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 […]
I’ve been meaning to write a blog entry since the opening of the exhibition. Maybe I did. I drafted this entry on paper, with the computer turned off – so as to be able to wind down and sleep better […]
Creative ideas and making come in waves of activity – not a steady flow – which might be easier to deal with? I’m mentally tired after working on my dissertation and end of year project. In the process of dissertation […]
Yesterday was my last day in Allenheads and today I’m back in Liverpool, in Arena, my studios, priming boards to make a massive long painting to go in the Palm House for Liverpool International Music Festival in August. I am […]
Among the 1200-plus works in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a huge text painting by Bob and Roberta Smith, featuring the transcript of a harrowing interview with a doctor recently returned from Syria.
Arts Council England has announced that £180m of Lottery funds will be used for the core funding of NPOs involved in touring or working with children and young people.
x The applications of socially engaged art. How does the application of being an artist engage with the actions and words of everyday society (le quotidien) and can an artist’s practice perfect society?
