Ladies Parts Three comments about my work this week: 1) Comment on the Wallbreakers websitehttp://thewallbreakers.com/ruth-geldard-to-skirt-i-ii-iii-wall-hang-sculptures/ about a piece of my work called, To Skirt by someone called Enzone Scavone, and I quote in full, “VAJAY-JAY! There, I said it… Now […]
Sometimes I just need to sit.Sometimes I just need to leave alone.Sometimes I just need to wait. Increasingly I associate this blog with the artist and my own personal blog with the teacher. As the boundaries between the two have […]
Wednesday is a good time for me to blog. It is the one day of the week at I can always entirely dedicate to artistic practice. For some parts of the week I have to be a librarian in order […]
White China Poodle Many thanks to artist Kate Murdoch for this image of an object that most distinctly evokes the idea of home.
As the exhibition TO-MORROW or TO-DAY opens simultaneously in Leeds and Ghent, we find out why linking up with other artist-led organisations is so important.
The ten artists shortlisted for the Art Across the City 2014 Public Art Open Submission have been announced, ahead of the latest instalment of the 2013 programme in Swansea next month.
This weekend I opened my studio, to show friends and neighbours where I’m working now, and what I do. Open studios take a lot of time and energy, but it’s really good to have the luxury of talking about individual […]
Only three days left of the exhibition. It has been a slightly strange and reflective time, but I’m very excited about moving beyond the project now. It’s been a rather intense year, working through some busy and challenging times on […]
Just a short blog, with a few photos, to share my excitement… I thought it was going to take weeks to source this item for my piece to make for New York, but I found it! It is a 1940 […]
Monkey’s Fist In my fist a palm sized monkey’s fist, paw, claw gifted on a doorstep by Adam Cluely playful artist, manipulator of events and occupier of traversing territories. My task – a report which I am appropriating to the […]
Today I had my own Bank Holiday, which was really nice – despite everyone else being in work. The sun stayed out, so I had my quota of fresh air and exercise that I felt that I had been missing […]
This week’s must-see shows include images of witches and witchcraft in Edinburgh, Mass Observation photography in London and artist-grown cucumbers in Leeds.
Information Last week I had my penultimate bursary meeting with curator Matthew Hearn. I have been terrible at updating this blog, so at some point will do some back tracking to previous meetings but let me pick up with where […]
I recently suggested a collaboration to Steve Joyce (www.stevejoyce.co.uk) who I’d met (online only) through an enquiry re. the AA2A scheme a year ago. His screen print called ‘Tracing the Everyday 2’ which I saw on his a-n blog is […]
I sometimes wonder about the artists who say they are travelling up and down the country dropping off work and installing exhibitions. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think they are lying – I’m just curious to find out how […]
Week 45: 22nd – 28th JulySometimes the most interesting finds are the ones that you stumble upon by accident, and walking into the ‘Emporium of Optical Novelty’, by photographer and film-maker Simon Warner, was one such occasion. This pop-up curiosity […]
What object reminds you of home? Do you have in your possession an object that you associate with home? This might evoke memories of a rather twee porcelain ornament that sits like an antenna above the TV set. Or it […]
Many thanks for your comment Kate Murdoch Please send your images to : [email protected] I am also on twitter: @AE_Lea. I will upload the images to this blog, and fully credit each author.
WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN Awaking early from a nightmare about a painful estrangement from a brother.Come on, come on, get up, we have to go out.The three of us, escaping into the pale morning sun, I need to walk it […]
Beyond the male script I have been on holiday, I took a break from work and this blog during which I heard a brief article on BBC Radio 4 one morning about men and mental health and that’s the issue […]
I have a project that I’ve been trying to get off the ground for a while now. One key aspect of it needs a bit of grappling with in order to take the work further and, this blog is where […]
The work I’m doing at the moment, apart from the search for military coat, is totally focussed on the show with Bo in October. So I’ve decided that the specific stuff about the art can go in our joint blog, […]
So university finished about 2 months ago. What have I been up to? I packed my things and moved to London. Since then I have finally had a little free time to read, visit exhibitions, art events and open studio […]
Family photography: Archives, albums and groupings Going back this weekend to finish ‘Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age’ (Ed Loewenthal) I read an intriguing chapter by Rodolfo de Bernart, who is professor of Family Therapy in Psychiatry at […]
I’m currently working on a piece on large Fabriano paper, but this time ‘writing’ in all directions and not going in a straight line. Breaking down the pattern of writing a bit more.
