Initiate your own peer sessions. In 2014 I joined contemporary art group ARTEL, we exhibit annually on a theme. Last year: ‘Raw – reflections on the aftermath of war’. This June – ‘Possessed’. Our first peer critique will be 29 […]
I had been looking at artist residencies as a way to invest in my practice, to give me time and space with mentor support to develop my practice. But I am limited because I can’t drop everything and go live […]
What can be done instead with £1000 in one year
The Belgian painter Luc Tuymans has been found guilty of plagiarism by a court in Antwerp after using a photograph of a right-wing politician as inspiration for a painting.
Here are some experimentation pieces I have created whilst trying to develop a deeper understanding of my practice. There is a recurring theme of pattern making developed from the landscapes that surround me. I respond to the patterns with sculpture, […]
Songbook, the much anticipated photobook from leading photographer Alec Soth, chronicles the solitary experiences of Americans through a blend of lyrical portraits and empty landscapes. Tim Clark considers the images of those longing for connection in an era of virtual networks.
The last two days I have been hand making my own canvases. I hadn’t done this before and it was very difficult but well worth it I am very pleased with the results and plan to make more in the […]
I’m keeping my fingers crossed about using certain studio space in Abergavenny that I have found…in a few weeks I should know if it’s a definite maybe! This is core to building momentum in my practice. I wrote myself very […]
Does anyone else out there ever feel like there are just not enough days in a week for studio time and artistic admin, let alone family time and normal domestic chores? Last spring I wrapped up work at my husband’s […]
Someone asked me or maybe they told me, I can’t now quite remember how it was phrased… “Funding makes you lazy” First off, that made me a bit cross…. Anyone who has completed an ACE application form, successfully or otherwise […]
Film making workshop at Holy Cross school with Bob Moyler. http://youtu.be/1G0gQvZTCGE Pupils talk from the future about their latest inventions: “The DNA Combiner” spins fruits together at a high speed and temperature to create new exotic fruits without the need […]
I managed to catch Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery last week. I might have missed it had not been for my mother’s insistence we go and see it and I am so glad I did. The prints […]
Having so far spent about half of this project carving baskets, I am delighted to say that after a further 5 days behind the curtain, the last main basket object is done, and inking up is just around the corner! […]
Art Map London’s new project is Free Spaces, a directory of alternative venues for art. We speak to Art Map’s Jenny Judova about the new online initiative.
I have always been interested in space and mindfulness. I like the thought of space that there is more to the world that what is around me as society norms often depresses me, when I think that we are all […]
One of the Artists I looked at was Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner’s works are recognised as being the most successful at capturing the effect of boundlessness. Joseph Mallord William Turner: The Devils Bridge, St Gotthard: (1803-4) Media: Oil on […]
What a week of bickering! You would think there was an election looming or something of the sort. The question is; will our dear prime minister enter the ‘big house’ reality TV show or not? Mind you, I can fully […]
I started to put some more layers of paint on my series of canvases. It became quite a dunting task trying to paint them all at once and they started to loose their individuality. I decided that it would be […]
Our series looking at Digital R&D Fund visual arts initiatives continues with NetPark, a project instigated by Metal in Southend-on-Sea and produced by artist and curator Simon Poulter.
Richard returned with a van full of wood. We decided to plane it down using a machine planner, and to rough it up, using a wire brush attachment, for the disk grinder. For this project, I kept all the Dates… […]
While I was in Ipswich Hospital suffering a severe Stroke, about a week after I had it, I felt my time on this planet was all over. My right arm, which I did all of my previous work with, was […]
This is the article that was put onto the Ipswich Hospital Website Art student’s determination to succeed 4th February 2014 Art student Alex Osborne was just 25 and in the third year of his art degree when he suffered a […]
