The Customer seems to be enjoying a second wind of life. I’ll be performing it once again in London, this time at Richmix on 31st January, Chinese New Year’s day. Here’s the link for the booking:
Post 4 – Part 3. Custodian M. The rain is getting heavier as I continue the ascent…all this for a peice of rusted metal. If i get across this seemingly vertical field, I might make it to the cottage. I’ll […]
Dilemma I now only use materials I already have, or old clothing/textiles sourced and donated and pinched. I have loads. Thread too. A whole cupboard and a half of threads. People have given me their grandma’s button tins, sewing boxes […]
What kind of a year has 2013 been for you? Well… I’m not important enough to be interviewed, but the question really made me think about how my year has gone. It has been a MASSIVE learning year. 2012 ended […]
Looking back over the way my work has developed over the year and at the questions I’ve asked and the most useful questions from others. I started the year making a box full of books from my response to a […]
APIARY STUDOS, London
8 – 17 November 2013
Performance Space, London
5 – 7 December 2013
This year saw Emily Speed, based at The Royal Standard, Liverpool, nominated for the Northern Art Prize and join the Board of a-n. Busy times, then – so busy, in fact, that she really does need a holiday. Or maybe two…
The Director of Edinburgh Art Festival looks back on the festival’s tenth year, and looks forward to a culturally vibrant 2014 in Scotland.
This year has seen Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams represent his country at the Venice Biennale while, amongst other things, next year he will play a starring role in the programme for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. If only his big toe wasn’t hurting so much…
I forgot to write about our first crit of the new contract (we were down for a month, as per the blog title, but Luisa managed to secure a 3 mo. extension for Loopart to occupy the building until it […]
Time to review my year. 2013 has been a year for eliminating unnecessary time wasting, limiting when I say yes to things. Things that have changed for the better: Being invited to show in two group exhibitions, one local and […]
Post 4. Part 1 Custodian M. The following extract is taken from a diary entry from the last expedition to The Grid. 08.05.2012 It’s raining. R just sent me a text to say he can’t make it this year. I’m […]
For this bumper edition of Now Showing, we present 10 must-see exhibitions to see over the Christmas holidays.
After seven years as head of the Arts Council Collection, in October Caroline Douglas became the new Director of the Contemporary Art Society. She looks back on a hectic, ‘high-octane’ year.
It’s been a difficult year personally and professionally for Bob and Roberta Smith. But the success of the Art Party Conference in November has reinforced his view that it’s always worth advocating for the arts and demanding change.
This is the model I constructed on Sketchup from the video to be included in the exhibition. It arrived in the post from the 3D modellers last week. The form is taken from fourteen lines drawn between the fifteen marks […]
This time, what started as a warm up had results getting towards the subtlety I’m after.
Ooooooh, well…. The concrete canvas was finally delivered after a few hiccups. It’s HEAVY!!!! We had a time getting the 10m roll from the van onto a ‘borrowed’ flatbed trolly and into the service lift, let alone down the hallway, […]
After cleaning up the mess of dirt and grime from stapling/nailing/cutting the concrete canvas last night, I popped into the local pub. They had an event on that’s worth writing home about. CAGIBI collective from Lille was showing print-work along […]
Symbols as the Language of the Unconscious Having this blog has been a way of keeping my mind ticking over and thinking about art even when I have no art to show. Now in my second year of the MA […]
The Longest Night: Be refreshed in the darkness Night cancels out the business of day Inertia recharges the mind Then the day cancels the night And inertia disappears in the light. Though we sleep and rest in the dark, Doesn’t […]
These aren’t the works, they’re plinths and things. This is day 2 of the install, which was December 17th. You can see I’m running behind – it’s the 21st now and it’s been a busy few days in the lead-up […]
Not done much work in the last few days as Christmas has to be sorted!!! I have done a lot of thinking though and have been going round in circles-I have come to the conclusion that 6 months is not […]
Arts Council England prepares to cut NPOs again next year, but strategic funding will take the hit from 2015/16.
