My MA revolves around what it is to be human and in particular, my very personal relationship to illness, disability and invisibility.
We were asked to detail our thoughts and ideas about our work in a blog to be validated by our tutors….so I did
In November last year Bob Levene and I were awarded a New Collaborations Bursary award for developing our Boundary walking project. During February and March of the same year we had undertaken a walk following the Metropolitan District Boundary Line […]
Being an artist has certain pressures associated with it, not everyone understands these pressures, of course. It is only those working within creative fields that seem to ‘get’ it. Finding enough drive to lead your own self-initiated activities on […]
Im a bit confused about the type of insurance I need which covers me at work. Im a painter/graphic artist who works in an open studio where we have been told by the studio manager that the Public and Products […]
The challenge is to now create ICAP Sculpture.
Finding myself in the studios is unusual these days, not because I’m not working, I am, all the time. But because taking a ten month old to a communal studio and expecting her not to a) break something b) injure […]
In the first of a series of co-commissioned articles looking at visual arts projects supported by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts, we find out how the work of Scottish sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi is helping pioneer an innovative new approach to art history and archiving.
At one end of the church a painting is being restored, placed, and ‘illuminated’. This activity pushes me further down through the vaulted arches, to a new place, and I view the space from a different doorway. And so preparation […]
Its good to see that my work is still up in The Waterfront gallery, just moved into the corridor.
I have been inspired by an exhibition I have seen recently at The New Cut in Halesworth. The artist Bob Royston has used some beautifully serene colours and has some really interesting textures in his paintings. I was lucky enough […]
The inaugural £5,000 Jerwood/Photoworks Awards has launched with the aim of attracting proposals in relation to ‘new approaches to photography’.
Abuela is most insistent that we blog again today – no time like the present, she says, steering me towards the keyboard. No, I agree, no time at all, and it really does feel like no time since I began […]
The next stages of my artwork. Its so hard to know when to stop, it could be finished at any point, but I have felt the urge to keep persevering with it. So far I have used oil paint, emulsion, […]
I’ve actioned the action plan (collating all the info about the exhibition and sending it out to contacts) so now it’s a case of waiting to see if anyone is interested in the work/exhibition along with talking to some of […]
After a couple of months being away from art by working hard over summer to earn some money, as I’m sure most university students do. I wanted to immerse myself in art again so I decided to plan a trip […]
Cardiff Contemporary festival continues for five weeks across the city, inviting visitors to explore and discover the Welsh capital through a series of installations and exhibitions. Rory Duckhouse reports from the opening weekend.