I am pleased to be participating in Revolve:R; a project in visual correspondence, by Sam Treadaway and Ricarda Vidal, in collaboration with a number of international artists, writers, and curators. Each piece will become a page in a book, both […]
From its base in rural Cambridgeshire, Wysing Arts Centre has been supporting artists to make new work for the past 25 years. We hear from artistic director Donna Lynas, and artists Emma Smith and Seb Patane, about the future aims of the organisation and how the its well-regarded residency programme fosters creative relationships.
This week our snapshot of what’s happening internationally finds us in Madrid, Barcelona, Beirut, Zurich and New York.
Next Tuesday I have a formative assessment which involves presenting my work. As a result this week I have been frantically making new drawings and my ideas have moved on. I started to make movement drawings related to walking around […]
I have continued to work with hair and makeup and I believe this is what makes up my identity as sad as it sounds. I was worked with some of my old hair extensions and lipstick to create two pieces […]
We recently had a critical work review with our tutors to see how we are progressing and what some of our ideas are for are final degree project. With my own personal work we talked about what routes I could […]
Since we had our critical view I have been thinking of different ideas on how to deepen my art and make it much more personal, something people could really connect with. I have jotted down a few little notes and […]
11th February Feeling shit today, about my work. I don’t know why? I see others getting recognition for there Art and praise of their skill, and I get nothing. Clearly I’m not connecting enough with the viewer and not doing […]
In the past couple of weeks I have discovered TRUE LOVE… yes – it’s welding. I am currently on the AA2A (artist’s access to Art college) scheme at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. This gives 100 hours of access to […]
Construction Project Day #4 I’m starting to feel like I’m on a role now. I don’t mean that in a cocky way, I am just relieved that things are moving forward. Day 4, in my opinion has been my most […]
Recollections of Fabrica the building – dark smooth woodiness, glassy squares of light, repetition, dark mottled marble planes, sharply etched text, mid-winter afternoon light, small blobs of intense red & blue, repetition, order, flakey remnants of pew rows, quiet closeness, […]
No amount of shrinkwrapped sad croissant could make up for the five gruelling hours it took to get to London on the Megabus Gold today! Still I arrived excited to visit Lux and dig in their artists moving image archives. […]
The recurrent theme then: Parents and children, the wider family, protection, guidance, strength in the group. Living a life affected by what has gone before: affecting what comes after. Always present, my mother: loving, clever, funny, singing, creatively cooking and […]
i’m in the mood for love… who sang that? quite a lot of people actually(1) where did it begin? difficult to pin down until i read the lines of description. as a citizen of the earth i enjoy the interconnectivity […]
Exploring to find a way It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Edward de Bono. “If you never change your mind […]
For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.
