Yesterday, setting up the feathers, was an interesting experience. I had thought about this project for so long,and planned the installation, but when it was time to start hanging the feathers,I felt very nervous. The intention was to hang each […]
I got to an interesting point during the summer where my painting was moving on. My tutor had encouraged me to be more confident and I’d begun making stronger and more simplified marks with paint. A pause from painting during […]
This is the sort of project I love; concerns from my existing practice colliding with an external provocation (in this case, to respond to the collection of Maidstone Museum) to trigger a new idea. I’ve chosen to re-imagine what a […]
So here I am sitting in a gallery full of art invigilating so the public can have access to it whenever they want to. I am finding that the context of this big white space (No Format gallery in Woolwich, […]
“The paradox of old gramophone recordings is that, today, we perceive the singing voice whose clarity is obfuscated by scratches as more ‘realistic’ than the most faithful Dolby- stereo or THX recording – as if the very imperfection of the […]
I’ve recently re-shot a film I made to improve the footage and incorporate sound. It’s just had its debut at the 51zero arts festival in Medway allowing me to view it critically for the first time. The new stills are […]
Site specific interventions
I think I’m marking time with the work while I’m a little out of action… I’m waiting to hear from a couple of funding applications that will keep me going for the year, so I don’t want to “go off […]
Down comes Anywhere is Everywhere is a Circular Tale, a solo exhibition in Texas and up goes My Home is My Castle in the Harrington Mill Artists group in the Carnival of Monsters in Nottingham. Next is the Open Studios […]
Wrapping up the 306 feathers yesterday, as I laid them out they looked strangely human, and all too like the pictures I’ve seen in the media this year, from the Ukraine, and Syria. So this is my penultimate project for […]
Down comes Anywhere is Everywhere is a Circular Tale, a solo exhibition in Texas and up goes My Home is My Castle in the Harrington Mill Artists group in the Carnival of Monsters in Nottingham. Next is the Open Studios […]
Before and After the Event By Victoria Lucas The works can be thematized as a series of considered and poetic interactions with objects and places. Focusing on urban public spaces that frame the everyday, works punctuate the ordinary so that […]
Articulating a point of view by Flis Holland Part of an ongoing series of works, the installation takes us back to a house in England. This eerie domestic setting seems suspended in time, held just beyond our reach, but it […]
Published to accompany the exhibition at the current Brighton Photo Biennial, The Archive of Modern Conflict’s latest journal casts light on the dark and vicious era of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’. Tim Clark takes a look at this rich and tautly edited photobook.
Former a-n director Susan Jones will be sharing evidence gathered through a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign over a hearty lunch of vitamin-rich soup at Stoke-on-Trent’s AirSpace Gallery, the latest event in a series of talks and workshops.
Thanks to the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund, Tate has purchased its 100th artwork from the London art fair, adding works by five artists to its collection.
Now in its third year, Tempting Failure is an artist-led international festival of live and performance art in Bristol that encourages artists to push the boundaries of their practice. We talk to the festival’s artistic director, Thomas John Bacon.
I’ve always felt that my installations are ritualistic: that’s something I’ve been veryaware of this week, preparing for ‘Flight’. My 306 porcelain feathers have been sitting in the studio for weeks, waiting, and when I began the week I had […]
16th Oct Witch is getting nearer, so is Halloween. My grandson, aged 4, is looking forward to trick or treat and has skeletons all around. I have back ache from being at the computer too long. Looking at one of […]
