Something strange happens to me on residencies. Whether it’s the new environment, or the new people, the desire comes. It surprises me every time. No, it’s not for me. Not my thing. But here I am again. Completely and […]
If artists regularly self-qualify themselves as ‘starving’ in such a casual and off-handed way, what kind of respect can they expect to gain? Margaret Lam thinks it’s time tell a different story about what it means to be an artist.
A while back, after the open studio day I had, I wrote about the studio being my space, and not a social space. My studio at home (dining room) had always been social as well, and the stuff of art […]
‘Waste doesn’t come from itself. It is the mirror of our society…it is the mirror of who we are’ Philip Heylen, Antwerp, Belgium. Vice-mayor for Culture and Tourism at Stad Antwerpen Today marks the end of the official conference talks in […]
I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time–in short, things that make sense. Vaclav Havel, Open Letters Talking about relevant things that make seanse, authenticity and roots; yesterday […]
Crazy days. The journey to Bornholm took 50 hours exactly: 700 miles and 3 ferries. Not the easiest place to get to! But I managed to stop over in Amsterdam for a night, which was beautiful as ever, especially with […]
A placemat for lunchtime doodling
Recently I was asked to show a specially commissioned film in a social club setting. I was met with a series of challenges, which at every stage threatened to thwart the project entirely. Somehow me and my trusty collaborator persevered […]
A blog to document work which happens during brief moments of opportunity
Jessica Akerman and Morven Mulgrew’s New Collaborations bursary blog.
One night a couple of weeks ago my hands seemed half mine, half other, their tops as I knew them, but my palms hurt badly and felt as large as a giant’s: not swollen but grown or grafted on, and one with […]
A new Collaborative Doctorate Award devised by Warwick University and a-n, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has been awarded to Brighton-based artist Emilia Telese.
Over 24hrs into experiencing a new continent (South America), a new environment (the Uber Uber Corporate Conference) and a language that ‘belongs’ to many countries ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Portuguese_Language_Countries ) I am more sure than ever that my practice exists within an intra-silo space. […]
” All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testyfy to the unwearying, heroic effort of mindkind desperately denying its contingency” Jacques Mondo
I’m excited to unpack Barcelona in a Bag in a new blog space. Transferring from an artist’s page on FaceBook is an action imbued with mixed emotions. I’ve loved every minute of gathering a community of friends around my project […]
One of the things that fascinated me in my reading on the history of the textile/cotton trade was how cotton has linked the people and the economies Britain and the Indian subcontinent for hundreds of years, with changing fortunes: Around […]
Home. Or hame, as my Dad would say. A two week holiday with my family in Scotland is over and we’re back, trying to re-establish some sort of routine alongside the start of a new school term. This year’s summer […]
I am a member of Castlefield gallery’s associate scheme; as part of the scheme a member is entitled to submit proposals for Launch Pad exhibitions. I first applied in March 2014 but my submission was rejected. I applied again at […]
A multiform postmemory exploration of second generation political exile from the Spanish Civil War.
Sometimes when we walk home on what is knick named ‘the normal walk’ I take the quiet back roads through a residential area instead of keeping to the sea front. When this happens I tend not to put Cosmo back […]
As part of Brigton Digital Festival, The New Sublime exhibition at the artist-led Phoenix gallery presents the work of 14 artists in order to ask one question with many answers: what is digital art? Chris Sharratt speaks to the show’s curators.
The latest leg of artist Eve Mosher’s HighWaterLine project, that works with local communities to visualise the effects of climate change by mapping areas at risk of flooding, launches today in Bristol.
