The Newspapers are full of boko haram, ( they do not deserve capital letters), and their shocking arrogant admission about kidnapping over 200 girls and casually saying it is their right to sell them as slaves. Hopefully they have over […]
The exhibition launch was fun. We had cake, and tea. So much more me than nasty white wine and nibbles. It was good to catch up in real-time with Bo, have a proper conversation. Although we were quite busy talking […]
Moving on towards finishing paintings over the last few weeks working on an image that depicts the distant horizon from the shore line I have used various photos as reference points as can be seen from the first images my […]
1st Firm date! (back-dated post from 24th March) Francesca Gavin Post two I am very excited as I have my first Re:view session date confirmed with a mentor: Francesca Gavin – writer, curator and editor. She is Visual Arts Editor […]
Marginal spaces + trees =? At Riverhill I find myself drawn to transitional spaces and the forms of trees. Marginal, in-between places such as footpaths and gateways allow navigation from one area to another. Superficially, they’re modest, inconsequential, and easily […]
As the Degree show draws nearer I am beginning to finalise pieces of work that have been ongoing throughout my project. In relation to my seaside etching prints I have finally decided how they should be printed. It has taken […]
Blogs have been thin on the ground for the past month. My time has been taken up very productively, mainly with gathering source material and acquiring various materials for painting and drawing onto and exploring different approaches to exploit these […]
-> continued from above I remember how, in the first weeks after he died (my mother, brother, sister-in-law and I were with him) I could not recall his life-face. It was overlaid by the face the dead share: gaunt, concentrated, […]
Although I didn’t realise it at the beginning this was always a mourning project, on so many levels, personal, collective, historical, and in the context of WWII and the holocaust necessarily fraught and unsettling. When I read Sonia Boué’s wonderful […]
Today I started work on my large board. I have had the board for a while but I have been waiting for the right picture to start working on it. In my mind this is the piece that will form […]
Still none the wiser about tax…. is it really such a no no in the field of discussion? Why haven’t I just given them a ring to find out? Hmmmm…. Fear of being taxed for earnings that I haven’t made […]
Stained Glass Windows have held a facination for me since I was a child. The windows In these Images are traditional as well as contempoary. This lead me on to the Idea of creating my own out of drawing and […]
1 x installation 3 x digital prints 2x DVD portable players 1x mixed media piece of 9 shelves 5x small paintings on board All this in a suitcase and hand luggage on a Ryanair flight. I am picking up the […]
I have slowly made my way to the framers today having sustained an art related injury. Heavy sanding of a collage in wood has given me tennis elbow and a dodgy shoulder. My collage being framed is based on ‘young […]
I haven’t stopped to think about the individual pieces of work I’m producing enough. I’m impatient to make new work. Around a month ago I began breaking up writing by tearing my (frequently used) small things phrase (in sienna) and […]
Newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists feature in two-part fundraising exhibition for homelessness charity Crisis.
The headline show at this year’s House festival in Brighton & Hove is Yinka Shonibare’s installation of 10,000 reclaimed books at Brighton Museum and Gallery. But as our reviewer discovers, there’s also a satisfying journey of discovery to be had around the festival’s more unconventional spaces.
Creative Scotland have announced the recipients of their bursary programme for artists that seeks to provide time and resources for artists demonstrating ‘a high level of quality, imagination and ambition in their work.’
I attended an exhibition by Darren Johnston on 25t April, It was held in the undercroft of the war memorial in the center of Norwich. Only one person was allowed into the exhibition at one time as this is the […]
