Having re-engaged with my practice due to the Artist Teacher Scheme, I am now continuing my journey through the M.A. in Arts Practice and Education. Time to take a deep breath…and here we go!
Donna Southern Updates and Facilitates The Big Draw, 2014. I am updating my images and website, it needs a revamp after ten years. I have changed and developed and the site needs to reflect this. There is a collection of […]
the poetry book is on a journey now , already to the US and New Zealand which is exciting! this path is one of my regular walks when I am in Wales, I realise I have photographs of it throughout […]
How am I to progress in the process of determining which process for printing gives best quality for printing: what an arduous task. Seemingly never ending and its about time I gave up. Having spend more time researching processes than […]
Walking is something I now enjoy, dodgy knees and hips permitting as my walks are generally short, done at at my own pace and with the dog for company. There have been times, including earlier this year, when I have […]
a poetic villa gate ..
Examines design industry’s perceptions of young people, their suitability for work and the neccessary skills and abilities needed to thrive within the sector.
Collaboration and partnerships are seen as key to achieving the overarching goal of “achieving great art and culture for everyone.”
ACE blames local authorities while DCMS points to the Lottery as the sector starts to examine the regional arts funding imbalance.
For this week’s snapshot of international art activity, covering 1-7 November, we’re in New York, Shanghai, Warsaw and the district of Tensta in Sweden.
The visual arts organisations the Arts Council selected for funding as National Portfolio Organisations 2011-15
Victoria Warehouse Hotel, Manchester
25 October – 10 November 2013
‘Art does have a very powerful thing that it can offer you and that is when you get involved in making something you kind of forget yourself for a moment as well. And you also; in little ways, are affecting […]
Curator Session 2 For my second presentation to Pool Arts I felt it was really important to show examples of strong and weak curating. It was also a good opportunity for me to reflect on previous exhibitions I had co-curated. […]
Ticking Over Builders are back on site at home and cracking on. This means I need to be around a lot to answer queries and discuss best approach to problems that arise. They are brilliant and make me smile as […]
Alistair Hudson from Grizedale Arts came to talk to us yesterday, about their role in the Office of useful Arts http://arteutil.net/main/ (as part of ‘Art Turning left’) http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/art-turning-left-how-values-changed-making-1789-2013 I think I must be living in a complete bubble sometimes as […]
If you’re going to be rejected, you couldn’t get a nicer way to do it than this – and they had 1500 applications to reply to… Dear Susan , Thank you so much for your application to the Sustainable Arts […]
This October I made a trip to Eindhoven, invited by one of my mentors, Annie Fletcher, to attend the Arte Util seminar at the Van Abbemuseum. Arte Util is a project initiated by Tania Bruguera that looks at art as […]
A very good day – magical, playful, a feeling of childlike excitement. Actual glee. Just home, feeling exhilarated and animated after a first day of collaboration with For The Love of People, who are artists Caroline Hick http://bobbyhick.tumblr.com/and Jez Coram […]
Ho ho ho! ‘Blog’ is No 7 on Top of the Pops………means lots of you are reading this quietly and silently behind closed curtains……come on out into the light! Let yourselves be known! We might like each other……. Seriously, its […]
Really excited to be collaborating with a Contemporary Applied Artist from HCA – Matthew Day. On my mapping the college a few weeks ago – while I was observing on the stairs we got talking about his and my work […]
– MN Transparency, instability, flexibility “Such projects, had they been built, would have produced a rich, shimmering and illusory world of reflections.” Rosemarie Haag Bletter’s 1981 paper The Interpretation of the Glass Dream explores glass/crystal symbolism in Expressionist – in […]
