i furthered the answer to my question “can i be an international artist if i don’t travel?” this week. i answered an opportunity to take part in an open source choreography project. the project presents in a browser window audio […]
P/art time I am thinking about what it means to be a part time artist. I wonder how many of us this includes? According to the Big Artists Survey 2011 • 57% of artists generate only 0-25% of their income […]
Week 59: 28th October – 3rd NovemberDespite assertions in the previous post about the art object as representing an end point in a particular avenue of the art-making process, it is clear that objects can still act as effective receptacles […]
Refocus. Rename. Rewrite. What implications do words have? My last blog was called into the VOiD and I think I literally FELL into a void within it – I never quite managed to post anything very much. So. Return to […]
I discovered the work of the photographer Thomas Wrede whilst considering the sublime and the use or not of a horizon – perhaps the omission of a horizon could cause a disorienting effect? I came across a good example of […]
Christmas… lovely but very time consuming! I’m so pleased to be back in the studio. I was researching and thinking during the break and have come back eager to do more experimentation. Just before the break I started a large […]
Back to earth today – no more Tate and Paul Klee. The walls of the gallery needed a bit of making good so the gallery curator and I spent the afternoon sanding and touching up the walls of the gallery […]
The Connect10 shortlist, matching artists with heritage and arts venues for Museums at Night events in May 2014, has been unveiled, ahead of two weeks of public voting beginning next week.
Ikon Gallery will be looking back at key periods from its 50 year history as it celebrates its half century this year, starting with two exhibitions by Jamal Penjweny and John Salt.
Marc Renshaw: The Sporting League. The National Football Museum Date 14 January – 31 March 2014 Urbis Building Cathedral Gardens Manchester M4 3BG Mon-Sat 10-5. Sun 11-5 The artist will be showing selection of works from The Sporting League Series […]
Just wanted to add a photo of a hat i have knitted as it is my first knitted piece that it not just a basic knit pattern. I did the hat so to practise reducing and adding stitches in my […]
FOLLY STONES EXPERT ok its 2014 christmas is OVER the child is back at school and its time to get my thinking cap on again. i have managed to put it off by destracting myself with a mountain of cooking […]
x “There are many ways that you can signify to yourself that you are doing your practice. For example, some people wear a white lab coat or a particular pair of glasses, or always work in a specific place – […]
Im on abit of a mad one today. I decided to stop being a lazy arse and do something creative. I have made a couple video’s to inform the contemporary side of my project. This one is of my beagle […]
Happy New Year lovely people… Well that’s Christmas done and dusted and back in the attic, and New Year spent in Wales and our river still lapping at the top of the arches under the bridge…. Its all a bit […]
The intention of the first residency collaboration is to create a sound scape for the space with musician Michael Hobson. Whilst these ideas are, as yet, a little undeveloped, we have been thinking in terms of something akin to the […]
So, what are the elements of a Patriarchal society? Men in charge obviously, yet it is the insidious influence of Patriarchy on women, that the women themselves unquestionably follow, that concerns me. Women used to be very powerful. Life flowed […]
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
12 Years A Slave, the new feature film from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, has been nominated for 10 BAFTAs, including best film and director.
Despite a major Kurt Schwitters’ show at Tate Britain last year, the future of the German artist’s Merz Barn in Cumbria remains uncertain. Ian Hunter of the Littoral Trust, which bought the dilapidated barn building in 2006, explains how things stand with the project and why the continued involvement of artists is key to its future.
