In my last post I mentioned that my original intention was to work from melded digital imagery. This was to try and muster the sensation of feeling trapped, contained, and wanting to externalise how I felt. The tension in yourself […]
Both: written text and art work If the nature of the gaze has multiple, shifting possibilities, what perspectives are possible and how might it feel to encounter each? Can a text successfully invoke some element of the very emotions it […]
i see a lot of images on Facebook. there seems to be trends and circularity within what i see. some inspire, some annoy, some amuse. some i remember. there’s one image that proclaims that one should be warry of artists […]
The identity of a space is revealed through photographs and video works. A domestic passageway, a public underground staircase, an empty market hall. All transient, and all suspended in time. What isn’t communicated is their significance. Why are we presented […]
I have my final presentation and assessment on Tues 27th May. I haven’t thought about the presentation yet. However writing 500 words on wet Bank Holiday seems like a good option at the moment. The last two weeks have passed […]
The last week has been really busy with sorting out the studio ready the degree show and assessment. Im feeling really good about everything so far, I got my walls painted, helped move everything out the studio and then put […]
After what seems to be about a month, or maybe more, I am delighted to say that my second piece of cast glass is out of the kiln and ‘resting’. The process has taken twice as long as it should […]
Today I have been concentrating on my large board for the degree show which is rapidly approaching. I am really pleased with its outcome today as I found the character of the landscape. The layering of paint has given the […]
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has issued a statement saying the destruction of the structure and majority of the contents of Glasgow School of Art has been prevented.
Fire fighters in Glasgow are tackling a major blaze at Glasgow School of Art’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building.
Bob and Roberta Smith’s Art Party film is to be released on 21 August and will be accompanied by a series of parties across the UK.
Tate Britain, London
31 March – 19 October 2014
22nd May. Today I started to put my quotes on to the wall. The first quote I decided to put up was “is this taking the piss?” I chose this one because this was one of my bigger quotes. I […]
Saatchi Gallery Visit Cont. The layering process that she uses to create her paintings gives a creates a sense of depth and perspective. The paint looks as if it were blasted onto the canvas. Created with layers of oil and […]
Topography Disarranged opened last night and what a fantastic turn out. Good company, warm wine, great artwork, sunny, mellow evening light and horses in the field. Thanks to Chloe for letting us spruce up her studio as a second Project […]
So I’ve had many a sleepless night over my large canvas I mentioned in blog post 30. I kept thinking – I’ve started this all wrong! As I said I started the painting of it formally to find the structure […]
A Bad Day to Draw I chose three interesting female faces to tackle with grey toned marker pens. I began well motivated, keen and positive. Sadly I didn’t finish well motivated keen and positive. The first two went wrong from […]
Tis the season of the art prizes. I saw the announcement of the Catlin art prize today. I’m not really bothered about these kinds of prizes because as a filmmaker it’s completely irrelevant to me, but as a cultural critic […]
The artists for the 2014 edition of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which will this year form part of the Liverpool Biennial programme, have been announced.
The German photographer Michael Schmidt has been selected as the winner of this year’s Prix Pictet photography prize, for his series investigating the ways in which we feed ourselves.
Esther Teichmann’s Fractal Scars, Saltwater and Tears, published by Self Publish, Be Happy, is an ambiguous and dreamy rumination on loss, longing, femininity and the nude. Tim Clark steps into an imaginary world of desire and finds a vertiginous exploration of womanhood.
