reflection 5: post-project blues ! Once the much-looked-forward-to opportunity is over there is a bit of a hole and that hole can be filled with the making on mental lists that go along the lines of …I should have…I wish […]
SITE VISIT In my search for materials, I have recently been given permission to access a building whose decrepit state attests to its liberation from utility. Awaiting demolition, in the coming months I will be investigating this transitional environment- a […]
RESEARCHING online. I came across artist Gwyneth Scally and an interesting article on her by Gabriel Del Valle below, I found this inspiring as I have been considering my own approach in possibly using ideas for a sculpture or an […]
I had a minor melt down this afternoon; trying to find the drawings that I knew were mounted and wrapped, that I will be taking to Manchester tomorrow for w0budong. I think my brain scrambled all the info inside it […]
For the last four years SLWA have actively been involved at the Women of the World Festival (WoW) during International Women’s Day in March. We normally promote our organisation and artists inside the Royal Festival Hall. This year was different […]
Firstsite, Colchester
23 November 2012 – 9 March 2014
Attending two quite different explosion workshops this week (as part of the ‘Normalcy Cluster’ activities – not that I really understand what that means) has led me to wonder if I am spreading myself too thin. This wondering concerns the […]
Catholic nuns were required to wear linen breast binder under their outfits. The rationale was that binding the breasts of nuns would reduce distraction and encourage faithful obedience to abstinence. Women have used binding to help them pass as a […]
PAGE 6, A PROPOSAL, A DAY IN THE STUDIO After what seems like a very long period of planning, organising, proposal writing and generally doing all the boring stuff that hopefully sets everything up for the next few months (fingers […]
I tell my tutor that I am exploring my relationship with familiar objects. “Why use paint?” she asks “why not take moulds of these objects and explore your ideas in 3D?” “Because I want to explore the relationship between abstract […]
For this week’s (7-13 March) snapshot of international art action, we’re mostly in New York but also take a peek at Warsaw and Doha.
After ongoing protests from participating artists, including the withdrawal of nine, the board of the Sydney Biennale has announced that it is severing its links with founding sponsor Transfield.
Throughout March, venues across the North-East are hosting exhibitions, film screenings and live performances as part of the biennial AV Festival, which this year is themed around the idea of ‘extraction’. We report from the opening weekend and take in some of the key shows in Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
Peter Doig’s work has recently been inspirational to me, and of particular relevence to work I am developing. His land and seascape works depict aspects of the horizon which has been a recent focus in my work. (see images ) […]
When NOT TO blog, and when TO blog, became an internal argument with myself about HOW to blog… I was accused of copping out after my last post. So while this streaming cold I have ensures my sporadic insomnia becomes […]
I have recently been working on my three themes: the displaced goddess, religion and primogeniture. The three ways women have lost power in society. Women are oviously better off in Europe than they are in middle eastern countries . In […]
How not to conduct a Skype collaboration – background sound included radio, hammering many nails, loud conversation and bickering. Last night was my final collaboration of the residency and was with Toronto artist and curator Araya Vivorakij, done by Skype. […]
Through being interested in the artists I am interested in (most of which use active paint) I have focused on similar areas to them in my exploration of flesh e.g screaming mouths – opening flesh – layers. I have been […]
Although I am in various stages of experimenting and relooking at past ideas such as my video of the salt circle and print making, these seem to be on the back burner for the moment. So feeling the need to […]
