My exploration of bold pattern against skin continue. This piece was finished a while ago and I am pleased with the way colour mixes work and clash at the same time. Really pleased with one of the hands but the […]
Excellent opportunity to showcase your work in our Summer exhibition, with a £15k prize fund and the potential to become this year’s winner…
we made our go and see visit to grizedale to see and experience the sculpture and to research what it was like to work outdoors. there were numerous circumstances that influenced the visit to take place in mid September. the weather […]
I don’t often go to work these days. By go to work, I mean arrive at a certain place by a certain time and stay as long as someone else expects me to. This doesn’t mean I’m not happy to […]
Here the Saharan breeze is accompanied with a flocking of fine sand particles that seem to settle in every mechanical and organic crevice. I begin to sweep the sand from my room and break out in a sweat. Such a […]
It’s open studios at my Yorkshire Artspace studio building this weekend (Exchange Place, Sheffield), and I have a pop-up exhibition called The Sea. The sea is a subject which I keep coming back to. It fascinates me because it […]
the review is ready to go ! and i find myself wanting to make the most of pressing the create and publish button. i know from experience that when i’ve published something and then spent time promoting it i’ve […]
Alberto Lizaralde’s self-published book, everything will be ok, is an intensely private journey through grief, hope and recovery. Nominated for this year’s Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award and co-edited by celebrated photographer Cristina De Middel, it’s quickly turning heads – Tim Clark’s included.
Dear friends of the arts community! I co-edit ESC Zine – an arts and literary publication that’s been on the go since myself and the two other editors left university in 2011. We’re a self-funded initiative experimenting with the medium […]
14 October – 14 December 2014
making my own opportunity: “the twitter exhibition gives me a short term focus” @andrewsugars http://t.co/aIwpcAPEYk — a-n Blogs (@an_artblogs) November 6, 2014 when this tweet was published it appeared to me that short term meant until the day that […]
Fish farm, theatre on stilts, mushroom basement
I’m driving myself to the studio this morning. Feels like a big improvement! I want to finish wiring this red bra, and put her with her sisters. “It” becomes “she” as completion approaches. Sometimes these pieces that are garments […]
Another group crit this week – the difference being it was with a new set of peers and a different tutor. Whilst I fully appreciate and welcome these opportunities, sometimes I am left a little frustrated at the end. Participation is […]
Texts and profiles of artists who’ve made a difference to the life and times of the visual arts and stand out as role models.
The Turner Prize-winning artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has revealed that his next film will be about the black American singer and activist Paul Robeson.
On being depressed ,promoting one’s self and pursuing a creative path.
Its a must do I often meet my girlfriend at the air port once I have landed in Wen Zhou and then we take the bus ride down to the main city central. Sometimes we might go straight back to […]
WEEK 10 artists in attendance 11 Introducing our first guest Artist…. RIA ROBERTS First of all I would like to again thank everyone at Didsbury Good Neighbours art group for welcoming me and for taking part in the interactive group […]
Following the announcement that Falmouth University is to close three of its BA (Hons) courses, a petition to oppose the closure of the highly respected Contemporary Crafts degree has reached nearly 6,000 signatories.
I thought I should show some more pictures of life here in Xiamen. In fact maybe more pictures in general and less talking this time. It takes ages to upload pictures though and for some reason it is always worse […]
