Personally I love portraits, I have great admiration for those who can capture a person’s personality though portraiture, it is very much my cup of tea! I have tried to paint and draw pictures of myself, some drawings have been […]
In collaboration with Ikon gallery, Birmingham-born artist Gillian Wearing has immortalised a local family, consisting of two sisters and their children, in a bronze artwork sited in Centenary Square outside the new Birmingham Library.
As it took some time to post my first entry, I think it is appropriate to spend some time recording the activities of October. Preparation for one of these events began some months ago when Barton’s in Beeston, Nottingham announced […]
This collection of articles shows my interests which reflect my personal practice. My work can be viewed on saatchi art.
to hours and twenty minutes before the deadline … submission made to a residency opportunity. this one has been very significant – however the outcome of the submission goes. i spent weeks going around the houses and in the final […]
Manchester’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art has appointed a new director, Zoe Dunbar, who will join the organisation in December.
In Photo Show, editor Alessandra Mauro offers a kaleidoscopic look at 12 landmark photography exhibitions and perhaps a new perspective from which to approach the medium. Tim Clark is excited by the first book of its kind.
My flight is at 8.40pm. I am flying with Cathay Pacific. I arrive in Hong Kong at 4.20pm on 1st November and then fly with Dragon Air to Xiamen, landing at 6.55pm where Ineke and May will meet me at […]
I have to ask myself this, as when I first started creating art work it was mostly drawings in sketchbooks I hadn’t even painted on a canvas before I started university. so why painting, and why abstract? To be brutally […]
Fifteen days since the knee op. Can’t drive yet… another couple of weeks probably before I can get back behind the wheel. I am climbing the stairs, one at a time, good leg first, like a toddler. I can walk […]
I have now spent just over two months here in Stoke-On-Trent as part of my Graduate Residency. And again my weeks have been filled with exciting activities along side my own developments in the studio. Here is what I have […]
Hello, At the moment I do workshops in the UK. I am currently looking to do the same workshops abroad in the USA, Canada and mainland Europe. Can anyone give me advice as to anywhere I can cover myself with […]
I am a final year art student at University Campus Suffolk. My work has developed into the challenge of figurative painting. Recently I have begun to explore the figure and bold pattern combinations and the way the pattern wraps and […]
a-n’s Granted professional development programme of workshops and seminars for artists and visual arts freelancers launches a new strand this autumn, working in partnership with Medway Council’s Recreate project, and offering one-to-one advice for the first time.
In the months before our 3 day sounding lab we sporadically exchanged references that excited us, stuff we’d read, artists that interest us, workshops we’d led or attended, observations from making new work.. references included: Denis Smalley – Spectromorphology: explaining […]
I have taken the close ups of my painting ‘Wild Flowers’. I really liked the effect created by taking smaller sections of the painting, to see more detail, it almost looks like new different paintings. The blue splatters pop against […]
Creative Scotland has announced details of the 119 organisations that make up its new Regular Funding portfolio, benefiting from regular support over a three-year period.
V&A ban drawing in Turner exhibition
