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 […]
The highly-regarded Director and Chief Executive of Arnolfini, Tom Trevor, is leaving the institution for pastures new.
An ongoing funding bias towards London is denying huge proportions of England’s population fair access to the arts, according to a new independent report by three senior arts figures.
The Seven on Seven conference in London paired seven artists with seven technologists and challenged them to create and present something new in 24 hours. But as Lesley Taker reports, the event was as much about developing new dialogues and potential future collaborations as it was about creating ‘neat’ outcomes.
Arnolfini, Bristol
28 September – 17 November 2013
One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden
12 October – 9 November 2013
Thank you for all your questions which have been hurled into the swirling mix. Food preparation for SAUCED is cooking up nicely. More tasty question ingredients are still needed to garnish our menu. Please submit home grown morsels in good […]
When it works, oh my god does it feel good. Maybe it s the time pressure now (23rd November deadline) or maybe that I ve cleared some baggage out of my life or maybe just my cheeky little star chart […]
Wise Words I read this today by Richard Tuttle and think its brilliant. This is what I will be reflecting on with regards to my practice. “When the work comes to a point, at that point should be freedom and […]
‘I should have done art – I liked art more’ October 30th Portsmouth I tempted fate with the last post and have ‘missed a couple of months’ before adding with this post – as with the Konfirm blog – I […]
‘Raining cats and logs’ October 31st Portsmouth Catching up post – no 1 sat with cat as the raincreates aural distracting patterns on the plastic roof above me…. Mapping exhibition: A Work in progress Friday 11th October A ‘two weeks […]
‘The wood green’ October 3rd 2013 Portsmouth – London – Portsmouth National Poetry Day Awake at 4am – up at 6am 2 hours spent working thru stuff in my head with virtual paint and pencils – best of all no […]
‘come you lost atoms’ Portsmouth November 1st 2013 A second day of catching up with blog posts – I am nearly there – much has happened but that will stay silent – unwritten – unknown – I am sat in […]
The exhibition is in a 600 year old listed building. There’s no wifi and no phone signal. So the plan to tweet, blog, facebook etc every day has sort of flown out of the leaded windows. By the time I’ve […]
A new artist-led space at the heart of Manchester’s city centre is aiming to provide emerging artists with essential support and professional practice development.
