For various reasons I haven’t posted in a while, but it’s nice to be back. I’ve been kept busy with the great news that the Heritage lottery Fund bid I was working on with colleagues has been successful. Working Lives: […]
this blog plots an awakening after my attendence of a big lunch extras camp in july 2014
Paul Hamlyn Foundation director Martin Brookes is leaving the organisation after just over a year in the job.
a-n / AIR’s Paying Artists campaign video is now live – watch, like and share widely to support the campaign!
The theme of the project ‘The Levels and Moors’ aims to reflect the landscapes in Somerset and the organisation hopes that artists will create work specific to this and offer a unique artistic response to the visitor.
My current exhibition at the m2 gallery in Peckham provided an opportunity to work together immediately. On 26 June we worked together in the extremely confined space – which was a dramatic but effective way to start to ease into […]
Having approached Darren to see if he was interested in exploring the potential for us to collaboration, we met for the first time at Sadler’s Wells on 25 May 2012 and started to develop an understanding about each other’s interests. […]
I specificaly wanted to walk today on what my wife calls the Wild Wood Walk…. it’s actually the Wildart Trail…but Wild Wood is fine. By total coincidence I can see a sign on the entrance gate, says….Wildart Day…Open to all…Family….be […]
Following the opening of its new £10 million arts building in June, fine arts consultancy John Jones welcomes its first artist in residence as part of The Project Space programme of exhibitions, events and outreach activities. We speak to artist Ruth Proctor, and learn more about the space from curator Cassandra Needham.
The next part of my series Dwelling Fusion features the household article at the centre of every kitchen – the kettle, As with the first subject in the series I have taken my two kettles and fused half their individual images together to […]
Tampere Artists´ Association rents living and working facilities at Takahuhti Artcenter for visiting artists, curators, critics and alike. The building is a former old people´s home and it is owned by the City of Tampere.
As part of the Paying artists advocacy materials I am researching examples of openly-published exhibition policies on the websites for publicly-funded galleries. I have come across some – for example fabrica.org.uk/info-for-artists/exhibiting/ and www.g39.org/cgi-bin/website.cgi?place=infomation that provide some useful information. I thought […]
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced the successful artists in its inaugural Arts Council England-funded commissions and bursaries scheme.
For me, an exhibition in the midst of a historic museum like the William Morris Gallery is a dream come true because it actively encourages making connections between the past and the present, between the permanent collection and the new […]
This week’s must-see shows include a group exhibition exploring urban anxiety in Manchester, a retrospective of German émigré Gego in Leeds, and a fresh look at the work of Shelagh Wakely in Camden.
London-based commissioning agency invites feedback on its programme of exhibitions, commissions, research, events and publications.
8am..midpoint brings invitations to listen, to attend, to show, to talk. All four ‘seams’ form part of a responsive map, however something else is tugging/pulling. An urge to explore a new choreography for myself and my time here. A journey […]
This image is of my armchair, the thing that most represents home for me. It provides relief after a day of work – physical rest and comfort – as well as being directly next to the things that I enjoy: […]
Today is “Take A Deep Breath” Day. Things are settling down after my husband’s special birthday (I’m not telling, that’s up to him). My eldest son will be going back to his own home today. Tomorrow I have some […]
But I do think it is important to write about what I’m doing and also to review where I am up to with all the things I am meant to be doing, so I’ll use this blog post to do […]
X drifts its way through the upmarket executive creative suite, located in the The Gertec Building, Vaconsoft Parkway. X’s gaze focuses in on art executives cashing share options on the 14th floor of the Art Market Stock Network on the […]
