An artist is waiting in Citrosa cafe on Vaconsoft Parkway – North Pointeso. Kelia takes another swig of her flavourless tea. The whispered hum of digitised conversation coming from the gobs of suited curators and agents are chilling her to […]
All about ‘Real/Non-Real’: Stephanie Douet has been showing her new work in the Project Space, made during a residency at The Museum of the History of Science and recently exhibited at Modern Art Oxford. Catch the last day tomorrow (Sunday), […]
The Frequency Festival starts on the 18th October and that’s when my film will be shown in the Usher Gallery of The Collection, Lincoln. I’m really looking forward to seeing it at last in the gallery. It’s on until the […]
This week (11-17 October), our global look at what’s happening in the visual arts takes us to Japan, USA, France and Germany.
Marking the tenth instalment in our series on art books, Tim Clark turns his attention to David Campany’s Gasoline, an evocative publication comprising 37 press images of gas stations that are imbued with their own history and reveal more than they purport to show.
This year’s Serpentine Gallery Marathon is dedicated to the 89plus project, which looks at artists who have grown up in a digitally networked world – and we’re got a pair of free tickets for the two-day event to give away to an a-n member.
Have had a few very tired days, all of me in the horizontal, thoughts, gestures, desires, and at one stage pondered the image of my brain’s coils and curls unfurled and laid out next to me, two fleshy greyish-white cords […]
how often do i back up? not very often actually as the laptop works so why do i need to back it up? i do back up the files that go to make the current in progress work. so what […]
So using the medium of a blog for my critical review is very apt, as I have chosen Memory as a subject for my dissertation and studio practice. I chose this subject as memory is such an important part in […]
I purchased some old keys from an antique shop near Cognac, France. I was fascinated by the way in which they all unlock their own unique door, but no one knows where the door is, and they now have no […]
I found another box in my garage made of the same type of wood, mahogany, in my attic, which I used for a piece in college to represent the brain in a mixed media piece of found personal objects. I […]
Framing I was interested to hear how the artists I spoke to conceptualise a context for their practice, how they locate it. i.e. as ‘art’, in terms of the galleries or locations they show in or potential audiences. Emma Smith […]
Week 48: 12th – 18th AugustAs we’re technically in the summer holidays at the moment, I decided to catch up on some professional development and to learn a new skill. I’d always wanted to try out laser cutting, specifically in […]
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.
