Happy New Year! The beginning of 2014 and I am itching to get going. My next pieces are going to involve working on top of old paintings – or – using old paintings that I can’t quite work over yet […]
A lot of the work in Home Truths seems more conventional than we’d expected. Judith expressed it something like this: many works use the familiar trope of connecting childhood with the mother’s body. Many of the photos, Elinor Carucci’s for […]
The day after the visit to The Photographers’ Gallery our eldest said ‘Art’s just chatting.’ We asked her to repeat this so that we could jot it down. ‘Art’s just about conversations. When we were in Denmark you talked to […]
Blue Bayou I have decided to redo my painting Blue Bayou. Initially I produced this as a pure painting (and by this I mean just paint), but I was not entirely satisfied with the result. So instead, I am reverting […]
Happy new year! I actually made it to the studio on Monday. It was not too cold, the doors had swollen with all the rain we have had and I couldn’t get them closed at the end of the day […]
BA Hon Painting
A campaign to stop the Derry-Londonderry venue that hosted the 2013 Turner Prize being turned into new offices is hotting up, with a 400-strong demonstration in the city and a petition demanding a rethink.
At a-n, we know that small awards to artists specifically for self-determined professional development make a big difference. That’s why we’re extending the artists’ bursary programme in 2014.
For the first Now Showing of 2014, our exhibition selections range from JMW Turner at the Scottish National Gallery to David Tremlett at the Ikon in Birmingham.
Following on from my busy year working on the ‘Hidden Landscapes Project’ and adjusting to the new demands of motherhood, I’m still trying to fathom how it’s all going to pan out. My work continues to focus on the town […]
This is my diary about my final year at UCS studying Fine Art
In this blog I am examining the way society is still patriarchal. How do I explore this visually? What images can capture this? How do I cohesively portray this? Can I do this powerfully and aesthetically? How do I avoid […]
Post Script From Chloe Mandy: In Residence December 2013 I realised after four weeks, there is never an epiphany of self realisation when working, simply a series of moments that sometimes follow each other other some times merge and sometimes […]
Currently watching: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010) dir Sophie Fiennes. “OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes and renders as a film journey the personal universe he has built […]
Currently watching: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010) dir Sophie Fiennes. …continued These remains; his artistic leftovers that are individual site-specific works in their own right but also a mega sculpture park of one man’s practice in a defined […]
Working seems to coincide with writing. Usually if I’m not writing then I’m probably not working much either. So keeping a blog seems essential to help me feel that I can track some course of development through a bundle of […]
Saw Elizabeth Price’s video installation “Sunlight” at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea on 28th December 2013. She created artificial sunlight in her video via historic slides of the sun in k light, yellow nail varnish, a cymbal disc, characters from packets […]
First day of residency at Harrington Mill and it has been so productive. Not saying it has been brilliant work but work has been made. What a residency is about I think. Only had one idea in mind before I […]
A drawing of a train done by our middle daughter whilst on our way to London.
Many things are only skin deep and if people think we are an equal society they need to scratch a layer and really look. Women are still blamed and derided. Simple things like the Great British Bake Off unleashed massive […]
On the train to London, in between passing round snacks and thinking of things to draw, we talked to Judith about artist development schemes in East Anglia. For several years Wysing Arts Centre has been running the Escalator scheme. The […]
At The Photographers’ Gallery.
Since October I’ve been on the AA2A scheme at Derby University. I’ve been using their print making facilities to do some lino printing, and most recently, relief printing some pieces of wood. I’ve also been able to use their library […]
The trouble with site specific installation is that you spend a lot of time crossing your fingers. I had a good day the other day when I laid out the paintings and sculptures I will be using in the norm […]
Nan’s Curtains Everyone has curtains but why give them away… we get bored and fancy a change. Good thing that whoever previously hung these curtains wanted to get rid. I found them in a second hand store. My plan is […]
