Well – we’ve done it at last – met up with each other. Elena and I met at the Design Council in London and managed to recognise each other without the threatened wearing of the red carnations! Lots of coffee […]
MOSI Brains: The Mind as Matter This curatorial research trip was to evaluate the design, layout and content of the exhibition. I posed a series of research questions to Pool Arts. I felt this exhibition was a good example to […]
Veronica Lu and I (politely) gatecrashed a conference this morning. It was held at the Folk Art Museum in Gucun Park and was organised by the International Folk Art Association (Chinese, American, Russian, Indian and African delegates). Before we arrived, […]
Scotland and the Russian Doll 4 days after arriving on Arran I left again – briefly – to attend the conference: Imagining Natural Scotland. The first speaker Colin Tudge warned of the dangers of imagining Scotland in isolation, instead he […]
As Franny said, we had a good time. (www.a-n.co.uk/p/564556/) (do pop over and look at the lovely photos we took of each other) She was just as I had imagined. We laughed, chatted, discussed and pondered… there were no awkward […]
The city that distrusts photographers I am great admirer of the Magnum photographers so I looked with special interest at last Sunday Observer colour magazine (17.11.13) which carried a selection of photos they had taken in Marrakech in preparation for […]
First I couldn’t wait, then I found it looming: the day before the private view my head was a meeting-place for a vociferous, foul-mouthed community of doubts, all shouting at the same time. Was my work good enough to be […]
Day 17 – Black to Bloom No 2 Black to Bloom describes the ‘blooming’ of the pigment as it spreads out through the glaze. The pigment diffuses and mimics the circular spots already on the canvas. This painting is composed […]
Pointeso Art Scene: Zindustrious Artist Carlo Tanner whines via his socialist networking blog. I just can’t seem to get ahead. What is my game plan? What am I gonna do next? I ain’t getting any younger that’s for sure. I’ve […]
Following the recent publication of Arts Council England’s updated strategic framework, a-n’s Director attended one of ACE’s briefing sessions in search of a glimmer of hope for artists.
Five artist-led initiatives have been awarded Go and See bursaries to attend this weekend’s Art Party Conference in Scarborough.
‘This image reminds me of home the most, it’s of a grey sky, because the sky seems always unsettled in Birmingham, mostly keeping its grey hues though. I would always sleep with my blinds open so that I could wake […]
15 days to go…. and it’s the same routine – wake up, check if there are any other backers, go to work, check again at the earliest possible chance, come home, check again, read the flurry of suggestions and ideas […]
It was another bright but hazy day today. There are not as many people wearing masks out on the street as I expected, but I’m told that the pollution doesn’t feel as bad at this time of the year. My […]
Before and After – Learning To Be Bold One of the key points that has come out from my two Re:View bursary mentor meetings is that I am still too timid in my work. As a result I have been […]
Prologue It is almost 9 years since my mother, Parvin Azadeh Rieu, was swept away in the Asian Tsunami of 2004, an event which not only totally transformed my personal life, but my arts practice too. Why? perhaps because I […]
I manage to read through one or two Business / Management related books each day. My memory stick is packed with hundreds of pages containing one sentence phrases – in need of editing. Mostly it is intuitive to locate what […]
