I am collaborating with choreographer Darren Ellis to explore concepts of constraint, confinement, resistance and adaptation. A common interest in how circumstances restrict and determine behaviour led us to develop scenarios for movement within a network of stretched elastic.
While on my recent (quick) visit to Liverpool to attend the John Moores Painting prize PV – I noticed on my early morning walk back through the city that some of the paving has similar qualities to the sandstone clay […]
Some of my intuitive painting from this month.
Adrian Lane, visual artist and musician
I take up residence along the back wall of the studio, a large wooden arch window provides a cool breeze, and a view looking out over the spanish courtyard; if I lean out far enough I can reach a loquat […]
The last couple of weeks as a graduate have been amazing and are dramatically changing. I’ve returned from the international iron conference and have two major exhibitions under my belt one of which is in Newcastle Upon Tyne, the Woon […]
Well, it’s over for another year Life & Other Art Festival… fondly known as LOAF, has been packed away. My shed is back in its place in the garden, The musicians have toddled off to other gigs, and the art […]
With galleries in Zurich, London and New York and a stable of international artists, many will be familiar with art dealers Hauser & Wirth. The power couple’s decision to base their latest venture in the picturesque town of Bruton, Somerset, however, might take some by surprise.
Artist’s Janet French and Emma Buckmaster will be at Art in Action 2014 from 17-20th July demonstrating the collaborative project that they have been working on. ‘Tree Portraits’ are a series of etchings of native tree species printed on to […]
Childrens (and grown-ups) candid camera photographer www.ohanley.co.uk at @Elsie’s_Place
For the second in our seasonal series, we’ve selected some stimulating books to keep you company over those long, hot summer days. So whether you’ll be relaxing on the beach, sipping cocktails by the pool, museum-hopping on a city break, or sheltering from the rain in a cosy tent – pack one of our holiday reads and enjoy that well-earned break!
This piece will be a record or trace of my travels around the UK, as I visit a number of the UK-based artists involved with the Revolve:R project, in their home-cities including Bristol, Liverpool, London, and Glasgow.
This week’s selection includes two major survey shows – radical Russian Kazimir Malevich at Tate Modern, and French conceptualist Daniel Buren at BALTIC – plus a new film installation by Noémie Goudal at New Art Gallery Walsall and darkly humourous paintings by Moyna Flannigan at Glasgow’s GoMA.
When my Soldier’s child came back from an exhibition a while ago, it occurred to me that my father had been a soldier’s child too. His father had fought in WWI and returned with a disease of the heart (not metaphorically speaking). […]
I wrote this for a-n: Hauser & Wirth Open New Arts Centre in Somerset With Galleries in Zurich, London and New York and a stable of international artists, many will be familiar with art dealers Hauser & Wirth. The power […]
Apparently it’s important to blog. One must blog. Therefore: Here There Be Blog. I am currently working on a large installation in a shopping centre. It is my Magnum Opus. (Or at least the most magnum-opussy thing I’ve done so […]
Usually, my main daily concerns are: Have the dogs been walked? Do I have something clean to wear for work? If I achieve them, I feel that I have had a good day. This is because I don’t physically have […]
Artist. Hermit. Differently-abled.
I used to think that if I made something that would be considered to be ‘art’ than that, by default was ‘my work’. This idea has over the past few years shown itself to be highly problematic and generally false. […]
Experiments in truth, purpose and intent.
Nine artists completing the first completely distance MA in Fine Art, November 21st to 29th 2014.
Literature for Children
