Week 49: 19th – 25th AugustLearning more about the history of paper and its predecessors has led me to consider more about the ritualistic uses of these materials, in particular the uses and production of Amatl, a form of paper […]
Curently reading: Discard Studies as Science and Technology Studies (STS) By Max Liboiron. Discard Studies, 16/10/13. Liboiron analyses the crossovers in Discard Studies and STS: “Not only do many of the premises and modes of inquiry between discard studies and […]
Today I have been reading about Tracey Emin – I read a chapter from the book Tracey Emin, 20 Years by Patrick Elliott and Julian Shnabel. I picked out some phrases and paragraphs that i found interesting and this inspired […]
I’m not going to make any excuses for not blogging. I’ve just been busy with the other stuff of life, even had a mini holiday in Truro where I took lots of photo’s of dilapidated boats. Funny how the boat […]
Random T. I thought I’d be too tired tonight – and I am! – to write another post. So I’m going to keep the writing short this time… It’s quite interesting the way you learn something positive when you least […]
A panel including the artist Richard Wentworth, art collector and patron Robert Hiscox and Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Director of Programmes Clare Lilley, have been debating who should fund public art and what its role should be.
Katerina Athanasopoulou has won the Lumen Prize 2013 for her digital fine art work that explores times of crisis through a return to Plato’s hypothesis of the human soul.
Some of the words faded in the sunlight until there was nothing remaining.
Procrastination or should that be paperwork?
compress of ideas attempts to speak my mind posed questions and tweets sent unconvientional blog post comprising of disjointed one line statements crtitically attempting to be critical ideas out waying ability to produce awareness of a world and paralising blinding […]
A friend has sent me an invitation to join an exhibition in the Mile End Art Pavillion – great space overlooking the lake and Mile End Park. Huge and airy and unusual architecture. Think I will probably do it – […]
The work is ready. I’ve been framing and mounting for the past two days and finally I know what my half of the show will look like. I’m excited… Elena will tell you that’s not like me… highly unusual. I’m […]
Another new studio artist joined us this month triggering lots of excitement and more shuffling around of cardboard boxes, new biscuits appearing in the kitchen and fresh work to be shown in the gallery. Chris will be working with textiles […]
Part 1 Jeez Louise! It’s been an age since I’ve last posted on here. To be honest, being that things don’t seem to be read by anyone who ISN’T already a paid up member of a-n, it sort of seemed […]
Blog to record documentation/analysis of the journey during my MA fine art full time course at the Faculty of Arts University of Brighton. www.mercedesferrari.com
Kirsty Ogg, the current Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, is leaving to take up a new post as Director of Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
In the first of four Reith Lectures for BBC Radio 4 titled Democracy Has Bad Taste, artist Grayson Perry explored the question of who determines what is ‘good’ art, and why.
This year’s Frieze Projects, the curated programme at Frieze London art fair, is programmed by former senior curator at Serpentine Gallery, Nicola Lees. We talk to her about this year’s artists and presenting work in an art fair context.
