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 […]
CanI just stop you there.
‘Mapping the building’ – I have done a bit of research into mapping – google throws up images of all kind of ‘maps’ – maps of the internet are particularly interesting – tracing information connections – beautiful and intruiging. Maps […]
Today I’ve been to visit the gallery where our exhibition will be, in Ledbury, Herefordshire. It’s a lovely little space in the half-timbered listed building, up a little staircase, three connected rooms with sloping ceilings. I wanted to have a […]
I’m ‘mapping’ the new college campus. Starting by taking a few pics. As you can see, from the limited pics on here – we are spoilt for space. There is so much potential in this place.I have been concentrating on […]
Monday meeting with Lucy Drane, Alias advisor and Gallery Co-ordinator / Co-ordinator of Spike Island Associates Programme at Works|Projects / Spike Island. Sitting in our kitchen drinking Love Tea with Lucy who is unhurried and focused – while we have […]
Paper cups made with the most basic papier mache, made with flour and water glue, moulded on rescued cups from around college. Currently making them repetitively and quite industriously as my response to the new campus. The social aspect of […]
The programme for the sixth edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the first under new Director Sarah McCrory, combines the local and international to create a busy 18 days of contemporary art activity across the city.
The shortlist for the 2013 Griffin Art Prize, for emerging artists working in painting and drawing, has been announced.
We report from this year’s Abandon Normal Devices festival at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, and explore the role and influence of digital culture and new technologies in a selection of the artists’ work.
Currently listening to: Costing the Earth: CSI Landfill BBC Radio4 08/10/13 3:30pm Tom Heap discovers landfill mining: finding value in what’s been thrown away. He visits Belgium to meet the first prospectors digging for treasure in trash. For years rubbish […]
As I may have mentioned earlier the designs for these mosaics were inspired by the Ecological Report written about the development site with guidelines for the developer as what to plant and what type of habitats to create to encourage […]
Four of Scotland’s leading environmental organisations are hosting seven artists’ residencies funded by Creative Scotland, as part of the Year of Natural Scotland.
This week’s recommendations range from Sarah Lucas’s major show of new and existing works at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, to the citywide Art Sheffield festival.
“I believe that with its many subspecialties, art therapy has the key, or perhaps a key, to our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning change in all kinds of psychological treatments… because art therapy is closest to what we now understand […]
I spent most of Friday in Norman St Empty shop space, which was a very productive day! I met an artist who seems very keen to participate with us and get involved. I had been thinking a lot about the […]
This is my first Solo show at Paul McPherson Gallery, London. The show is a collection of figurative-abstract works inspired with people, modern commuters that are travelling to work in and around London. The collection will be focusing on people, […]
See….. now this is what happens, too much time in the cooler things start going funny! As I mentioned my friend who has defected to the east…he tells me the ‘old people’ in the east where he is are all […]
