The Open Studio comprised three installations to showcase work emerging from our research. Visitors were encouraged to sit in the studio and watch clips from our workshops through the mesh of elastic. The clips chosen tracked early experimentation with the […]
Organically grown research, composition of growing parts, decomposition of all relation. Empathy and respect
Thank you to Jenni Dutton for suggesting a highly relevant article as a source of information for the Museum. In her piece, psychotherapist Philipa Perry talks about ‘transitional objects’ in the context of managing transitions and our ability to navigate […]
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone – it’s time for the Turner Prize and the media’s annual attempt at creating contemporary arts own funeral. Roll on the cheap Warhol allusions – Ciara Phillips screen-prints are sure to draw […]
In just 2 weeks time we will be setting up our PaperFields exhibition at R K Burt in Union Street, London! While busy making we are also emailing, phoning and tweeting about the upcoming exhibition, plus completing the work and getting it ready […]
24/09/20014 Week 3. In attendance 13 artists Discussion: Are you an artist that mirrors the world or are you an artist that says something about the world or yourself? I asked the group which category they fit into. I […]
I am hoping to connect with any painters here on the a-n website who work and live in the Littlehampton, West Sussex area. It seems to me that there isn’t a massive amount on offer for painters, although in East […]
Taking the measure of last week I declare it a good one, starting with a cautiously hopeful hospital-appointment and ending with an encounter with an artist I hadn’t met before, not in person that is. This is what I tweeted […]
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
Considering the nature of capital in the production of objects is a theme that is inherent within artist practice, whether directly or indirectly. This concept relates to everything from the time and materials available to produce work (dictated by sources […]
This week’s must-see shows range from an emotive Susan Philipsz sound installation in Birmingham to the ‘Wp Wp Wp’ of Chinook helicopters in Yorkshire.
ACE chief executive Alan Davey is leaving his post at the end of 2014 to take up the position of controller of BBC Radio 3.
Back in August… Mid summer madness perhaps. S and I going in different directions and we live 60 miles apart, and are both out and about a lot so communicating by phone isn’t easy and emails can be confusing. August […]
21/9/14 Once upon a time I was a writer and before I had a heart attack in 2002, I would have written about WitCH just as I wrote about Medusa another of my favourite images.. the goddess of life and […]
28/914 ‘We always went in’ Witch is the archetype type not controlled by/owned by/used by ptrky. Magical outsider, No, not outsider, but an idea in its community with its ways, it’s words. Community of all genders, LGBTI community, witches and […]
Marion and I met yesterday. https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/sleep-drunk-i-dance We ritualised this occasion. We hugged. We both sat, in turn, with tissue wrappings on our laps. Our fingertips smoothed, found the creases, lifted the flaps, searched and exposed the contents slowly. We gazed […]
