In the Open My base is ‘the glade’, I’m working up close to the smell of sap from fresh-cut leaves, stepping back to inspect my progress, each footfall is cushioned in a plush carpet of leaf mould and moss, the […]
Well, what sort of blogger is too busy to write their blog. The answer is “this sort of blogger”. Too busy finishing the work for the exhibition, installing it, having a Private View, hanging another exhibition of my drawings, having […]
I’m exhausted! I’ve started to paint and get rid of the white on my large canvas. It’s taken a lot of my energy moving the paint around a surface this big. A few things have come up while I’ve been […]
13th may 2014 So today I stand with 614 left to cut!! And the blisters are starting to show!! And to top it off I want my letters cut out by the end of this week, that’s by the 16th! […]
Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery has responded to widespread criticism from artists and withdrawn an advert for unpaid volunteers to help install a forthcoming exhibition by Glasgow artist Jim Lambie.
Students at University of the Arts London have launched a petition calling on the university to scrap a 20% commission on sales of work at degree shows.
a-n’s programme of professional development workshops and seminars for artists and visual arts freelancers continues this summer with new events just announced in Stoke-on-Trent and Nottinghamshire.
The Critical Engineering Manifesto Julian Oliver, Gordan Savičić, Danja Vasiliev & On Friday Night Drinks, Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle The Affect Theory Reader, Melissa Gregg The groups selected texts led to a long discussion around precarity […]
LOOKING GOOD Looking back on the last year – I’m starting to feel quite optimistic. Sold another painting at the weekend – a long slow-burning lead from the very first exhibition I did, in Brick Lane, after Graduation. I’ve made […]
Degree show So…I have decided for the degree show I am going to go ahead with my wall of quotes. I have been allocated a bigger space then what I was originally working on. Therefore i have to adapt my […]
I find that some of my best work has been produced when I have been melancholic. When I am happy I am not so inclined to make art. It is a brutal world we live in and many things are […]
Trials and Tribulations of working on a large scale. The next painting I am leading up to will be 120 x 160 cms. The ratio of dimensions and the scale for this painting are very important. I can fit the […]
Spiderman meets Rosie and Jim! What an alarming scenario. Video tapes knotted to create a turret in a happy day in the studio followed by a couple of hours research in the library. Began Peter Osborne’s book, Anywhere or Not […]
Tilted heads… When I had a break from blogging I had just mentioned I had started a curved neck portrait (Head Tilted I). I have since worked on this and started another painting from the same series of photographs. I […]
Provost statement Since the concerns of Jason Haye were raised with the Provost, a number of discussions have taken place between the Provost, Jason, the UCS Union and the Department involved. We are all in agreement that the most important […]
Richard Lister Provost and Chief Executive University Campus Suffolk Waterfront Building Neptune Quay Ipswich, IP4 1QJ 02 May 2014 Dear Richard Having met with one your students, Jason Haye, on 1 May 2014, I felt it important to write this […]
Flax sowing at Tuppenny Barn Since hearing that I didn’t get my Arts Council funding I’ve not been sitting around moping. I’ve been very busy working on my project, especially starting to get my plots ready and sowing my crops. […]
“I went from being an artist who makes things, to being an artist who makes things happen.” – Jeremy Deller. “What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqAggmwyMU&hd=1 The above link takes you to the Tate short film about the restoration of the Rothko painting, one of the paintings from the Seagram Murals series, which was damaged with graphiti ink over a year ago. I have books […]
Make first – Think Later. This post is necessarily retrospective in that the work forming the subject, was made some time ago. And it wasn’t Art, rather, just a couple of bits of hoarded tat that I had an urge […]
Got somewhat overtaken by bringing the margins into my local village halls. Took the discussions with Trevor Pitt and Zoe Shearman to heart and steered the ship, no bus, accordingly. What a spectacular package evolved in a day. http://flamingskirtfestival.tumblr.com These […]
Monologue of a Trapped Bee. My canvas is here! I’ve already started to prime it! While I was doing this I looked up and saw (and heard) a bee trapped inside the window. I had a thought watching him that […]
Lately I have been working on more photos which include water as I feel these are the most effective. I really love the links between my work and the character Ophelia in Hamlet. Although I am happy with the outcome […]
-> continued from above There is something so vulnerable in this though, and important. The best I can do is press on as carefully as possible, with his help. It’s not an exercise in separation, rather the opposite. Looking this […]
American Beauty is a 1999 American Drama Film. The film stars Kevin Spacey who plays an office worker who becomes infatuated with his teenaged daughters best friend. The film has been described by academics as a satire of American Middle […]
