A new mini-festival of live and visual arts by the sea launches this weekend in Essex. We talk to lead artist and curator, Caroline Wright, and the event’s producers, Artsadmin.
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
29 August – 21 September 2013
CRACKS IN TEAPOTS AND LIMINAL SPACES Ah but cracks in teapots or otherwise are liminal spaces inhabited by who knows what. Did you ever avoid the cracks in the pavements when you were a child? Was a bear going to […]
Studio75 as a physical space closed in May 2013. We learned a lot from setting up and running this space. Some of what we learned was very disappointing and some of it was inspiring and life/art affirming. We met some […]
I’m trying to focus on visiting exhibitions that are more relevant to my research interests at the moment, so the reference library-cum-conceptual art installation currently on show at &Model Gallery in Leeds seemed the perfect place to start. &Model was […]
Layering up enlarged letter ‘a’s copied from notes, letters and postcards people have sent me, I notice, not just how much variation there is in the way people form the letter, but also the movement in their gestures and in […]
Blunt soap I found this not-so complimentary bar of soap in the bathroom, of one of the hundred odd rooms I stayed in whilst backpacking around South East Asia. I’m not convinced that this was decided as the best design […]
For the next guest post in the Portfolio NW artists talking blog, Curator Richard Parry gives his perspective on critical writing and blogging in the North West: Having recently relocated to the North West from London I was flattered but […]
The drive back yesterday took 8 hours and we didn’t get home until after dark. Provided plenty of time to think on the happenings of the three-weeks well spent in Penzance, St. Just, and on-and-off the coast around Lands End. […]
There has been lots of activity this week focusing on Ryedale ArtWorks, an artist led community for which I am Chair as well as a member. Of course, this means that, frustratingly, I have still not managed any working time […]
Our latest project, which has taken some months to assume its final shape, is now complete and called …. Seeds of Enlightenment It is an Altered Book … to be exact it is Encyclopedia Britannica Volume 9 (Extraction* to Gambrinus**) […]
A shortlist of six artists has been announced for the next two Fourth Plinth commissions for Trafalgar Square.
Barrow-in-Furness based Art Gene launches its latest ‘cultural tourism’ project this week – a route guide that uncovers fascinating facts and hidden histories about the area as a way to inform “social rather than economic regeneration”. We find out more from Art Gene co-founder Stuart Bastik.
I have managed to squeeze in some studio time, some of it spent making it a little bit cleaner/tidier as on Saturday four members of the Making Art Work cooperative are visiting. It’s going to be a kind of ‘studio […]
MAKING CONNECTIONS Now I’m reflecting on marginalisation and how to resist that. I’m not always clear how to do it. Wading through the media, it looks as though our daily lives are homogenous, banal, white middle class male orientated. How […]
It wasn’t so bad. The day started with the predicted ire about other people’s rubbish, but I have come to expect it, so just got on with clearing it, before starting my own work. I also handed out some flyers […]
