I’m standing on the beach in the north west of Saint Louis, pulling my shawl tighter around my head as the north atlantic gusts try their best to whip it away. The shoreline is littered with the waste from food […]
Julian Trevelyan’s painted papier-mâché “Horse’s Head” from the Surrealists’ Float at the 1938 May Day Procession. On show at Pallant House Gallery. Prairie King. My recent visit to Pallant House Gallery for the exhibition Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and […]
Six a-n writers – based in London, Hastings, Glasgow and Edinburgh – pick, in no particular order, their top five UK exhibitions of the year.
today is the day …. sadly not for bears and picnics but for me to count up all the opportunities that i made contact with. i set myself the goal of applying to 12 and imaginatively used this in the title […]
In order to complete one of the lower-body sections I need to draw out two feet. I’m not sure about you but hands and feet drawn up entirely from my imagination look like clumpy meat-sticks, as if I feel hands […]
Arts Council England has appointed Darren Henley, current head of Classic FM, as its new chief executive.
DACS has announced that a record 23,000 visual artists and artist estates have claimed almost £5 million through the Payback royalties scheme this year.
Thinking about what my conversation with B today. The taking in of something for a brief second and then being able to bring it back out in image format. Also the use of naiveity and amateurish in work. Also B […]
My residency at Airspace Gallery is moving into its fifth month and getting ever closer to my Solo show which will be held on the 16th – 24th January 2015. Trip to London In November I spent a few days […]
Hello my A-N friends, I am wondering if it is at all possible to manipulate digital images on an iPad? I am not looking for all the bells and whistles of photoshop; simply just to be able to prepare images […]
Enjoying carving individual blades of grass today (and loosing my sanity)… I realised yesterday that I can use Photoshop to work out roughly what the image will look like, which has been a massive help after all the billboard visualisation […]
Week 15 artists in attendance 13 The artists love abstraction it so much they want to carry it on into the new year. Well I’m flabbergasted!! Last week I reminded them that there were only 2 weeks left until the […]
As part of a year-long research programme exploring how artists and academics have worked together, Castlefield Gallery is hosting a discussion event exploring the approaches artists take to working in higher education. Plus, a-n is offering writer bursaries to enable two artists to attend the event and report back.
The collection is growing and visual themes are emerging. Collage Line neutral larger board Line colour larger board Line neutral/ collections on board Line B&W mini board Line colour plus B&W mini Line Neutral + colour + shape and words […]
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As children we would visit artists and artists would visit us; it was part of the ebb and flow of our lives. They rarely said they were artists because they mostly came as mothers and fathers and we played with […]
I’ve been working on an article for Workbox Magazine about cross-stitch as contemporary art, and I recently gave a talk at the Hack Circus Christmas Party about my project, and putting what I’m doing into words has been a really […]
Lynn has finished editing her footage of Greenham Common which she shot during our last visit there. We are going to meet to discuss it very soon, now that the sounds and the images are together. Our meeting with Lucy […]
So I am a ‘mature’ (33yrs) Art & Design student in my 2nd year at University. I am thoroughly enjoying my course and very slowly establishing what kind of practitioner I am – a ‘Mixed Media and Textile artist’. I would love to chat to other students or artists!
a new installation across a series of rooms by London-based artist; until 8th January 2015
I made the choice to lower the level of detail on the forground, as I don’t want to take away from the sharp focus of the characters. But I’m finding that the foreground is hard to visualise as I work. […]
