The last of our three Open Studios will be at Metal in Peterborough on the evening of Thursday 29 January. We have a Time and Space Residency at Metal between 27 and 31 January and will be installing work emerging […]
On 15 January I’m taking part in a Future Network event at Metal in Peterborough. I will be talking about the work that I’ve been doing with Darren alongside dancer Kate Marsh. Kate is currently on a Time and Space […]
We were delighted that about 40 people came to the Open Studio at The Place, and nearly all stayed for the discussion chaired by Dr Veronica Sekules, Head of Education and Research, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. The mix of […]
Twitter campaign defending free speech and expressing solidarity with murdered journalists at Charlie Hebdo grows, as Parisians plan rally and Salman Rushdie issues statement of support.
Putting Tracey To Bed. (Part 2.) Tracey Emin My Bed.1999 My Bed is a piece of conceptual art, which means that the idea is the most important thing about it. It belongs in the category of Abject […]
An ocasional diary of writing, making, painting and processing.
Aims for 2015 Have a dedicated studio space Build going to lectures and giving talks into year Go out of my area to see art twice a month (book ahead!) Aims for January Train self to get up at 615am […]
It was really useful to install work and and showcase emerging ideas at The Place in December. At the first Open Studio we installed work in my house and studio, where the research workshops had been held, and it felt […]
11 hours of hard labour in about a minute of high speed footage, ending with the pips of midnight on the radio! (I cut out all the swearing too)
i’m having a making day today. yum tiddly tum. yeah so ‘m having a making day and i’m having a bit of a block so have resorted to making via writing. writing affords me the space to create from my […]
Andy Sewell’s self published Something like a Nest reveals the unique yet odd appearance of the English countryside when it comes up against modern life. Tim Clark celebrates the book’s quiet sophistication in the first PICTURED column of 2015.
After a healthy break of a couple of weeks, I’m now finding it hard to get back into routines, as I’m sure most people are. One particular routine I had hoped to pick up was the plate-spinning exercise of social […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Having said all I need is a mic and a macbook, Dan arrived on the first recording day with what seemed like a truck-load of stuff crammed tetris-style into the back of a Nissan […]
or; my relationship with sketchbooks.
Former Tate Modern and Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Nicholas Cullinan is to take over from Sandy Nairne as director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
December has been rather taken up by travel, family visits and Christmassy things, hence a bit quiet on the blog front… Well, nothing like another event to get me to focus again on Tangled Yarns! I’ll be giving an artist talk at […]
for the last six months i’ve been recording electricity demand on the first monday of the month. i have no idea how i’ll use the data. for now i’m recording and that’s as far as it goes. i find it […]
Since completing several pieces of work recently – mostly drawing from older source material I have found myself at a point where although the work is flowing freely I feel I need to conduct some research into subjects I consider […]
Open exhibitions are becoming an increasingly common aspect of the visual arts landscape, with high-profile big hitters such as the BP Portrait Award and Royal Academy Summer Show joined by a growing number of smaller-scale shows. But with most charging an entry fee and with no guarantee of being included, are artists simply being asked to subsidise the sector with their own money? Jack Hutchinson investigates.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s happening fast, now we’ve started, so it is hard to know where to start! Two days of recording then… I want to try to get down what I’ve learned as I go along. This […]
Over the past couple of months I have serendipitously stumbled upon a couple of artist talks while visiting galleries. They have reminded me how important such events are for my own artistic development. Reading is great, but there is definitely […]
For the past year I have been working to push my practice and develop as an artist. I have been jokingly calling this period a self-directed MA. I am currently undertaking a residency at Ruthin Craft Centre. This project is supported by the Arts Council of Wales.
So today has been a bit of a mish mash and has, like the Presley song, “sent my temperature rising”, but not I feel, for the same reason as Presley. In fact I am so miffed that I decided to […]
