Textile artist Louise Presley has received the inaugural £5,000 Harley Foundation Studio Award, which rewards the hard work and dedication of studio artists based at the Foundation.
I gave an artist talk in my studio with a little performative twist by changing my title t-shirts during each section. For example I started wearing my ‘Artist’ t, followed by ‘Tour Guide’ when talking about Manchester as a city […]
Complete; moulded by the potter; turned into symbols by the painter, parents, daughters and families placed in a sunny windowed shrine. Everyday vessels wearing nice colours, good enough in the mid twentieth century
A collection bringing together relevant content for a-n’s art students, from student and other artists’ blogs, to interesting and timely resources published throughout the a-n site. Another great section of the site to keep tabs on is a-n Blogs, a […]
The exhibition closed on Saturday, and as is always the case, the take down is over in a tiny fraction of the time it took to bring the whole thing together. Louise Hesketh, John (a technician at the Brindley) and […]
I’ve just been scrolling through my emails, only to find several potential opportunities I had flagged to follow up, but had still forgotten to do. Deadlines have passed. I’ve applied for nothing at all. I’ve been a mess this […]
I’m watching my friends graduating and feeling like -‘What moves are they going to make next?’ ‘Whats it going to be like for me next year?’ (I’m involved in a group show with them in October in London so I […]
Day 6. The stitching continues. ( F.Y.I actual length of each strip of stitching is approximately 1.5m)
Day 5. The Forest studio is perfectly set up here. The studio come living room also houses the cooking facilities so I can rack my brain, type, draw, make, wash and sleep without taking to many steps at all. […]
Currently reading: Turn your trash into . . . Rubbish, art and politics. Richard Wentworth’s geographical imagination by Harriet Hawkins (University of Exeter), Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 11, No. 8, December 2010 Introduction Hawkins introduces Wentworth’s practice focussing in […]
Conflict, industry and landscape are on the agenda this week as we recommend shows in London, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and Edinburgh.
After working as an artist for the last two years I’m finally beginning to feel that I’m making headway. I recently had some of my work exhibited in Tate Liverpool and Arena Gallery as part of the Liverpool biennial (thanks […]
The Platform Award is an annual initiative involving five galleries that provides professional exhibiting opportunities for graduates in the South East of England. As the first of three shows at Modern Art Oxford opens, Richard Taylor finds out more.
During my stay I have found it really difficult to see other performances, do my own work and balance spending time with the family. Even though I have this amazing studio it doesn’t stop me from hearing my baby cry […]
I just posted a conversation, rather than posting in my blog, just to see how it works, and to see what sort of response I get…. https://www.a-n.co.uk/conversations/we-fear-change-our-new-blog-platform See you over there then? e
WE FEAR CHANGE I don’t know whether a-n considered the emotional effects of changing the blog platform. In the first instance, as a habitual, some might say addictive blogger, the down time was excruciating. I wrote anyway, storing up […]
