I bought my first goldfish recently. It died, so I bought another one. Since I’ve had the fish I’ve been thinking about memory span and how fish supposedly only have a 3 second memory. This one also died! I’ve wanted […]
First off, we published our website this week: doggerland.info This hopefully gives a vague indication of things to come from Dogglerland, as well as detailing meetings in Scotland with GENERATORprojects in Dundee, and Many Studios in Glasgow. We have more […]
Intense time working on Grants for the Arts application. We had stalled for a while, waiting to hear Torre Abbey’s response and are now rushing to submit to keep to a self-imposed deadline which gives a coherent timeline to the […]
While I was looking at the work of Robert Morris today I stumbled across the work of a constructivist artist named Vladimir Tatlin. His work visually shares the aspects and materials that are appealing to me in Morris’s work. His […]
Design and interruption This is probably one of my more playful paintings. Using part of a ceiling rose I photographed in a café, I edited the image using Photoshop. Preciseness and exactness in my art are not my strongest points […]
Last week I held an event called ‘talking with objects’ which saw me trying to share some of my research with 20 friends, family and (joyfully) strangers who were interested in what I was doing! It was held in a […]
Isa Genzken, Wim Delvoye, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Shilpa Gupta and Tris Vonna-Michell are among the artists announced to take part in the 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
A three-and-a-half-metre wide excavation will create a wound in the Norwegian landscape, symbolising the sudden and tragic loss of the 2011 Utøya massacre.
The Welcome To Iraq exhibition, one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale, has been relocated to South London Gallery.
Spike Island, Bristol
15 February – 13 April 2014
Matt’s Gallery, London
19 February – 20 April 2014
Where do I start? I’m following so many strands now that identifying one for a post is hard. In the end though the process of editing my proliferating texts helps to temporarily disentangle the mass of knotted threads that hang […]
The Cedric Ford Art Prize Exhibition moves to Nottingham’s Backlit Gallery tomorrow. It will be interesting to see the work in a different space. I’m going to the private view – a chance to network. Backlit Gallery has studio space, […]
I have made my piece for March – in the end it was simple, after watching Newsnight, where Jeremy Paxman summarised the Syria crisis as a 21st century failure. It is a failure of our imagination and our humanity, that […]
This is the canvas I am working on in my studio. Inspired by Basquiat and Twombly, I have used oil stick, spraypaint, pastel, emulsion and pencil. I may use varnish on some areas and add another layer. Anton Ehrenzweig believes […]
MATERIAL After intervening in Dallam House and deconstructing its rooms, I transported the building materials 157 miles back to my studio in the Richard Hamilton Building. I sometimes have a tendency to overthink my work, so to loosen up and […]
Text by Victoria Gray Technicality (Part 1) The technical dimension of the project has challenged my lack of technological skills. As a performance artist, my techniques are techniques of the body and not ‘hardware’ and ‘software’. In order to address […]
Text by Victoria Gray Technicality (Part 2) Correspondences Question: V and O to A How does the sensor sample and transmit data? Can you give us further information about the SDK (Software Development Kit)? Will this be compatible with OSX […]
Text by Victoria Gray Technicality (Part 3) Correspondence Question: V and O to A What is the transmission distance of the sensors? How many sensors can run at any one time? Answer: A to V and O I’m not sure […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 1/5 The Wretched of the Screen collects a number of Steyerl’s landmark essays from recent years […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 2/5 In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective (p.12) Steyerl discusses that with the […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 3/5 In Defense of the Poor Image Steyerl makes a kind of manifesto or definition for […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 4/5 A Thing Like You and Me In this essay Steyerl discusses the image as fragment […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 5/5 Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation Steyerl’s essay on spam is of interest because […]
RUINS At the moment I’m reading Ruins: Documents of Contemporary Art edited by Brian Dillon. I have been contemplating these following quotes in relation to my own work: ‘…sense immediately of a place in progress, not so much derelict as […]
