This week’s selection of must-see UK shows stretches from Nestor Armando Gil in Exeter to Alasdair Gray in Glasgow, with detours to London and the North East along the way.
I wanted to write a little about my post graduate experiences and the struggle to maintain any practice at all whilst running a more conventional life with a nine to five job as well as a young family. I want […]
A journal detailing the struggles, efforts and results of post graduate life for a would be artist.
I’m taking a pause on the baskets, and focusing on backgrounds, foregrounds and sky. My main stylistic reference materials for this project (medieval wood-cuts and engravings), generally have no sky at all, and only texture and line to delineate a […]
50 minute run completed this evening – Grid training. I need to take some basic waterproof gear to The Island after walking through the river at the foot of Snaefell in 2012. I’ll consider taking a holy staff this time […]
my artist statement has been something on an elusive collecton of words. in considering it i’ve wanted to say something yet still retain a certain level of maintaining something for a viewer. for some time i’ve had my statement expressed […]
There’s so much to do to get ready for our Open Studio at The Place on Tuesday. A new compilation of video footage of our experimentation in the studio and the only event where Hannah will be dancing live in […]
Project continues Monday…
I have decided to paint a series of Wild Flower paintings, This one it the second in the series it it smaller than the last one, the next one will be the same size. I am thinking of putting these […]
Meanwhile, away from the nine women, life goes on… The funding is going to be great, but I do need to earn money after that. If I removed myself from the possibility of other earning for the duration of the […]
AUDIO BLOG – Click here I’ve been shopping. Not Christmas shopping though. I wasn’t part of the crowd that rushed to pick up the free vegetable peeler in Debenhams. I wasn’t part of the argument and vehicle denting that […]
R.B. KITAJ (1932–2007), La Pasionaria, 1969 So finally I made it to Pallant House Gallery to view Conscience and Conflict. A much anticipated viewing of any exhibition always runs the gauntlet of anti-climax, but there was no such trouble at […]
I am delighted to have recently had several of my works published in the University of Texas at Dallas annual arts journal, Reunion: The Dallas Review. My work was chosen for the front and back cover as well as an […]
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about my work and it’s left me feeling stuck. I am at a point now where I have started to pick apart my practice and really begin to understand what my artistic concerns […]
An exploration of why I do the things that I do. I aim to undertake a regular studio practice and to document it here, in order to investigate what elements of my work are important and what I’m drawn to aesthetically and thematically.
There is something I’ve not talked about much which is actually so very important in describing my experience here as a whole; The way I feel about Xiamen. I absolutely love it here and although I am only half of […]
In addition to notions of DIY and self-publishing, Nick Thurston’s talk (which was discussed in last week’s blog) also explored themes of media theory and digital distribution. After detailing his recent exhibitions and publications, Thurston continued to contextualise his practice […]
I visited today the Potteries museum to see the space in which Sam and I would be exhibiting as part of The Artist and the City exhibition. We also had the opportunity to visit the museum stores where ‘The Pit’ […]
While strategies to pay artists better are forging ahead in the UK, this vital issue is also on high on the agenda in some other countries. Susan Jones reports on Working Artists: aspects of art and labour, a recent conference in South Korea which she also spoke at.
Lowcs International has awarded commissions to two artists, Liam Aitken and Rich White, following the Swansea-based organisation’s second annual Public Art Open Submission competition.
James has just finished an MA in Critical Writing at the Royal College of Art.Previously he completed a BA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. (Before he talked to fine art students he joined in with our Christmas […]
AUDIOBLOG – Click Here Last night was the end of term Songwriters’ Circle Showcase. I sang “Invisibility is not a Super-Power” I wrote the lyrics, Simon Coverdale wrote the music. For the performance, Simon played acoustic guitar, Dave Sutherland played […]
