Today we made it across to Swona in a cute yellow boat called Sheila C, captained by two lovely chaps both called Magnus! The crossing from Burray Pier to The Haven at Swona took about 30 minutes and was really […]
After a long break spent working and being distracted, one of the big projects I have been involved in was the conception and realisation of an exhibition exploring drawing in contemporary art practice. I’ve written a bit of a review: […]
Weird day. Probably shouldn’t post on a weird day, in case I say something I later regret. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. I have angst. I am in the midst of a crisis of confidence. I […]
Talking to Paula, the archivist at the baths about how she catalogs items and how I might mirror her process to create an archive of the future Looking at objects from Paula’s archive. What will the equivalent objects be in […]
A lesson in writing in Arabic There are so many languages spoken here I’m hoping to have text translated into at least three languages: Urdu, Slovakian and Romanian The men at the local mosque kindly gave me a crash course […]
Waking up to Glasgow sunshine, I was transported by my generous hosts to the world of The Black Wood of Rannoch – away from the city, from books, research questions; away from mentalism to direct experience of this forest field-site […]
Former Edinburgh Napier graduate, Alicia Bruce, has been named as the recipient of the £5,000 RSA Morton Award 2014 towards researching and developing a new body of photographic work.
Reaching the buying public with original and unique work
This is the initial piece in what hopefully is destined to be a new series of work rather than simply an idea that peters out and dies. I’m aware I’m possibly working on too many things at the same time. […]
The Artists’ Assembly Against Austerity is to launch this month. We speak to Season Butler about how artists can get involved.
When investigating the social costs of the fashion industry the first thing that tends to spring to mind is the unfair deal workers are often getting – overworked, underpaid, exploited – whether in the garment sewing factories of today’s Bangladesh […]
***Please note this review is by Wayne Burrows and not Andrew Bracey***
Artists need a balance, well several balances – no matter which aspect of creative life I think about there is always a point at which a balance has to be found. Between reading/researching and actual making; paid work and studio […]
Yesterday the sea was still too rough for us to make a crossing to Swona. Both mornings we had psyched ourselves up – packed the kit, food supplies, dressed in warm layers of clothing and head-to-toe waterproofs – and arrived […]
More amazing people and tasty food today. Making soup and canelloni with Govanhill Grub and a community barbecue on a tiny patch of ground recently transformed as a veg garden And a caramel wafer
Technical problems aside, I love this site and everything it stands for, and all the goodies one can find within it. Fantastic opportunities listings, helpful resources, interesting blogs… I’ve enjoyed being a part of its community since the beginning of […]
Listed below are the comments written by the passing public in Tampere and artists at the residency studios of how to twin the cities together. What I found was that ‘Art’ wasn’t much of a priority in the general publics […]
Following this week’s meeting with Louise I’ve got an action plan for getting the work under the noses of people who might like to tour the exhibition. I’ve found that my experience of writing these blogs is that if I […]
