Packing from a parcel had a wonderful texture. I reminded me of coconut matting and I used it to to describe a wrapped form. Its only small but is a very tactile and interesting piece of work. Kathryn Raffell, 2015, […]
Do you know the one thing I hate most about being an artist and arts organiser? Well even if you don’t I am going to tell you as this is my blog so n’uh n’uh n’uh n’uh n’uh PAPERWORK and […]
I went to Metal in Peterborough to meet dancer Kate Marsh and see what she is doing on a Time and Space residency, as part of her G4A funded research. She is working with dancer Kelly O’Brien to start to […]
A selection of Drawings that i have done for children. I really like them because they are so colourful and bright easy for children to look at and understand. These drawings were done late 2013 but they are still really […]
A comparison between the two painters currently on show and their approach to landscape painting
Every week, a-n’s members post details of events and exhibitions across the UK on the site’s Events listings section. In the first of a new weekly series, we pick some of the highlights from the next seven days.
since wednesday i’ve been contemplating the success paradox. so what do i mean by this? the key component is the success paradox bit …. and wednesday. wednesday was notification day for a video showing thing i’d submitted to. i was […]
This is the place for Dex Hannon of the Broken Toy Company.
Last year I was contacted by Calvendo to produce a calendar of my photography. It gave me the opportunity to promote my work in a different way. It was also a lot of fun. Well worth giving a go.
the high street minister visited belper today and i was lucky enough to meet her. ok so it was very short in so much as i was there to assist chris so my meeting was as long as it took […]
In an attempt to focus one little stream of consciousness, in the gully of Artists’ Newsletter! My own wider and deeper Jenny Meehan Artist’s Journal on Wordpress tends to work as a note taking device and splays pretty much everywhere. So this blog aims for a narrower course!
I have started on a series of paintings which I hope will have a feeling of continuity. When i concentrate on one painting at a time, my differing mood and psychological preoccupations mean that each painting can be quite different […]
After hearing artist Dr Nicky Bird speak about her work Question for Seller at the Leeds Artist Book Fair in March, I thought it would be useful to meet her for a tutorial. Dr Bird was the first person to graduate […]
Hello all I am making a piece of video and considering using a version of the theme tune to Dr Zhivago. Its not the original Hollywood version that I am hoping to use. The length of the music is approximately […]
Damn it! I might have to go and read a book or two. I have discovered myself twice in the last few weeks, assuming the role of teacher again. That snuck up on me. That whole questioning thing… Prompting thought […]
Producer and writer Carolyn Black has worked in the visual arts for over two decades. Having witnessed many ups and downs in the sector, she believes things have never been so bad for artists in the UK. It’s time, she says, for things to change…
” The purpose of art is not to mediate a shuttling back and forth between radically opposed and mutually exclusive domains of mind and world, inhabited respectively by images and objects, but rather to bind mind and world in an […]
My response to a series of broadcasts by Philospher Roger Scruton on what he percieves as real art and what he sees as fake art.
I’m Obsessed with skyscrapers, their beautiful design and striking facade really wow me. I think just how amazing feats of engineering they are built to impress the people who see them and show off a countries wealth. For Christmas i […]
As a student about to commence the final semester of my degree in Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices, the fear has most definitely set in. As I am deeming it: the decent into the void of uncertainty. As a student […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Today seems to be a not-making day so far. Today is a facilitating the making sort of day. I was woken by my phone, I was bleary and incoherent, the Travis Perkins man asked […]
It’s one of those dog walks that are really just a chore. It’s cold quite blustery with rain sort of coming and going from time to time. It’s unpleasant, not bad. This makes no difference to Cosmo in the slightest, […]
my post today is a thinking out loud prior to making a descision. my race isn’t with demons, if it were the thoughts would be privately published in a password protected page … the racing demons reference is a bit […]
