Todays drawing
I have started a new drawing unit where i will be experimenting with different techniques. so i thought the best way to start the project was to do a drawing in the style i work in and then refer back […]
I have started a new drawing unit where i will be experimenting with different techniques. so i thought the best way to start the project was to do a drawing in the style i work in and then refer back […]
An account of Warhol’s ability to remain on point so long as everything stays the same.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here *Sigh* I can be a bit of a liability if truth be known… This afternoon I had an interview about nine women on a local radio station. I was witty and erudite I’m sure… I […]
One of the difficulties in a multipurpose workshop concerns the buffeting clutter of different things. Out for a ride, back to my workshop, rush in with bike and cycling gear, brush up against drawing, damage it – hours of work […]
Chosen from over 400 applicants, Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts have announced the three artists who will each receive £5000 to develop new work.
The international artists and writers nominated for the biennial Absolut Art Award have been announced.
If I am being honest I have no idea if there is any kind of “blog etiquette” on the frequency and/or quality of the posts published but I do know writing possibly inane posts helps massively with my practice. I […]
After reading the news this week that Luc Tuymans was found guilty of plagiarism I started to consider my own practice, and that of other major artist concerning the use of previous images, made by photographers and painters, to create […]
I recently found out that my Wrestling Women series of paintings, etchings and woodcuts that I did as part of my undergraduate art degree have been stolen by an internet porn site, and there is nothing I can bloody do […]
rethinking about art
Front-of-house staff at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London have launched a petition in protest at a raft of proposed redundancies at the 200-year-old gallery.
I had in mind the same subject with a few year late. Everything is everything.
Key thoughts and themes from the one-day discursive event as part of the AHRC funded research project ‘Co-producing legacy: What is the role of artists within Connected Communities projects?’.
The annual open exhibition for final year undergraduates and recent postgraduates announces the three artists who will be selecting work for the 2015 show.
With the RA summer show deadline looming I am trying to decide what to submit? I’m confident I can finish a new piece within this period but I am also pondering refining an existing piece as I have several as […]
Today I started my research. I have started with Art and Text which starts with 3 academic essays and takes you through the types of text art. This will give me a far greater understanding of the historical context of […]
Free of all that carving malarkey, I am currently testing out inks and fluidity (many thanks to Mark Carr for his pointers on this). I’d previously been sealing the wood with waterproof PVA, and many of my peers apparently use […]
It feels like my exhibition opening happened so long ago because immediately afterwards I went travelling with Andy for 10 days. We went back to Shanghai, but this time we mostly did the sights rather than the Art, except for […]
Tate has released figures showing the level of sponsorship it has received from BP from 1990 up to the end of 2006, following a three-year legal battle by campaigners.
I recently completed a distance MA fine art through the Open College of the Arts, which was a long FOUR years, during which much of it was recorded through an electronic blog – the assignments plus all the reflective thinking […]
Great! – I have been awarded £3000 from Arts Council of Wales to help me with research, investigating, travelling in order to find out more about Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s time in Cardiff in 1909 up to his sudden death in France […]
The winners of The Arts Foundation’s annual awards will be announced later this week, with this year’s fine art category throwing a spotlight on artists who make objects, interventions and installations out in ‘the elements’.