I started my blog by looking at some of the artists that I admire, noting how they represent the sublime and the sense of place and time in their work. What I want to do in my work is research […]
Monday I went to the studio and gessoed and gessoed my lovely new big canvas. I did more coats today so I reckon there are about 5/6 coats-hope that is enough!!! Had a Clay Station meeting so got a bit […]
My creative practice is continueing to develop and I am currently half way through my third year, starting to make work for my degree show. Here is some of my most recent work produced within the past 6 months.
BA (Hons) Fine Art. This course allows you to explore the varied appoaches used in the art world.
At the start of this blog I am reminded of two tutors comments 1, ‘What you put in is what you will get out.’ 2 ‘This course will change your life’ both comments reasonate with me as my art practice […]
Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire reveal how their artistic and research ethos will lead the way for their fundraising priorities in their joint, Catalyst fund-supported project, How to work together.
The arts funding body for Scotland is seeking feedback on a draft version of its new plan for 2014-24.
As part of its programme, Artworks Navigator developed this bibliography to identify and present a range of available resources for artists working in participatory settings.
A summary of the key learning from four Artists Labs run between August 2012 and January 2013 by the Navigator pathfinder as part of ArtWorks.
As part of its programme, Artworks Navigator developed this bibliography to identify and present a range of available resources for artists working in participatory settings.
A summary of the key learning from four Artists Labs run between August 2012 and January 2013 by the Navigator pathfinder as part of ArtWorks.
I will be exploring ideas about the mystery and darkness of the sea. My work will be in the form of paintings.
continued from above He is one in a long line of soldier-fathers/husbands/sons who came home and never talked about their experiences, carried their baggage alone, maybe, if at all, shared with other returned soldiers. But he is also apart (hear […]
I have been staring at images of my father taken when he became a soldier at 17 and two years later as a POW in the US. Besides the various uniforms all I can see is a soft, young face, […]
Exploring possibilities with sound and projection (until I fused the plugs). The sound collaboration with Michael Hobson has created a new dimension to the space. It is designed for a dark space where the shadows are not meant to be […]
Its took me a long time to start writing this blog, as I wanted to begin by think about what inspires me and really defines my work. I have been having a really hard think over the holidays about where […]
The object abuse collages are pulling up lots of material from the past, in the shape of particular techniques that obsessed me at the time but which never resolved themselves into finished work. As an example, the approach of To […]
My artist journey started at college where I began to look at how different artist had tackled the idea of beauty in their own way. I began to look at the artist Yves Klein, his body prints really fascinated me. […]
Humour is essential. I address a range of issues in my practice. The individual and collective, the impact of institutional systems and structures which digs deeper into our everyday and what makes us manoeuvre. Yet when my work is presented […]
Thursday blog 3 i lie its not thursday its tuesday and i am 5 days late for my blog oops i do have a good excuse! so how is it all going? i have had a fantastic reponse to my […]
number one has been sent. oh what a lovely line and it’s about the first application of the twelve. the moments before it went i pushed myself through the metaphorical funnel to make sure all was well it with and […]
nan’s curtains 18 sets of 1/12th size remade curtains, each approx 14 x 21 cms. Almost there. Thinking about what we actually ‘do’ with curtains, led me to consider the repetitive motion of opening and closing curtains every day. Curtains […]
I’m notoriously bad at keeping a diary, as it always seemed strange to me to record the often mundane events of a day. This, methinks, will be different. This I will write in the way that I think; the way […]
Week 63: 25th November – 1st DecemberAlthough the focus of my work is artists’ books, and I have been creating and exhibiting this type of work since 2007, I’ve never really done any formal training in bookbinding. Artists books and […]
Ruth Payne The work I produced for Straight, the first stage of the collaboration, uses paper objects which have performed their primary function (shopping lists, brochures, paper napkins, free newspapers, opened envelopes, empty seed packets). These are the fragments machine-stitched […]
