within what i do i often use a camera to record and document things what i’ve done. yesterday this was spun on it’s head. anton hecht makes videos with people in them. the people sing. slightly awkwardly at times. in […]
The Exposure Award 2014 at Parasol Unit in London, offers the opportunity for selected graduates to show work professionally in a gallery and to present their work during a panel discussion. This year Chelsea College of Art (UAL) graduates Jon […]
The Cardiff Open Studios Weekend sees more than 140 artists opening their work spaces to the public over two days. Artist and curator Bob Gelsthorpe – co-founder of the city’s Bit Studios – reports.
When Sonia Boué tweeted b/w images from the Oxford-London train of the globetrotter-suitcase and later her face she seemed a time-traveller from the 30s/40s, on her way to meet me at a flat temporarily located in 2014’s London (so I […]
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The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced Moira Sinclair as its new director.
I’ve been talking to a young friend about balance. Actually, she is the daughter of friends of ours, but recently, through Facebook, across the oceans (she is currently in Australia) this bright young artist and I have found we have […]
In this ‘wood for the trees’ time I am building in as many mini goals as I can to get me stretching myself. I have felt very frustrated and ‘full of woe’ as I am coming to terms (slowly!) with […]
A recent 10th anniversary fundraising auction by the London-based not-for-profit contemporary art foundation Parasol Unit has raised over £2million from sales of work donated by artists.
Firstly focusing on the preface of Batchelors The Luminous and the Grey I found the initializing of the argument to be about how and why colour exists in the world around us. “It is not the presence of colour in […]
It is the last day of our PaperFields exhibition today. We’ve been getting great responses from visitors. I got home late on friday and had taken up the opportunity to talk at the Hereford College of Art Drawing Symposium, so […]
Screen printed images – edited sections of photo research Working to combine painted image with printed image – could this manifest itself in a three dimensional way also? If so, how could that be? I am thinking objects, or shapes […]
I will be installing an inter-active sound installation for the forthcoming Bridge of Allan Contemporary Art Fair on November 1 called “Tweet a Sound”. Met up with the director of the Fair, Amy Drewery, this afternoon to discuss final arrangements. […]
Week 6. In attendance 15 artists. Collage collage collage! I love a bit of collage! The members found this a little hard. “I don’t know what to do?” this seems to be a bit of a continuing theme. We […]
Week 5 In attendance 13 artists This week we explored the exciting experience or an art lucky dip. The members didn’t know what they were going to get when they put their hands into the art lucky dip. […]
Whilst working on this canvas I have used alot of salvaged paints and materials, alot of what I do is about recycling and reusing as I am very conscious of the environment. It is very upsetting to see alot of […]
Claire is a Glasgow based composer, musician and facilitator. She is director of Sonic Bothy (http://atelierpublic.wordpress.com/artists/claire-docherty-sonic-bothy/). Her practice centres around collectively creating new music often in cross-discipline contexts. Jane is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on participatory and interactive […]
A New Collaborations Bursary Blog between Claire Docherty (Composer) & Jane Pitt (Artist) documenting their 3 day collaborative ‘soundlab’ and the stuff that’s still resounding from it..
After an interesting first day of exploring the estate where the Merz Barn is located, I tried to set myself to work on something, anything. I struggled. I had put way too much pressure on myself to fabricate something, but […]
I was thinking about information overload while making these, or the sources we have for our information. It used to be books, and serial magazines, newspapers, print in all it’s forms. These little artists books are an experiment with collage […]
My consideration of gift theory within contemporary art practice is led primarily by an interest in anthropology as a theoretical framework: “Theoretical frameworks provide a particular perspective, or lens, through which to examine a topic. Theoretical frameworks usually come from […]
A Barefoot Residency showing at St Johns Church, Pevensey rd, St leonards on Sea,TN38 0JX, as part of PhotoHastings..
