for my dissertation I have been studying Yayoi Kusma this is part of my chapter about her, I love her work and have found it inspirational. Yayoi Kusma’s Infinity Mirrored Room – The souls of millions of lights years away, […]
New work, next stages. I found the frame and cut a board I found to fit. I don’t think this frame works with the work however and have removed it. This work also possibly needs some quieter areas.
My 2 latest paintings have been exploring similar themes but in very different ways. ‘Discretion’ plays with the patterns I found in scrunched up newspaper which I juxtaposed with the close up detail of a lace fan. It is complicated […]
Saw an older couple with a young male in a wheel chair, all limbs wrapped up tight in a post trauma tightness and unmoving. They had their lunch and I watch them wondering about their story and remembering when I […]
I have been continuing my experiments with coloured theatre gels and the LED light sheets I recovered from an old work earlier last week. I have been mainly just playing in my studio; arranging then rearranging the coloured acetate filters […]
This year’s Platform Graduate Award, for recent art graduates in South East England, has been awarded to Sophie Dixon.
Helen Goodman, MP for Bishop Auckland and Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, has announced her support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
My subject matter is almost always the female figure. The colour choices for my work can be dictated by my own feelings and also reveal the emotional context of the painting. My artwork invites the viewer to explore the psychological, […]
One of our aims for this new collaboration is to look at graphic scoring, visual documentation, interpretation and mapping of sound. We want to explore useful ways of having a record of the sounds we find and make in order […]
How people filter their perception of the environment is key to our work together. Considering audience and musicians as active perceivers receiving & processing multiple data not units in space. Definition & Concepts in Denis Smalley – Spectromorphology, acted as […]
As Mr Jones begins the roller-coaster ride into the next election worrying about the ‘Mansion Tax’, I’ll try not to express contempt. As part of the large company of artists contemplating whether they can pay the next months rent for their studio, […]
forgot to add another little gem from yesterday’s reading, I find Hofmann very inspiring for my practice and for my dissertation. “Colour has in itself a sovereign function on the basis of its light no sub-intrinsic qualities. Colour itself is […]
A new annual prize for art and film, launched by Amsterdam-based EYE film museum and the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, will honour artists and filmmakers who have successfully brought the two worlds together.
Nuns and good wives: how to be a sixties housewife and become an artist
Another one of my artworks has been hung at university.
i’m feeling rather pleased. i’ve spoken to hayley skipper from the forestry commission this afternoon and asked the questions i’ve been waiting to ask. i can set about finishing the review now.
I bought an iPad. It is a thing of joy, an object of desire… I am loving it so far, I masochistically quite enjoy that period of learning when you get a new thing. I like finding out what it […]
The issue of artists’ pay and exploitation in the US is prompting a variety of responses that question what it means to be an artist in the current economic climate. Abigail Satinsky, associate director at Chicago’s Threewalls gallery, surveys the landscape and asks whether we need to look at how we value and define art and artists.
I got back in the studio last week after a busy period including my Merz Barn residency and a number of exciting commissions. I started the week by dismantling an old piece of work in order to retrieve some custom-made […]
Stewart Home, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye feature in the MIRRORCITY newspaper edited by the Booker Prize-nominated author Tom McCarthy, to accompany the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition of the same name.
This week’s selection of must-see shows takes us on a trip to Manchester, Leeds, Hastings and a forest in Surrey.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a second-hand crochet piece on-line, half bib, half collar. I wanted to add it to my small collection of outfits&objects that help me explore, call into, fall into, the time my dad was a […]
