This week’s selection includes a marrying of abstract and representational imagery in Nottingham, two exhibitions exploring different aspects of London life, and a chance to revisit work by Douglas Gordon as part of a celebration of the last 25 years of Scottish art.
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
12 April – 31 May 2014
Bloc, FBI, S1, &model, East St Arts, Basement Arts Project, Mexico, Sheffield and Leeds
16 – 17 May 2014
IS THE ART WORLD BIASED? Part I of II It all gets worse.A very good friend of mine applied for an East London painting prize and didn’t get shortlisted. Actually, he didn’t give a toss, but I got pretty upset. […]
Week 2 in the project space and I’ve got an assembly line for making the resin houses in place. I’ve worked out the problems with the bubbles and learnt not to mix resin in a polystyrene cup (it melts). I […]
IS THE ART WORLD BIASED? Part II of II Why is the “art world” of prizewinners, press darlings and highly visible British artists so unrepresentative of the ethnic make-up of the country, given that we have a lot of diversity […]
That damned hand… Work on my large canvas was going well. I was painting every other day on areas-so that there was always a dryer area to work on – this kept painting flowing in the time scale. One area […]
Masked Flesh In my previous post you can see my painting progressing. The face was beginning to become quite mask like. this links back to the main themes of my project as well as introducing a few new ideas. The […]
New routes and dust .. a large empty space has appeared in the centre of the church. The floor is a carpet of dust pulling the sound beneath it like a quietening sheet. New lines are revealed, all leading to […]
The relationship between vitrines and institutional critique has inspired my latest collaborative project, ‘The Imaginary Museum’, a direct reference to the Andre Malraux publication ‘Museum without Walls’ (discussed in week 60). Under the auspices of the Artist Book Collective, I […]
Literal and Metaphorical use of Colour and Space Cont. Picking up from the last post… I plan to now paint a piece that deals with space in a different way, and to do that my process has to be changed […]
After creating the images for the degree show I could play around with different characters again. I looked into using a prop in these images and decided on a telephone. I used the telephone cord to wrap around my neck […]
Making this blog is almost like the theoretical equivalent of laying out work for a catalogue or exhibition. In terms of allowing me to gather, assess and take stock of where my work is. Stepping back helps me to see […]
Day 2 in Greece began at 7.30. Breakfast was a pastry and coffee in a little cafe just round the corner from the hotel. We sat outside and enjoyed the moment. A taxi took us to the venue and we […]
It’s (to me) a surprising amount of days since my last blog post. I’ve been very, very busy with art in the real world and have been ‘saving it all up’ ready to post about it. I’ve photo-documented my journey […]
Further images of my beagle sculpture in situ.
These images of the plans for a way to display my video and how to put the projector and dvd player in the space.
This week and the previous week has shown me so much how team work and communicaiton are very important. Myself and Yvonne have worked together at an amazing pace to get our studio walls and floors painted which has now […]
After much deliberation and testing i have it works really well to play my video at the base of the wall as it shows brighter and inkeeps with the feel of my work.
Plans for putting up cubes from the top of my space using nails and fishing wire.
Today with the help of my boyfriend Aydan, we managed to hang all the cubes in a sort of ordily fashion.
Mike Nelson Michael “Mike” Nelson (born 20 August 1967) is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 and 2007. Nelson’s installations always […]
As my degree show becomes ever closer I have finished off my frame and got it ready to be put up on the wall. I have finally got it done and it is now ready to be put up on […]
Seeing as I have my work up ready for the degree show I have started working on some small paintings in my sketch book testing ideas I have had for larger paintings. Just because this year is coming to an […]
Again i have been looking into Christian Boltanski’s work, there is such a strong sense of memory that carries throughout his work. This time i have particularly looking at Lessons of Darkness. As i have said before the eeriness, of […]
