It finally feels like some sort of normalcy and a desire to make work is returning after the exhausting madness of completing my MA. The first project is both fun and useful in expanding my making – an opportunity from […]
I have been thinking a lot this week about my physical location – where I actually spend a large amount of my life. How it impacts on my being an artist. The shadow of the former mining industry has a […]
The Next Step The an Re:View bursary I recieved has funded a set of 3 mentoring meetings with gallery director and curator Danielle Arnaud. I have my second meeting booked with Danielle in two weeks time. We are meeting at […]
Last night was second college tutorial. Eleven of us, one great young tutor. Two talented and eager young artists talked us through their BA and post BA work and we gave the crit. Pasionate about their subjects and clear lines […]
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Now on its sixth edition, this year’s Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair includes, for the first time, work by internationally renowned ceramicist and Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer, Stephen Dixon.
The role of the artist studio within processes of redevelopment in cities has been brilliantly captured in a fascinating publication, The Nomadic Studio: Art, Life and the Colonisation of Meanwhile Space. Tim Clark speaks to Michael Heilgemeir, the photographer behind it.
I’m grateful to all the other artists who recently attended ArtLacuna’s Bodies That Matter experimental peer/performance event at Space Station Sixty-Five. They were very generous with their thoughts and comments on my work, and the work of the other parcticipating […]
For those who weren’t able to make it to my solo presentation On Brown & Violet Grounds at Piccadilly Place, Manchester (25th September – 2nd October), here are some images, video and description of the work for your viewing pleasure… […]
OK, so I have a studio space, lots of materials and subject matter and time on my hands, since no-one will employ me. So why am I not making anything? Well I could blame the kids, the other half, the […]
Well first post. It’s been a few weeks since I started this position but it’s only really felt like it has started in the last few days. I’m located in our sculpture studios, close to where I constructed my degree […]
Well I have secured the Sculpture Graduate Fellowship at Northumbria and I am now also the Co-ordinator of our student project and exhibition space. I have started a new blog here – www.a-n.co.uk/p/3888221 Hopefully it will document my transition into […]
Today we’ve had a meeting to discuss the plans for trips and other research. We’ve also had a good discussion about shell shock / post traumatic stress / war and ecstasy… A.K
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/09/13/… This is an online article from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s online gateway to science about mental health and grafitti. We started talking about how the police began to say that grafitti could become an obsession for some kids – […]
Active Imagination ‘The term active imagination was applied By Jung to refer to a means of mobilizing the psyche through an image or a chain of images and their related associations. It is a ‘concentration on some impressive but intelligible […]
Music is soothing my savage beast again. When times are busy, and verging on the stressful, when I can’t see any gaps in my diary, I have to disengage a little so that I don’t implode. I have to give […]
The Space, the experimental digital arts service developed by Arts Council England and the BBC, plans to relaunch next year, as the BBC’s Director General announces a 20% increase in arts programme funding.
Manchester artist Liz West took a bold move with her recent solo show – she dispensed with a private view and instead opened the show to everyone on a midweek afternoon. She explains why and urges more artists to take a similar route.
On Monday, I went to the AIR Paying artists consultation at Castlefield Gallery Manchester. I’m ashamed to say that I’d never been to the Castlefiled Gallery, but that’s not a reflection on what is on show – more to do […]
