Second chapter. Westminster Reference Library. In reverse it started with an opening and performative collective reading. It made me realise how much I have worked on in the first part of my residency (November 2013) including large scale installation photographs, […]
Artists working with Museums I was intrigued to see a number of recent FB and twitter posts marketing multiple-choice options for the public to select what museum an artist should work with. The Connect 10 vote is a social media […]
My previous research into artists creating and deconstructing museums (in week 53) has led me to consider the ways in which artists have intervened in museums, either through being commissioned to respond to the collection, creating interpretive works, or sometimes […]
I have been experiencing a feeling of panic this week. I made a rash decision to book my flight to Berlin, just to feel like I was taking decisive action. Anyway, 11th March is the date set for my journey. […]
**Idea** I had an idea! This idea is to buy some glass vials/bottles from the shop that have cork plugs. Every time I have an idea, I am going to write it onto a piece of rizzla and place it […]
To start this new post christmas term, my research will begin with Cy Twombly. Twombly was a big influence in my work during the first term of last year and helped me progress technically. This quote from his website defines […]
From the last two years doing my degree I feel my technical ability with portraiture is getting a lot stronger, and I would like to create something for the degree that is different to what I’ve done before. I think […]
I don’t really know how much I should write here anymore… I have been warned that this could get me into trouble… legally handcuffed. A sense of fear prevails at work… an apathy… the stench of defeat… people broken and […]
Recipes for Dyeing Rangers, Gardeners and Estate Workers, have all been intrigued by my water experiments. A weaver from the island was called up regarding natural dyes; black oak galls were suggested. Gardeners checked the estate inventory, sadly no Quercus […]
I have always seen gardening as a lovely way to pass time in the outdoors. Watching, over time, as a seed miraculously turns into a magnificent plant of amazing beauty… even the ‘weeds’. A few years ago an artist friend […]
Fabulous news, I managed to pick up some sparklers today. Good old John Lewis does it again. I’ve sorted out the pantry in to a make shift darkroom, looking really forward to tomorrow.
Progress! Painting on a larger scale than my recent work. One of my tutors mentioned John Cage in relation to the work I’m making now. The scale of this work meant I worked quite differently on the top, middle and […]
Went for a walk and took some great images of the sky and how the light was so changable. Love the images but not sure what to do with them, might just keep taking them and make them in to […]
Today’s work grasp. Working with some of the forms I found interesting from yesterdays painting.
The Pointeso Biennale. The Hessler Biennale stems from a project by the Traye Presele Collective, directed by Terry Plasover in 2009. Following the Indentine Biennale’s closure in 1995 the Biennale proceeded by an annual event from 1999– 2003 entitled ‘Mystified […]
The Fine Art course at campus Suffolk allows each student to explore every aspect of modern art, the historical contexts and to create practical work. BA (Hons) Fine Art.
A project, by Art Space Portsmouth artist Adrian Mundy, using gardens and plants and turning them into a new body of work with exhibitions in 2016.
I wrote this for axisweb: The South West Scene From the closure of established arts organisations to the freezing of Discretionary Business Rates Relief (DBRR), recent times have been challenging for the contemporary arts across the UK. And the South […]
Polly Staple, director of Chisenhale Gallery in London’s East End, has been awarded the £25,000 Genesis Award for mentoring in the arts.
In a move that aims to emphasise its history as a membership organisation, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts is to reintroduce its £1 Day Membership scheme.
Electra Costa, Hilary Ellis, Alison South, Holly Wisker & Evanthia Afstralou, 'ExtraOrdinary Quotidian', 22nd January ? 1st February 2014. Bringing the work of five emerging artists together, this exhibition seeks to enable a dialogue to emerge from within the unspoken narratives that formulate our everyday encounters.
The Sheep have gone. In the run up to xmas I noticed that the sheep have gone from the golf course! I have walked over there again 2-3 times now since noticing this. There are a conciderble amount of damaged […]