Dear friends and colleagues! 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 of the […]
There is so much you can do on this course – crits, lectures, tutorials, openings, participation, etc. I sometimes find it a little overwhelming – it occasionally feels as if you could be missing out, this would be interesting to […]
We pack into a taxi and ask to go to the end of the road. Actually, we request to be taken to the end of life. The word sticks between my colleagues teeth slurring voie to vie. Our french needs […]
I can’t get into the habit of writing again. There’s just too much going on to be able to set aside time to put my thoughts together. How can I condense what’s been happening over the last month into one […]
During last weeks tutorial my tutor picked up on the fact that the object of fascination – the figurine – had been denied to me fully as a child due to my clumsiness. I could look but not touch I […]
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop opens its £3 million purpose-built studios and hub with a number of new artists commissions.
The kids at Big Noise and Primary six at Holy Cross school asked each other to imagine 2114 New types of fruits will be created. Fruit combinations “orana” from the DNA combiner to mix fruits Scientific methods for growing fruit […]
What I’ve found great in books and films recently along with all-time favourites. The books I’m absorbed and getting a lot out of now are: Sanctuary; Britains artists and their studios edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi – a great […]
Selected resources on artists, the art market and the arts ecology.
Goldsmiths is to celebrate the life and critical influence of leading cultural theorist Stuart Hall with a week-long series of discussions, screenings and exhibitions that culminates with an international conference exploring his legacy.
During the summer I met with Heather Aberdein who graduated from the MA Art Psychotherapy course at Roehampton University two years ago. Heather works within a private health care company that provides specialist secure hospital and residential services to adults. […]
Are you often required to work with other professionals? Yes. Every day when I go in I have a handover meeting of up to half-an-hour, where I’m able to liaise with all the support staff. I attend CPA (Care Programme […]
What led you to become an art therapist yourself? I’d been interested in it since I was a teenager. I remember receiving a psychology book from my dad when I was about sixteen and I was already into art. I’m […]
Its a curious one this one, Elle have just released in their December ‘Feminist’ Issue so in the context of making sure my line of inquiry is responsive to current political and social climate I felt I needed to read […]
I continued to work on a previous painting using oil paints and some white acrylic squeezed straight out of a tube as I was unhappy about how the texture of the aluminium shavings worked against the flat background. I think […]
I have been concentrating today on the large scale painting now called Guilty Pleasure and also doing a number of samples on spray paint text on a union jack background and a painterly ground. I have by testing improved […]
Some extracts from our group crit have got me seriously thinking. I may know what I intend to do but how will they be interpreted by the viewer, may their message be lost………… Discussion on post feminism or not-so-post feminism […]
I have started another painting progressing the ideas from the earlier REVIEW painting. This time my improvements/experiments are: Get away from the literal idea of the magazine cover but just use the language of magazines/marketing. Use the strap lines instead […]
Artist Talk today with Emma Price who’s introduction was: Emma has worked as an independent art consultant for many works, enabling artists such as previous visitors Mark S. Gubb and Heather and Ivan Morison to deliver ambitious and exciting artworks […]
Firstly I need to apologize to anyone reading the student blogs. I was accidentally creating a new blog every time I posted an update, I totally got this wrong so today I have had to reconfigure by blog and do […]
https://www.facebook.com/kulesresidency This saturday saw the opening event of the Kules residency programme in Stoke On Trent. Their aim is to use the empty industrial spaces around the city for short term art projects. The opening event was well attended and […]
I was pleased with the painting yesterday ‘Review’ but my head is already racing with the comments from Cally Spooner and how I can progress my line of inquiry and develop my work. I have found by going through some […]
This is my latest painting which I have just completed. I was testing the magazine cover idea and have amended my new title to Review. I think I am already aware when I look back over this year and […]
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/performance-and-music/bmw-tate-live-performance-room-cally-spooner On monday we had Cally Spooner visit the university for an artist talk. She focused her talk on her current projects starting in 2013 and bringing it right up to date including work she completed 2 days ago. […]
I was testing my 2 latest paintings in a crit group as per the intro image on which I am developing the theme of a magazine with the end game being to question how women, and I include myself […]
