I havent quite finished thoughts about chairs.. Annabel Tilley asked if I would be interested in painting an 18th Century chair ( this is her area of expertise) and I said not at all. These modernist chairs were particularly symptomatic […]
POST #16: ||||||||| Tonian |||||||||| DAY 3 ON SITE: REPORT #1 A lot of very wonderful things happened today. My appreciation of them was certainly clouded by the 24-7 thinking that I seem to become engulfed in during these short-period […]
POST #17: ||||||||| Cryogenian |||||||||| DAY 3 ON SITE: REPORT pt.2 I dried off and walked back to Dunbar along one of the most diverse walks on Britain’s coastline. A magical walk but I spent a large portion of the […]
This week’s selection of shows includes the first major survey of Japanese artist Shimabuku and a closer look at self-portraiture.
It is worth providing context to introduce this blog. My name is Jack Welsh, a freelance arts administrator, researcher and writer currently based in Liverpool. A few months ago, Sara-Jayne Parsons, Exhibitions Curator at the Bluecoat in Liverpool, invited me […]
Twyford in Derbyshire was not a place I’d heard of. When I got there I understood why. It’s a quiet place, just the church, Hall, a few cottages and a farm. This made it very easy for me to find […]
A week of taking time, a rethink, a few changes Had a useful and positive meeting last week with Rashmi Sudhir the Arts Enagagement Officer at Bradford Council , to talk over my ACE application. Rashmi was very positive about […]
…Continued from last post Caroline suggested that it might be good to take the brakes off in terms of the ACE application, and give myself to have further exploratory conversations with other collaborators, allowing myself to develop a firm sense […]
I received a nice email from the Marburae Art Gallery, Macclesfield today, saying that I had been chosen for the Barnaby Festival exhibition 2014 (2013 info: http://www.barnabyfestival.org.uk/ ) It was just one of the three proposals I sent off a […]
Memory as knowledge in a private form.
Am currently diving into my reading list, along with a bit of hands on and going with the flow.
POST #15: <Stenian> DAY TWO ON SITE. Today’s headway: → The bulk of inscribing required to create a version of Theory of the Earth inside of a confetti cannon achieved. → Spoke to Gillian McCay at the Cockburn Museum who […]
I’ve “discovered” painting with mud. (Gasp! horror- I usually work digitally) How did this come about? Well I have just been to Dollar Summer School. (Few outside the central belt of Scotland know about this unique school – now in […]
Completed Tower #2 this weekend. Part of research and work developed to document processes and games created to measure the passage of time. Such play is informed from limited materials such as those hand-carried and those within the landscape – […]
POST #13: ((Calymmian)) FIRST DAY ON SITE…. (pt 1) I’m here! The journey here was hard but auspicious. A long overnight Megabus journey filled with hours on non-sleep but I awoke at one strange moment between fits of non-sleep to […]
POST #14: ((Ectasian)) DAY ONE ON SITE: (pt 2) I would like to reprise the as-yet-undocumented Anthropocene confetti cannon blast into the North Sea. (The inaugural blast last summer was poorly documented). Preferably at Thorntonloch as I had such a […]
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
19 – 27 July 2013
