The 9th Battle of Ideas, initiated by The Institute of Ideas, saw a panel of critics and public art producers debate whether much of public art is actually an insult to the public.
Changing Priorities Yellow Wagtail and a Song Thrush done and Whitelands Farm is finished. I have other things to do now and the fourth mosaic will not be my next task. But I thought I would write a detailed description […]
Getting turned down for something can just be a spur to get on and either do the thing anyway or funnily enough it can turn out that you didn’t need the help anyway. With this in mind my planned collaboration […]
Second Mentor Meeting – The Fall Out. Well I finally had my second mentor meeting last week. I have to confess it left me pretty shaken. We discussed artwork which is decorative but has very little or no substance beyond […]
Some images from the performance at PERFORM NOW festival in Winterthur where The Customer Is Always Wrong was performed in Mandarin with German translation.
I’ve been around Frequency Festival between exhibiting The Lincoln Simulacrum, and I’ve been kidnapped by virtual clowns, learnt to dance in the House Of Mystery, I’ve seen angels glimpsed through the corner of your eye, I’ve been Ulrika for a […]
Images here are of my replica cups made with receipts. Some wouldn’t come off their mould (a large yoghurt pot) and so are torn – I had wanted to make bucket sized cups and so this was somewhere in between. […]
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Too much text, was my first thought; knee-jerk gut reaction. But I was only browsing, a quick look because an hour parking so on reflection I didn’t give enough time and if there’s one thing you should allow yourself when […]
Well, I survived the talk at The Collection and was pleased to see such a large audience! I had just started to talk to those who were there when about 50 more people rushed in. The seats were quickly filled […]
Exhibiting three paintings in this exhibition. A link to my profile at http://viggo-works.com/index.php?page=3056
Photostory- Horses exhibition at http://www.aligracie.org/arisucreativearts/exhibitions-2013/album/photostory-horses?p=1 All photography by Ali Gracie
Photostory – Butterflies exhibition at http://www.aligracie.org/arisucreativearts/exhibitions-2013/album/photostory-butterflies?p=1 All photography by Ali Gracie
Disarming the Dead This evening I re-read a chapter from “The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death” by Timothy Taylor, 2002, Fourth Estate. The chapter, An Unexpected Vampire, recounts the post- mortem isolation of a prostitute who died in 1933 […]
Hanging Day tomorrow. The big pile has turned into several big piles now. Today I will sort through, put them into some sort of logical order, put ticks on my lists and hopefully catch a bit of time between the […]
POST-GRADUATION Lovely to see my former fellow-students on 24th Oct. The ceremony went so quickly and was just a little emotional. The simple act of walking across the stage wearing all that stuff somehow made it real for the first […]