I will be taking down ‘Flight’ on Wednesday, and it will be set up for a week at Beach Creative, in Herne Bay, to counter-balance an exhibition of illustrations for a book about ‘Tommy Atkins’ by the artist Albany Wiseman. […]
With Stan Douglas in Edinburgh, Andy Warhol in Liverpool and William Hogarth in London, this week’s selection spans 300 years of art making and includes painting, sculpture, film, drawing, print and more.
While I was in Copenhagen visiting artists and exhibitions, Joseph Young (my partner), artist activist and air council member, arrived to spend the last couple of weeks with me. He thought he was coming for a holiday but in actual […]
The title of this weeks blog to be read in your best James Alexander Gordon voice please…. As two Premiership (or maybe Championship) artists went head to head this week on Wednesday’s mainstream television, Grayson Perry Utd winning clearly by […]
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Art of the School; St Catherine and Indian princesses
Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish For my dissertation research, I’ve been looking at how uncanny feelings can arise from the way in which we get opposing readings of the animate and the inanimate. Dolls, mannequins and wax figures […]
Went to see the new space for Bethlem Gallery and next years show. Bit of a building site and cluttered but I took some pix and approx measurements. Sadly it didn’t fit with my initial thoughts but will I was […]
Yesterday I started on some work in my studio. It’s really difficult to know how soon I need to start making work, how much time it will take to make the work I want to make and how important it […]
This cold and breezy autumn day seems like a good time to finally finish the story of how I made my Morris & Co-themed works for ‘Tangled Yarns’. To recap: My idea for these pieces was to interlace classic Morris & […]
London is set to welcome the return of a major photography fair to the capital, but with new ownership, more participating commercial galleries and a public programme, reflecting the ever-growing interest in the medium.
WEEK 9 Artists in attendance 11 Abstraction quite a difficult thing to get your head around if you’re over 60 and have very rigid ideas of what ‘real’ art is. Most of the group said they didn’t see the skill […]
Intensive vegetable farming in the ladies pool
Gulflabor, a group of international artists, have stepped up their call for the Guggenheim to enforce stringent labour and human rights regulations in the construction of its Abu Dhabi museum, with a string of public actions.
The major exhibition for the 12th edition of DaDaFest, The Art of the Lived Experiment, sees Liverpool’s Bluecoat at the heart of a series of city-wide events addressing disability culture. We speak to artistic director Ruth Gould about the need for continued social change through championing disabled and deaf artists.
Independent curator and writer Ben Borthwick is to join Plymouth Arts Centre as artistic director, where he will develop the organisation’s public realm and visual arts activity and lead on the centre’s contribution to the Mayflower 2020 festival.
Still expanding options… Finally visiting Bethlem Galleries new space today, which will give me an idea of the size and dymanics I have to work with ) I tempted to try for a wind turbine in my grant application? Xx
Katie Paterson is a time traveller.
Visitors cautiously enter the quite ordinary, but hallowed interior of the city’s Conservatoire.
