A Saturday spent sweating over which images/exhibitions/ collaborations to use for a new website. I am a serial over- blinger…tend to talk too much, write too much.. so too many images is definitely where I will go unless tightly reined […]
Without warning or ceremony, yesterday Newport City Council demolished an historic Chartist mural in the city centre. Neil McNally, who has been involved in the campaign to save the mural, was there when it happened.
This week’s look at the next seven days (4-10 October 2013) on the international art scene takes us to Italy, the USA, Austria and South Korea, with events, art fairs and new permanent commissions.
a-n launches bursaries for artist-led initiatives to go to November’s Art Party in Scarborough.
OSR Projects, West Coker
21 September – 6 October 2013
GETTING A GRIP Having embarked on my a-n Re:view and crashed to a halt with my fractured ankle, I am at last getting back on track. It’s been an uphill struggle after the boot was removed, my inactive leg muscles […]
We are on a roll… simplifying, making our ideas all hang together with a coherence. That is a challenge for 2 unfettered imaginations. How do we do it? Skype is a brilliant tool for planning. We talk, show, laugh, ponder […]
The Last on Foxes: Made all my foxes now and the last word on foxes from my very good friend who describes himself as having ‘defected to the east’. The east European foxes he describes are ‘whoppers’ that raid hen […]
Almost up to date now with my day to day blog. 28 September. Work day and another crazy day with the public. The problem with days like this is that it leaves me exhausted and not wanting to do anything […]
Since returning for Berlin last week I have been continuing to refine my ideas for the Pavilion. Whilst it is really soothing to sit in the Autumnal gloom at the rear of my studio, making collaged drawings in my sketch […]
What do Artists do on Holiday? Part 3. (Final part) One day I was sitting on the beach writing and something happened that I would in the past have always drawn or painted. Perhaps because I already had a notebook […]
Had a successful operation to mend my broken finger a couple of weeks ago, followed by a week in an arm splint, then stitches out yesterday. It’s taken a while to recover from the effects of the general anaesthetic – […]
“That the accused persons, mostly poor themselves, were not responsible for this economic suffering was beside the point; they were perceived as the cause, and that perception sufficed to justify scapegoating them.” From Witchcraze: A New History of the European […]
Over 70 non-commercial venues across east and south London are opening their doors as part of the first ever Art Licks Weekend.
Writing in an open letter, the new CEO of Creative Scotland, Janet Archer, has announced a new senior staff structure for the organisation and suggested that there are more changes to come.
The Art of Play (part 2/2) Left Brain: Verbal, analytical, logical, rational, sequential, successive, directed, cautious, linear, factual, words, objective…. Right Brian: Non-verbal, relational, intuitive, creative, random, simultaneous, random, holistic, visual, colours, sensory, spatial, emotional, divergent, imaginative, subjective…. Within the […]
The Art of Play (part 1/2) ‘Psychotherapy takes place in the overlap of two areas of playing, that of the patient and that of the therapist. Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together. The corollary of this is […]
What do Artists do on Holiday? So, we went off on holiday to the lovely Greek island of Samos, the first proper holiday for a while. We planned for rest, sunbeds, swimming, eating, you know, the sort of stuff regular […]
End of show blues… and reds, and yellows… I have switched the lights off for the last time in ‘On Brown and Violet Grounds’ at Piccadilly Place. I feel a sense of satisfaction that I have never felt before when […]
What do Artists do on holiday? Part 2. But there were times when I wished I could just be on holiday like a normal person and not driven to turn every encounter into a pop-up studio… …And then, one day […]
so – back to the private view….in London for a private view last night. Walking from Liverpool Street towards Brick Lane two scurrying men, heads down came towards me. As I veered round them I suddenly clocked in. Gilbert and […]
