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 […]
Somewhere in the industrial town of Indentine an email notification pings on the smart phone of collaborative applicant No.3245. Sofia scanned the notification to applicants and noticed the word ‘successful’ preceded by the heart sinking ‘un.’ Dear Steffan and Sofia, Many […]
After an epic 40 hour journey I have arrived in Thailand. Katie Hawker who runs the artist-led project Surface Arts along with her assistant a local artist called Pitchaya, have been showing me the ropes, introducing me to local artists […]
Day 4.
Day 3. Today I began compiling a list of names of artists who have utilised welding processes in their work. I will work through it accordingly, researching the the role of welding within their practices. I spent a […]
As always with public engagement projects I was quiet nervous about displaying my banner and what response I was going to get. I put out a message on twitter to meet me at the bridge at 1pm. When we arrived […]
