The seventh Whitstable Biennale opened on Saturday with a variety of one-off performances and a series of new film commissions. Dany Louise reports from the small fishing town on the Kent coast.
arranensis is here The first Sorbus arranensis leaf I saw was a wet brown thing lifted from the mulch under the tree by the Ranger Centre. In my haste – amid preparing for the launch – I nearly missed re-visiting […]
We have our last event tomorrow for the Topography Disarranged exhibition. Judith Stewart, who wrote the show essay, will be In-Conversation with myself and Stephanie Douet at 7pm. She’ll be holding forth on her personal perspective on landscape, dislocation and […]
BUYING ART What artworks do artists like to have around them? What artworks do artists buy, trade with other artists, or otherwise acquire, and why? Do artists buy artworks? I was thinking about this when I went to an exhibition […]
After a slight hiatus during which I prepared, was interviewed and gained a place on the Fine Art MA at Central Saint Martins and Josh has been overwhelmingly busy with work… I think we are back and moving forward again. […]
First part of the description of: Photograph 1 There are two figures in the bottom right hand corner of the photograph a man and a woman. Both have their back to the camera and are some distance away, perhaps the […]
Second part of my descrition of: Photograph 1 Because of the clothes, the bare legs and short sleeves I am guessing it is spring or summer and yet there is a greyness of light that places the couple in a […]
The curator has arrived. She is Dr Tracey Warr and she’s very nice. She knows Alan and Helen because she worked on a project to have James Turrell’s Skyspace at Allenheads. They were successful with the funding but couldn’t get […]
Glasgow School of Art has announced that whilst this year’s MFA and Design and Architecture shows will go ahead as planned, special arrangements have been put in place for graduating BA Fine Art students following the recent fire.
Standpoint Gallery’s Mapping Art Practice Symposium invites practitioners and key thinkers to discuss the geographical and economic implications of art practice in the UK.
As part of an exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of William Hogarth’s death and featuring work by David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Grayson Perry, Jessie Brennan is exhibiting a series of newly commissioned drawings of the soon to be demolished Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar. She talks about the project.
It was 11 pm I was tired from a day that I had my work all set up ready for assessment. This was the last piece of work of my three-year course. The thought end of this part of my […]
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I could probably get the same results from cream cheese! Love the way paint is so sculptural, just the sheer physicality of it. Using oil paint, I don’t know whether it is the process of squeezing it out of the […]
i haven’t managed to do anymore on my collaborative project recently, for various reasons, mostly to do with editing the material from the grotto, but I decided to go to a talk arranged by Artquest about collaboration for obvious reasons. […]
I have broken the bivvy! Just one of the poles actually, hopefully I can fix it. The sky is amazing on the moors. Did you know the moors are man made? I did know that already but when I’ve mentioned […]
I’ve challenged myself more and risked spending time on making 100 postcards with the same phrase (small things) broken up on each. Using all of the remaining time making these and doing tonnes of artist research (the more I research […]
The shortlist for the inaugural East London Painting Prize didn’t represent the ethnic and cultural diversity of the area and, argues Gillian McIver, this reflects the UK art world’s stiflingly restrictive approach to artistic practice.
A new collaborative research study from Warwick University and a-n will explore the impact of artist-led initiatives on cultural value.
This week, we catch a New Wave of emerging artistic talent at Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery and explore national identity through Rachel Maclean’s timely exhibition at CCA in Glasgow. Plus there are shows in London, Exeter and Liverpool to enjoy, including a life-size reconstruction of Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio at Tate Liverpool.
