I am lucky to count among my friends: Talented women Strong women Funny women Triumph over adversity women Clever women Hard working women Quietly getting on with it women Noisy life and soul women Stoic women Unflappable women I know […]
So today I visited the Art college at Xiamen University. The instructions for how to get there were (in usual China style) “You see that big white building over there,” pointing from the street at the university campus, to one […]
Today I’m aiming to complete a human torso. I’m naturally finding that any open areas feel right when I pack them with details akin to previous works. In the 2 example works I gave a few posts ago, I was […]
Need some wigs and maybe some more props and clothes to dress up. Along with makeup. Like a little girl playing. Immediate thought is Cindy Sherman. Need to lose the monotone or perhaps that is part of the mediocre.
Time to start again. But where do I go. Seen the steel, grey sky against the light gold corn with the green hedges criss-crossing. Another landscape scene to be done but left wanting. Or a domestic scene. A little itouch […]
Tell me about yourself, he said? I really haven’t got much to tell; you know the normal domestic scene (I wonder if he’s even interested?) (No. I want to talk about me and all I am interested about you is […]
Profiles, blogs and commentary on artists working beyond the UK or bringing their perspectives to UK working.
Glasgow-based filmmaker Duncan Campbell has been announced winner of the 2014 Turner Prize.
Today we had an artist talk with Miranda Whall who lectures fine art at Aberystwyth. She discussed her current project called “Passage” and showed us a 22 minute film of the work. I was interested in her comments about collaboration […]
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Using cut-ups of old work to create some new layouts and projecting them up to human scale! Laying out; I’m imagining the blocks like those paper dolls where you can change the clothes heads etc. So all of the components […]
I am visual artist based in Istanbul/Turkey. My artwork is ranging from painting to drawing, installation and video..I was living and working in Istanbul. Just 8 days past I moved in Uk. It was quite long time (since 2010) that […]
The Museums Association’s Cuts Survey 2014 reveals that more public collections are at risk following the negative impact that four years of cuts have had on the sector.
This week’s selection includes a show in Llandudno that links the act of breathing with the gesture of drawing a line, works dealing with authorship and identity in Salisbury, and a theatrical exploration of an imagined relationship between Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in Sheffield.
Me and Cosmo are walking along a very straight wide track in the woods and I can see a small group of people in the far distance and it takes quite a while before we will get there. But you […]
A formative residency in Ullapool North West Scotland produce a set of bizarre costumed characters combining elements of ‘wild’ animals, outdoor sports fabrics and equipment. Through conversations with people in Ullapool I developed the opinion that you were “as likely […]
Brand new Gallery in Huddersfield, Unit 9 Gallery, a brand new space. I have a painting up in there, Rusted Revolutions, part of the Chaos Agriculture series.
The Gallery is at : Unit 9, Market Avenue, Huddersfield, HD1 2BB
Having proposed this project some time ago, I was equally delighted and terrified to discover I had been awarded funding- so I now have to carry it out! (Many thanks to ACE!) Off-Press/Printing Restraint has come about from two distinct […]
‘Off-press’ gigantic scale relief printmaking- against all odds.
A challenging investigation into new contemporary ways of working with analogue print media, involving the large-scale construction of gigantic hand-made woodcut prints in vivid colour.
After the opening of Tangled Yarns, a lot of my friends and artist colleagues were asking: Are you enjoying all this free time that you have now? Are you taking a holiday? – Well, not quite. November was packed with […]
It’s the final push for my crowd funding appeal, as it ends tomorrow. I’ve been working hard every day since 20th October promoting the project, and I’m now tired and burnt out. There is still a fair bit of money […]
Working in Cornwall within my domestic role.
