LC Wed 30 April: Third collaboration in, and I feel as though we are airborne. Working in this group has brought about a real sense of working together to problem solve and create together, to share ideas, critique the work […]
Tests, tests, tests. From formal assessments for health, care, school etc. and top of the list work, to personality tests to daily life quizzes – we are being constantly assessed and increasingly fascinated to question-testing ourselves. Institutional tests considered as […]
Very busy in the run up to the show. PV in 2 days time, friday the 13th.It’s taken me a lot longer to set up than expected (a week) – with lots of re-arranging and changes. I feel now that […]
I’m on my way! Plans are laid down; train reservations made… just the small matter of sitting an exam and packing before I set off! Activity towards my a-n New Collaborations bursary kicks off properly next week with a visit […]
Matt’s Gallery in London is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a fundraising party and tombola where even the event’s tickets are a limited edition artwork.
The current exhibitions director at London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery has been appointed as the British Council’s new director of visual arts.
Liz Hill reflects on a Warwick Commission debate which revealed the enthusiasm of the creative industries for better creative and cultural education in schools – and the barriers to making it happen.
I’m trying not to think of how much I need to do over the next week and a half. If I take it all in, I’ll just panic and not get anything done at all. I do have enough people […]
Rethink, U-turn, reassessment, or indecisive grasshopper… call it what you like. In a previous post I said I had some unfinished songs, waiting for me to find a way to use them, then they will get finished. I think I’m […]
Shadowing, an interactive work by New York and Treviso-based duo Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier, has won Watershed’s Playable City Award.
New a-n Executive Director Jeanie Scott talks about growing up around contemporary art and explains why an organisation with artists at its heart “feels like home”.
This week is the final week of the Birmingham leg of Bill Drummond’s World Tour (2014-2025), London’s Foundling Museum celebrates the legacy of William Hogarth through the work of four contemporary artists, and Sheffield’s Site Gallery presents an exploration of the rave scene.
It’s 9th June and I was unable to make a war piece for May – partly because I lacked time, partly inspiration. But my film ‘Salient’ was part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite Film programme, so that’s travelling a bit […]
ICAP Publicity poster Images courtesey of Fig Tree Art Studio
This blog forms part of “Test taking: every, never, none” –a new project and one-day show where I investigate some aspects of being continuously assessed and the fascination of question-testing ourselves. Mainly, I will be looking at questions, responses and […]
Whoa! where did that week go? I just checked when I last posted and it was a whole week ago. Since then I’ve edited the footage of the New Mills work with my friend and editor Gareth where we worked […]
Walking in my local park during a recent rain storm I photographed some interesting images. I was rather drawn to some old iron work embedded in the ground that formed lovely Klimtesque swirls in the earth with some lush vegetation […]
Leeds was to be our final excursion out of the North East for medical museum musing. We were excited by the prospect of surfacing the already realised concepts – the ’emotional truth’, literary and visual imaginations, stories from human remains […]
A sculpture to be created in collaboration with Italian Community in Peterborough.
I feel a little disheartened really… This blog is 3 years old now. I feel that I have changed a lot over those three years. But in a fit of nostalgia I decided to read over my first few posts. […]
Is crowdfunding the solution to fund private art projects? It is definitely a natural alternative, backers are an amazing breed of emotional individuals with a uniquely generous philanthropic mindset and art is an emotional investment. Going out public and asking […]
