Transitions continuing.. Images, ideas and aspects of art I am currently working on towards a more reflective approach to looking at art… Philosopher Alain de Botton describes Art as therapy…he describes how “Art can save your soul.” Botton says in […]
Today is an Elliot Smith Day. Some days are. Perfect music to work with… I can tune in and out of it. Some of it washes gently over me, barely making a ripple on my consciousness, my brain carries on […]
Is there such a thing as artist’s block, like the thing you hear that writers suffer from, only for artists? Even when I was at college, I would have months when I just couldn’t seem to make any work, to […]
BA (Hons) Fine Arts
BA (Hons) Fine Arts – Sculpture and Painting
I’m horrified by the persistence of violent conflict involving civilians all over the world. Ours is such a small world, and it is being destroyed. Towns and cities reduced to rubble in Syria, middle-class civilians in Kiev making ‘napalm’ bombs, […]
Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.
Bristol-based artist Katie Davies, whose video works explore ‘the politics of spectatorship’, has been awarded the joint Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival residency.
The plaster casts of my shadow form are still not as interesting as I thought they would be! This is quite hard to admit after having spent so much of my time at Mejan producing the mould – I wonder […]
Original idea 15th January 15.21 Looking around the studio at university most of the Art that I see is painting on canvas. Is this what is expected of an Art student who does a Fine Art course? I was thinking […]
While Studying Media I developed a key interest in the portrayal of women in film, I analysed every inch of a characters representation. (Including Mise-en-scene, Attitude, Clothing, and Appearance) One the most Iconic sex symbols is Marilyn Monroe. The re-occurring […]
I thought I would carry on with a part 2 from my previous post describing mosaic making. I’d stopped at the point where everything is in place and things start getting good and where some kind of gratification starts coming […]
Today was a day that I shared my art publicly in a very revealing way for me. I felt very vulnerable and exposed, but, the people that I gave it too, took it with such love and gratitude that my […]
Here are some more images of Alessandro’s piece titled Parcel, this time in the various locations mentioned in the previous post, emphasisng the concept of waiting.
Construction Project Day #5 Moving away from circular bulbs for the day and instead I concentrated on strip lights. My natural inclination was to hang them from the ceiling in different configurations in order to find out and test which […]
Lindsay Connors: Progressing the idea of indirect markmaking we have been experimenting with a series of photograms, inspired by the images, objects and marks that we identified in the works from Ros and Niki. Here are the results of a […]
day 2 – part 2: A quiet afternoon didn’t lead to much but I began to get a sense of the subleties of the space. Enjoyed an engaging converstaion with Liz Whitehead, co-director of Fabrica, weighing up the difficulties and […]
day 3: All vey quiet and made some headway into finding ways of breaking up the building (mainly at 3am !). Am looking back at when I cut into a building to disrupt the space and so am thinking of […]
Hannah Höch – Whitechapel Gallery I have never been particularly interested in politics or economics which is maybe why I find it difficult to contemplate Höch’s work within this context. What is much more intriguing from my point of view […]
‘Sink painting’ A small experimental painting, spending most of its time in the sink. I mix up some paint with water pour it over the canvas (when it is in the sink), then I run the tap over it and […]
The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman died on 19 February 1994. To mark 20 years since his death from an AIDS-related illness, a series of events and screenings are happening throughout the year, including two recently opened exhibitions in London. We talk to the shows’ curators and explore the riches on display.
