Collaboration between artists Michaela Nettell and Robert Worley to make and studio test a collection of hinged glass pyramids inspired by Cedric Price’s visionary design for the Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo. The objects are envisaged both as props for […]
Querida Vasconcelos, te admiro. (Dear Vasconcelos, I admire you) Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese artist. She was born in Paris in 1971 and now lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Much of Vasconcelos’ work deals with feminism, as well as […]
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/837387/joa… In your current exhibition at Haunch of Venison, you are showing “Full Steam Ahead (Red#1)” (all works 2012), a kinetic, flower-shaped sculpture composed of working steam irons. Could you tell me about this more mechanical strand of your practice? […]
The clock is ticking for our ‘Friends of Studio’ event where I was really hoping to show my work so far… of course there s a bit to be done to make it worth looking at and life has typically […]
THINGS THAT ARE ON MY MIND 1. Rudolph Steiner’s “blackboard” drawings which I saw at the Venice Biennale last week which are actually not blackboards, but are in fact chalk on black paper which his assistant used to cover his […]
Wow, I love Vasconcelos and I love the sound of her name and where she lives and her trajectory as an international artist. From the interview I posted earlier I will get something that is very interesting/important to me at […]
The lampshades have now turned into something else… a ladyboy? There is something about this work that is quite disturbing and vulnerable, quite exposed, like being naked. It shocks me, it does grab me and it does make myself wonder […]
Right. I have been considering carefully why I have been moulding these cups out of newspaper – rather than, say ( as course leader Alli Neal asked) out of the disposable cups i ‘m moulding on? Well – I went […]
The 2013 Turner Prize exhibition has opened at a former army barracks in Derry-Londonderry.
The recipients of the British Ceramics Biennial £10,000 AWARD for ceramicists and FRESH bursary for new graduates have been announced, with installation-based work winning all round.
Artists from across the UK will benefit from a-n bursaries specifically designed to support research and development of new collaborations within or beyond the arts. We introduce the artists and projects.
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A Manifesto Club campaign won important changes to red-tape immigration rules.
Survey reveals no exhibition fees paid to most artists.
The fight for artists’ payments at Canada’s National Gallery is going to the Supreme Court.
The protection of artists should be the same in different places of the art market.
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Week 50: 26th August – 1st SeptemberI’ve been invited to propose a new print work for an art fair at Christie’s in London. The fair is called Multiplied and the stall is being curated by members of the London based […]
Think I’m ready. I’ve got all the work either framed, dowelled, cellophane wrapped. Or stuffed (yes, stuffed). It is in a pile clogging up the sitting room. I had to flatten it out a bit last night because the tv […]
Today’s staff briefing was about the exhibition ‘Art turning Left’. I think it’s going to take a few sessions before we all completely understand what it’s all about though as its far too much to absorb. I like that questions […]
“Banana Dog” was born from thinking too much, worrying too much and not having too much fun with my work at that moment. This was the result, a petite marionette? just to see thing walking, making noise with whatever I […]
