Talk: Lisa Le Feuvre – Nauman and Failure Thursday 22 May, 5.30-7pm. FREE Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds considers Bruce Nauman’s work through the idea of failure. Taking the exhibition as a […]
The Flamboyant Failures
Construction Project Day #18 Day 18 was full of doubt and uncertainty. After discussing my ideas (up to this point) at the weekend it seemed a hindrance, rather than helping me, it had halted my thinking. Each new idea that […]
Today along with my step sister Lorna we filmed the next part of my video piece. This involved my beagle, George, roaming around the room freely while i was restrained in wool and bandages. It was interesting for me to […]
The blossoms are looking gorgeous now, this warm spell has hastened their arrival, I have been getting ready for my blossom events; the Pop up blossom studio at Derby Quad and exhibition at Hardwick Hall, finishing off the paintings and […]
I am just going to load some images of George taken after the filming had finished today. I like how he is totally relaxed in the environment doing his own thing. His own thing which involves the usual chewing of […]
I did an extra video with Lorna of Lorna while she was tidying up the wool. I really like the distruction of the wool when pulled from the walls. Concurrently i like how the way Lorna does the actions, changes […]
Things that I shoved in the pockets of my bag, such as scraps of paper, labels and receipts, are reminding me of NY things today. I started to keep things of interest after making zines with Jean McEwan over there, […]
I am just loving this sunshine…happy weather!!! :o) Not that I am out in the sun much but it still cheers me up looking through the window- I am busy getting the exhibition ready.This week the aim was to set […]
Day 6
Day 7 Schwitters got it right. Many thanks to Ian and Celia (Littoral Arts Trust) for their generosity and Mark Devereux Projects for facilitating this residency.
I’m going to try to catch up with all the work that I have done throughout the year, I need to quickly revised everything before I start writing my dissertation draft as I need to know better where my work […]
Week 70: 13th – 19th JanuaryIn thinking about the nature of museums, I have focused on the ways in which artists have critiqued the (art) museum format. However, as my initial project focused on anthropological concerns, I felt it necessary […]
In this work in progress, Arrivederci Roma, I attempt to work with an installation approach and to use tools that I have never used before to achieve an interactive outcome. These are fans to achieve movement, spot lights with red […]
Adams, Connors & Payne For us this collaboration has been all about exploring, enquiring, discovering and testing out. Continuing the idea of indirect mark making and 3D forms, we have been exploring containment, viewing, peering in, secret images/messages, words and […]
Seminal works in felt and animal fat by Joseph Beuys, the first survey in Europe of Ursula von Rydingsvard’s meticulously assembled structures, and the largest collection of British surrealist art in the country – this week’s selections take us to Oxford, Wakefield and Kendal, via Milton Keynes and London.
The Intellectual Property Office has published new guidance for copyright holders ahead of reforms to UK copyright law.
As national portfolio organisations in England wait for news on their funding applications to Arts Council England, Three Johns and Shelagh argue that the system is flawed and that it’s time to rethink both what ACE is and what it is for.
Day 5
Something wonderful happened last week: contact&connection was made with the artist Sonia Boué, conceiver of Barcelona in a Bag. She explores memory, war and displacement through her grandmother and father, who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil […]
Perspective, time and reflection. That is it. If I look back and can see why I am so frustrated. I had a purple patch for a few years, where my clients allowed me to have ideas and they worked with […]
Enduring progress! Last week was an amazing turn for my practice; I am so used to taking a couple of rejections per week that I never imagined that I would get a couple of successful applications over two days. In […]
NEWSFLASH Since Eleanor and I departed on this collaborative journey ‘Lessons in Anatomy’, we have individually reached some amazing feats in our visual and literary practices. Eliot North (pen name) has been commended for the above entry in the NHS […]
Ideas for Final Degree Show I now it may be abit early but i can not help myself. I have been thinking about the way i might display many of my works for the degree show and have come up […]
Drawings for layout of video step by step.
