
NOW SHOWING #76: Top exhibitions this Christmas
For the final Now Showing selection of 2014, Jack Hutchinson selects shows in Derby, Nottingham, London, Liverpool and Glasgow.
For the final Now Showing selection of 2014, Jack Hutchinson selects shows in Derby, Nottingham, London, Liverpool and Glasgow.
As the year comes to a close in a frenzy of alcohol fuelled commercialism, which most of us either fortunately or unfortunately get dragged into each festive season, I would like to consider two things: artists’ copyright and the plight […]
In the first of our end-of-year series, Rose Wylie – winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2014 – reflects on 12 months that have seen the joy of her achievements tempered by personal loss.
I have recently been accepted for the AA2A (Artists Access to Art Colleges) at Staffordshire University where I have a studio space and access to the facilities. Here I will be showing my experiments during the months I have here.
I’ve been doing some web based research about the derelict cottage (Ballaskella) where the Grid was last located. I came across an interesting snippet about a mystery large black grid guardian dog some time in the 1800’s. ‘A Manx Scrapbook […]
AUDIOBLOG please click here! I took all my new gear to the studio. Once alone, I took a deep breath, then started. I carefully took it all out of the boxes. I assembled the mic stand, figured out the pop […]
I did know all along that three months was not long enough. I’m actually only just over half way through my residency, but I have the remaining time all planned out pretty much, so it feels like it’s gone already. […]
The sheep have been gone a few weeks now, so it thought it time to have a walk over there and see if anything had been going on. First of all, I walked over the part I call the meadow, […]
It’s all getting Christmassy, so this project will continue on the 7th Jan, Seasons Greetings!
Off with yon cloud, old Snafell ! that thine eye Over three Realms (plus Grid) may take its widest range Wordsworth 1833 (inc alteration ) Back to google images this Saturday morning attempting to find the site of the grid. The […]
Since starting my training I have often wondered where feelings reside from within the body and to what degree do they inform our reasoning and decision making. Damasio suggests emotions are inseparable from the idea of reward or punishment or […]
As per usual I travelled hopefully to Hartlepool this week. Hopefully in the sense that I knew it would be worth filming the centenary commemorations to the one hundred and thirty people who lost their lives, with many more wounded, […]
A 10 metre high lightning bolt by artist S Mark Gubb has been unveiled as a new permanent beacon in Cardiff city centre.
Arts Council England has awarded MK Gallery in Milton Keynes nearly £3m towards its major expansion project.
What is real? What is an original in a digital age?
My Solo exhibition ‘O’ opens on the 16th January 2015 running to the 24th at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent Read a little about the forthcoming show on Airspace Gallery’s website:http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/o_naomi_harwin
Darren and I had great support from staff at The Place – on the Monday evening a technician prepared the Founders Stuio. He put up the projector, lighting and a back cloth and two scaffold poles were tensioned from floor […]
As if to reinforce my current state of mind, and my attitude towards the coming year, I made a discovery… In a fit of pre-christmas-visitor tidying, I came across the notebook I had used in the meeting I had with […]
Inspired by its location on a busy junction along Essex Road, north London, Tintype gallery is hosting eight newly commissioned film works in its window space over the holiday season. Gallery director Teresa Grimes and artists Suki Chan and George Eksts explain.
So the drawing is pushing on, albeit at a painstakingly slow pace, I often wonder now whilst I work why I put myself up for this kind of self inflicted torture whilst peering through a magnifying glass? However, the answer […]
Visiting Artists 3 www.beckynuttall.com One summer in the early sixties, three children travelled approximately 1,400 miles in the back of a mini to visit an artist. In the grove the artist was installing a sculpture exhibition. The children and their […]