night Will Fall, remain so very much and overwhelmingly alive in me, that I haven’t been able to watch any of the other programmes I recorded around Holocaust Memorial […]
Keeping with the black and white theme, i chose this image online and altered it by using Photoshop, creating this graffiti effect. I do admire graffiti although it doesn’t usually go hand in hand with the female nude. The style […]
A campaign against proposals to close the ceramics department at City and Islington College has gained the support of Turner Prize-winning potter Grayson Perry.
This is a drawing that i created from a picture that i found online, it may not be an extreme muscular women but i felt a connection with the image as soon as i saw it. I like […]
The bright, bold, wild and wonderful world of my interpretation of fine art.
17 March 2015 – 21 June 2015 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Art, dance and movement in London 1911–1915 “Sculpture consists in placing planes according to a rhythm” Gaudier-Brzeska, 1911 2015 marks 100 years since Henri Gaudier-Brzeska died aged 23 in the First […]
This piece was another experiment with water colour. I only focused on one fish in this pice as i wanted to add more detail than previous work. simple blue wash in the back ground creates movement of the fish.
This piece was one of my first experiments with water colour. simple brush strokes and lines were used to create the fish.
A review of the Dutch painter Marlene Dumas’ new exhibition entitled The Image as Burden
I’m looking for a comic artist -& web-comic artist to speak to about a project – could someone get in touch please
We were meant to see a performance by Wicked Fish Theatre in Liverpool Museum last Saturday but went on the wrong day! However went with S to Tate Liverpool for an evening visit and saw two Gaudier-Brzeska works on view […]
