Since 2012 the Edinburgh Art Festival has had ‘tourists-in-residence’, Edinburgh-based artists commissioned to create work around the theme of a tour. Richard Taylor talks to this year’s residents, who plan to be gagged and blindfolded for their first tour around the city.
Today I have been working my way through our collections project database, finding all the items in our local collections which are related to World War I. This is in preparation for an exhibition at the Brindley in October and […]
With the help of the European Space Agency, artist Katie Paterson will send a meteorite back into space at 12.40 am tomorrow morning.
I’m now over halfway through the PhD and so far I’ve been using my time to explore different ideas and processes which, although loosely related to my topic, still feel quite disparate in approach. The common thread running through my […]
ICAP Workshops are well under way. Children from the Italian Community joined the project by attending Italian Themed day of Arts, Crafts, fun, games and a pizza lunch at the ICA. A great day was had by all including the […]
The renowned curator of photography, and former Head of Art Galleries at the Barbican Centre, has been announced as the new Head of Photography at the Science Museum Group.
This week is the first week without something or other scheduled in my diary for months. Except on Thursday the local press are coming to take photographs for a piece about Southwell Open Studios. We are joining forces with the […]
Definitely settled in as Community Artist: collaborating with local art projects, connecting with the V&A collections and mapping out my own artistic concerns. First off, spray painting at the Henry Dickens Court Community Centre. Local children working with TMO, Steph Perkins and lead artist, Claire […]
Ambitious plans for a ‘new centre for the arts in south London’, to be part funded by an auction of artworks donated by college alumni, have been announced by Goldsmiths, University of London.
Between our visit to London and the on-rush of Christmas we had time for one more conversation with Judith. We compared the works in Home Truths with other works that reveal private interiors: Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh, Sophie Calle’s Suite […]
Gustav Metzger: Lift Off! Is both a homecoming and retrospective exhibition for the artist which is currently being held at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Across the exhibition space Metzger’s creative activism and symbiosis with science is captured in a space housing […]
We started the workshop by reviewing the work recorded from Workshop 1. There were 32 items of footage which gave us plenty of material to discuss and to inform what we focused on over those two days. We loosely grouped […]
Returned from Summer Lodge at Nottingham Trent University happy and with lots of ideas. Especially pleased with throwing pots which were not fired and ideas of sustainability and the notion of not leaving a legacy – a buzz word of […]
I honestly do not know what is going on with regards to the wider group show “Shadows of Childhood”. We were looking at June due to booking problems and the curator’s prior commitments (“Shadows of Childhood” is/was his concept, and […]
I don’t seem to be able to upload an image….it used to be easy
why go from simple to hard?
a yes…a successful Launch Pad submission
Later in March 2014 I attended Curating the Moving Image, a two day intensive at the Arnolfini in Bristol run by Al Cameron, Associate Curator of Performance, and Bridget Crone, curator and Visiting Tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London. Attended […]
New digital artwork by the Turner Prize-winning artist reveals series of four films over four days to mark First World War centenary.
Funding meant a large supply of elastic so the first job was to install plenty in the studio space. The first workshop brought in a dancer and aimed to give her time to experiment with movement, testing speed and weight […]
With advice from METAL I also successfully applied for further funding through the Arts Council’s Grants for the Arts scheme. This extended our budget for R&D, to enable the purchase of equipment and software and to cover costs for Darren, […]
Having tested the symbiosis between our work and established a foundation for collaboration, I made a successful application for an a-n New Collaborations bursary. Without funding it was proving difficult to work together as often as we would wish and […]
