What happened to the Agencies? Having ran into difficulties finding suitable models to paint from life I was glad that I had not put all my eggs in one basket. From the outset I intended to paint also from found […]
10 years Titles can be a very important part of the identity and meaning of a work. The best ones can add more layers for a viewer to explore or, if the artist wishes to direct them to where they […]
This blog follows French & Mottershead’s work with Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Carolyn Rando, who will be advising us during the development of new work Afterlife … a series of audio monologues reflecting on death and human decomposition. Information about our […]
Tresnote Gallery…Outer Zone. Pre – emerging artist Maiselle Helter enters the white cube styled gallery following an email confirmation from the director: Stephane Claude. She’s feeling a bit parched after a thirteen and a half hour journey from the northern […]
The Sporting League: Game 18 Universo Collunteen were sensationally knocked off the top spot after a sensational implosion against relentless Kite Vale…losing by FIVE goals to nil. Universo gaffer: ‘We just didn’t turn up today. It’s dissappointing for the fans […]
Every day in the news there is something that just reinforces what a shocking Patriarchal world we live in. The latest horror story is from the Sudan where a woman – who is a doctor and eight months pregnant, has […]
At the heavy wooden doors they await, just as their ancestors once did, carried by horse and cart. Reclining in rows, one behind another, queuing to be wheeled through the second phase in this new journey of ‘donating one’s body […]
My degree project is coming together: 1. I have decided on how I will use the space. 2. I have sorted out the covering – acrylic and ordered and paid for it, arranging delivery for Friday 30 May. Today I […]
Yesterday I went to the Open Forum session led by Matt Roberts Arts at the Bath Artists’ Studios where I had a one-to-one portfolio session with Matt Roberts where I had the chance to discuss with him ways to promote […]
Untitled I wanted to make a post that addresses my decision to name all of my works Untitled. I don’t believe it’s the most important thing concerning my art, but it is post worthy. The reason I decided to leave […]
Thoughts on Religion I was quite young when I realised that I didn’t believe in God. I had always gone to an Anglican Methodist church school, yet they failed to install any sense of belief in me. I remember the […]
Through my own growing realisation due to a personal experience of disconnection from nature i believe this project is the start of an ongoing enquiry and visual dialogue into how the modern industrialised societies disconnection from nature is causing symptoms […]
A Beautiful piece of Poetry. This man and composition was chosen from a number of stills from video footage. He appealed to me because of his look and because of what he had to say and how he said it. […]
“Gotta stay on the scene”. James Brown It would be easy to drift off course and to bend my project to suit the work I’m making, so to stay on the case, I do need to restate some of the […]
I find installation art more thought provoking than paintings or drawings. I personally feel unchallenged when viewing such artworks. Perhaps it is the often similar format of a rectangular/square canvas which has ‘just been painted.’ Don’t get me wrong, I […]
For the past few weeks I have had my commercial head thoroughly screwed on. As a contemporary artist untroubled by the stigma that is ‘making a bit of money’, I have decided to thrust myself into the realm of selling […]
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
4 April – 4 May 2014
We have posters ready to send to printers for our degree show. It took a while but everything has been organised now, just need to do vinyls stickers for gallery space and window. If you are in Brighton between the […]
I’ve been doing further research into Fiona Banner (http://www.fionabanner.com/). Katrina M. Brown said of Banner’s work “but what we’re really looking at is the gap between function and failure – a word spelled incorrectly collapses the relationship to meaning and […]
At this point I have chosen the six images that I will be using for the degree show. These images are the second series which I specifically created for the show. I wanted to introduce the colour pink into this […]
When I look back over this blog, coming up to its third anniversary, there have been quite a few times when I have described a feeling of being in limbo… waiting for something. Here I am again. I have three […]
Day 9 of my open studio as part of Powys Arts Month. I’m open together with four other artists – painting, illustration, automata, photography, drawing. Its been amazing but my head is so full of conversations that Im experiencing information […]
House of Illustration have appointed a new director in time for the grand opening of the world’s first gallery and education space for illustration.
Andrew Dodds and Alan Goulbourne take up first posts in a 3-year residency programme celebrating Welsh waterways.
