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2015 Absolut Art Award reveals finalists
The international artists and writers nominated for the biennial Absolut Art Award have been announced.
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Untitled blog post from "Procrastinations of a working man."
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 […]
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Luc Tuymans and Plagiarism. Are we all guilty?
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 […]
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Copyright & Moral Right Infringement on the Web: My art stolen by a porn site!!!
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 […]
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artisntdead
rethinking about art
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Staff fight back over proposed Dulwich Picture Gallery redundancies
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.
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Art in pieces
I had in mind the same subject with a few year late. Everything is everything.
Review
‘Artists Working within Higher Education’
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?’.
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries: 2015 selectors announced
The annual open exhibition for final year undergraduates and recent postgraduates announces the three artists who will be selecting work for the 2015 show.
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Interesting stuff
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Untitled blog post from "Procrastinations of a working man."
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 […]
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Cassandra’s Rant
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Wales
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26.01.15 Art and Text
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 […]
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Ink on paper
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 […]
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Exhibition opening and travelling in China
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 […]
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Tate reveals BP sponsorship figures after three-year legal battle
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.
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Blogs as a way of organising thoughts
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 […]
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Stephen West awarded Arts Council of Wales research grant
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 […]
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£10,000 prize celebrates ‘art in the elements’
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’.
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Updated profile and added my collection
I’ve just updated my profile and added a collection of my work.
With the demise of HandmakeMe I’ve added Etsy to my list of online shops.
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Digital Utopias: discussion, debate and sharing of data
Digital Utopias was a one-day conference in Hull organised by Arts Council England that set out to create debate about how new technologies are enabling creativity across the arts. Richard Taylor reports from the 2017 City of Culture.
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Screenprinting on Fabric
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London
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NOW SHOWING #80: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s recommendations find us rock-star gazing in London, contemplating resistance in Manchester, and appreciating the work of two of Jeremy Deller’s heroes in Oxford.
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Artist Talk – Wokingham Town Hall
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Dementia bookcase…… the good, the bad and the completed
So this week I finally finished my piece for the touring dementia exhibition and also the first piece of my MA collection. Yes, rather than one amazingly, orgasmic piece de resistance I decided to produce a body for my MA […]