A year on from the implosion of Creative Scotland and a year before the independence referendum, where do things stand at the funding body? Johnny Gailey attends a recent Open Session event in Glasgow hosted by CEO Janet Archer, and finds the organisation caught in a curious state of flux.
Hayward Gallery, London
24 September – 15 December 2013
A day in the studio today….briliant. Lovely chatty people around. Not so busy in the morning but filled up in the afternoon. Mostly screen printers – and I met my next door neighbour who turns out to be a textile […]
Here I am again, two posts in two days after a long absence. How strange, but I sort of need to put into words some reflection on my current situation and how it will probably feed into new work. My […]
Day 22 – Field 1 Plants contain pigments of such surprising colours. The summer of 2013 preserved here in resin forever!
Day 23 – Dioxazine Dioxazine. What a great name! Dioxazine Violet is the name of a particularly wonderful shade of purple which I’ve recently fallen in love with. But despite its synthetic-sounding name it actually comes from coal tar, and […]
barren 26.11.13 Monkeys Fists Project Linearity underscores the workshop I am to embark on at Aberdeen University with an anthropological research group ‘The Knowing Project’. Exploring projects on our knowing of materiality we are looking at being with material rather […]
“The golden rule is just to follow one’s obsessions.” Eduardo Paolozzi “Paolozzi is all about the unexpected – as anyone brave enough to sign up for his Masterclass in Edinburgh this summer will quickly discover” – art critic Iain Gale. […]
<CP> Eddie and I worked on our first shoot on Saturday. Mixed with excitement, I’d been worrying about it too. While chatting over coffee with a friend the day before I became aware that I was not listening to what […]
At 8am students are already arriving at the studios. The Public Art course has a great space, or at least I thought so until Yijia, my host and lecturer on the course, says that other disciplines have much better studios. […]
Art Party Conference then… A bit of a jolly? Yes. Definitely. A meeting of like minded folk? Of course. A day of great conversations mainly. The highlight for me, was the witnessing of the conversation between Stephen Deuchar, Cornelia Parker, […]
Those heavily fatigued days when tiredness suffuses my whole being, not only stop my limbs from functioning, but, and this is worse, make me feel as if my intelligence had sunk away. When I start improving a bit I have […]
This video makes a square. Or really a rectangle. Now. I’m a bit suspicious of the timing and speed of my edit. It reads to me like one of those very efficient (comically so?) instructional videos. I decided to cut […]
This month has been a proper UP and DOWN in my practice. UP because I have been pleased with the reception of “La Mujerzuela (The floozy)” from people. I know that there is more potential in playing with these objects […]
I’ll be performing an excerpt of The Customer at The Bargehouse on The Southbank on 1st December. Talks followed by performances: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zealousx-talk-09-cre…
A while ago I went into a gallery in Ipswich to see what was going on, on the off chance, and what did I find? Not just any exhibition, but This Me of Mine, an exhibition organised by Jane Boyer. […]
Everything is rubbish. Rubbish research is slow progress lately. In fact it’s taken a backwards turn. My laptop decided to commit suicide and 3 specialist declared the hard drive ‘goosed’ (technical term) with no data retrievable. Some of my research […]
AdEx Collaboration: Artists’ Rubbish This week is less rubbish; and more rubbish. I was invited by Jack at AdEx to guest curate their first online exhibition and thought up something rubbish (of course). I’m inviting artists to contribute by uploading […]
Sporting League: Game 5 Results Leaders Athletico performed a ‘smash n grab’ performance with a goal at the death to deny Red Star a deserved point. Athletican gaffer: ‘Yeah, we were second best out there until the ninetieth min – […]
– MN “Each framework supports the reflections of a concatenated interior. The interior structure of the room surrounding the work is instantaneously undermined … “Space” is permuted into a multiplicity of directions. One becomes conscious of space attenuated in the […]
Over a 1000 artists descended on Scarborough for the Art Party Conference, instigated by the artist Bob and Roberta Smith. A day of marching, debating and discussion, a-n joined in the action with provocations and special events. Jack Hutchinson reports.
Our selection of not-to-be-missed shows this week includes a celebration of Dylan Thomas’ most enduring work by Sir Peter Blake in Cardiff, international artists examining the human form in London, and an exhibition of drawings and paintings in Bristol by an artist best known for his vividly-coloured sculptural installations.
