OUTWARD LOOKING Well, I started on my Re:view road trip, and then jarringly ground to a halt last Tuesday. Clambering over a pile of stuff in my studio, I hurtled through space, heard a loud crack and just knew I […]
One week this Thursday and it will be the exhibition opening. I feel quite calm about it and thankfully mainly on track. I am now at a point of thinking about my talk, going over my research and attempting to […]
Week 41: 24th – 30th JuneThe day of the transfer assessment was finally here. I’d written previously about the requirements and outcomes for the transfer process (in week 30), so I knew what to expect, but despite this (and reassurances […]
Had a great day yesterday of free form researching (improv researching?) online. Here’s what I found, starting with following this link from artist Lyndsey Perth on (https://twitter.com/lippi) on Twitter: ‘Manipulated Photographs, Manipulated Memories‘http://petapixel.com/2013/07/28/manipulated-photog…An interesting blog post by a neuroscientist working […]
‘Swimming free in a clear trout stream’ Tuesday 30th July Very briefly in addition to last post why I believe All children should be encouraged to fulfill their artistic dream – I said I would be an artist aged six […]
Betrayal Fish in a clear trout stream Sit still! Don’t, catch his eye! Stay invisible in the clear trout stream Even if you think, he will see you Stare intently reading the patterns on the dull wooden desk as the […]
My next location is listed as’Nr Markeaton’. The painting shows a path or road curving into the distance. Two figures are walking away from the viewer towards a 5 bar gate. Unsure of where to start I drive to Markeaton […]
It all worked. So I think some thanks are in order. Huge thanks are due to Alasdair Swenson, who developed the programme that makes the arrows move and interact. He’s setting upwww.irregulardesign.com to do more stuff like this. Working with […]
My latest work signifies something of a breakthrough in terms of what a jar of paint can depict: An intelligible degree of subjection is instantly attached to the contents of each jar. They no longer represent paint; they represent the […]
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 – […]
