Last night was the opening of our Colonize Revisited exhibition at Arena Gallery and I’ve been so tired today, all I’ve done is flitted from one thing to another, unable to focus for more than ten minutes at a time. […]
London can be an expensive place to be an artist, but what are the advantages of basing your practice outside the capital, and how are those that choose to stay in London making it work? Pippa Koszerek reports from Standpoint Gallery’s recent MAP Symposium.
Artist In Residence at Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas, Cataluña 2012 2014 ‘tomorrow I move back to the magic mountain’. Post. I’d previous remained incognito about my imminent return to Paradise. Pinning the words to my Facebook […]
A new publication by US-based choreographer Andrew Simonet is a call to action for artists to harness their creative know-how to create an economically sustainable lifestyle.
My first day in Anglesey at Halen Mon has passed by in a blaze of glorious sunshine. As an artist trying to utilise the outcomes of science within my work, my primary aim for today was to discover just how […]
I’m still trying to work out how to manage this new blog set-up and have just managed to lose loads of things that I wrote after trying to add a picture…alas i’ll have to start all over again. The video […]
“On sustainability: it is a kind of discourse that implies a different kind of social relation. What I mean is, instead of doing philosophy, one is doing ecophilosophy, not in the environmentalist sense, but as the philosophy of a possible […]
Currently watching: The Mafia Is Trashing Italy… Literally (2009) VICE Film footage shows the mountains of garbage bales with commentary on the scale of the issue in Naples and the surrounding Campania region. Interviews with farmers from the affected regions […]
‘Welcome! Drawing your attention: to spatial metaphor and mythopoeic laboratory’ I am here to reflectively ponder about my current research project where I use myth and permaculture to explore the many facets of Sustainability and the nature/culture continuum. I will […]
Meeting 2 The moment Dr Carolyn Rando saw the rabbit still had a face, she gave a gasp of delight. It’s a Sunday and we are spending a few hours in the suburban back garden of Charlotte’s parents’ house. Charlotte […]
Yorkshire Sculpture Park announced as winner of £100,000 prize.
Its been 4 months since I started the wheels in action to make my garden studio a reality. Getting rid of the old garage, hence my parking space, meant a new driveway at the front of the house to allow […]
Writing a blog is all new to me and seeing as mine is about one to one conversations with artists I cannot help but worry about issues concerning the personal and the vastly public (that’s of course assuming that anyone […]
Wow, it’s been a long time coming since my last blog entry back at the start of the year. I’ve been chomping at the bit to start posting up new material, although a number of changes in my personal life: […]
Recursive blog post 02 This will be the first time I have used this blog in the way it’s meant to be used, as a log of a project, or in this case an exhibition. I am showing in […]
Aside from a few decades in the middle of the twentieth century when abstraction and minimalism ruled and anything vaguely figurative was pointedly ignored by the art world, the human figure has been the most timelessly familiar and most frequently […]
a-n’s new look website is live, with a test phase encouraging members to ‘try out, share and feed back’.
From design and plan of the building, to moving in, setting up and getting down to ‘making’, this blog explores my journey towards a studio of my own.
I’m finding that making a film is rather a complicated thing. Actually, it’s nowhere near the actual making of the film yet; it’s the, ‘getting the story out of my head into some kind of readable format thing.’ The toughest […]
Summer is here and what better way to celebrate than to avoid the sun and head straight to your local gallery. We’ve selected some of the best exhibitions coming up over the next few months, from large-scale blockbusters to smaller but no less important shows across the country.
I walked over the golf course this afternoon and remembered the grass had been cut. Recently I had walked here and it was waist high and acually difficult to wade through, I had kind of liked it, and could only […]
