News
News feature
Embassy’s 10th anniversary: a celebration of its membership
Artist-run Edinburgh space Embassy marks its 10th anniversary with a party, a publication and a new commission. Richard Taylor reports.
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#bsaaff Be Smart About Art First Fridays (December 2014)
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London
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probably the last submission in 2014
with some relief i’ve sent another submission off today. i have no more deadlines this side of the end of decemeber so it’s more than likely the last. the only thing left to do is prepare my accounts. i’m thinking […]
News
News story
Bob and Roberta Smith to run against Michael Gove in general election
The artist Bob and Roberta Smith is to stand against former Education Secretary Michael Gove in his solidly Tory Surrey Heath constituency.
Blog Post
Prototypes
Following the Ullapool residency I began making woodcuts- the prototypes for this project. I tried naively to create multiple colour layers that each needed registration, and I cut holes through the blocks that helped (slightly) to align each layer in […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "Airspace Gallery Graduate Residency"
My painting practice doesn’t have very much of a structure, as pieces don’t have any set course or direction; each addition to a work sets it off in a new path. I’ve recently started making paintings on clay, which has […]
Review
ART IS A GUARANTY OF SANITY – LOUISE BOURGEOIS: WORKS ON PAPER
If as Bourgeois alludes to in a letterpress work that; Art is a guaranty of sanity is true, then it must be said that being an art student is a guarantee of loosing it. Currently on display at Tate Modern […]
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Artist’s Statement: A’s Pealing Sponge
SERVES 10 – 12 FOR THE BASE: 6 x size 1 wooden box, containing pastel pencils 5 oz (150g) paper in muted colours 8 oz (225g) discordant emotions 2oz (50g) acrylic paint, mixed thoroughly 1 silver craft knife 8 oz […]
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Artist
Ink In Area
Excerpts from the blog inkinarea, an experimental, online sketchbook project, created in collaboration with an inspirational, hat-wearing, apple tree watching Canadian writer and poet. View the project at – https://inkinarea.wordpress.com
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04.12.14 Potteries Museum proposal, painting again
I have been really busy this week finishing off the academic work required for the course, the hand-in deadline being tomorrow. I have been busy writing reviews, making up exhibition proposals and working on my artist website (big and small), […]
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Day 4 Fast-Forward
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Baskety
I started laying out for one of the basket heads, that of a goose. When I created a prototype figure for this project a few months ago, I realised that weaving willow and drawing it are very things! All the […]
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Lower Body
Blasted through the legs very quickly using the power carver for much of it.
News
News comment
Craft on the new frontier: confidence and courage required
Crafts Council’s recent Make:Shift conference in London addressed how new technologies are driving innovation in craft practice. Inspired by the two-day event, Mike Press of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design reflects on the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead.
Conversation
Buildings and contents insurance
Hello I wonder if any of you can help me at all? I have had a studio built in my garden for my jewellery business, and am now in need of insurance to cover contents and the structure itself, can […]
Blog Post
Magic and Sparkle?
Quite a few posts back, on Threads, I told of how my mother used to call me “A Contrary Madam”. https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/threads/page/4 (you’ll have to scroll down a couple of posts to find it) I agree. I am, by nature I […]
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Yes, those are my thighs…
Today I’m going to switch over to the legs of this first set of blocks. I have designed these without a crotch (risqué I hear you cry!), so that they can be used upside-down with a variety of tails and […]
Conversation
Community Diaries
I am looking for like-minded community oriented artists, who is interested in social political themes. If you can give some hours on a regular basis to create innovative exciting works, please get in touch. I am looking for passion and […]
Collection
a-n Collections archive
The a-n Collections series originally produced as printed publications with guest editors and themes including from open call for themes and contexts.
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Rural arts and policy
Selected texts, discussions, guides and profiles that address issues around or profile arts taking place in rural contexts.
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Vijay Kumar : Narratives of the Individual and the Mass
Thinking back now to meeting Vijay Kumar in New York City last summer here on a cloudy winter’s day in Wales brings the warmth of summer sun to my spirit. He is a person who possesses an aura of openness, […]
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Day 3 Fast-Forward
Mostly rubbings this time!
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Day 3
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Exhibition
Away by Julie Arkell | Stitch Workshop with Julie Arkell
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Wales
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