MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #24 Although there are advantages in becoming a charitable trust if a group needs capital or other major funds to take on a building, in that this status gives them access to a wider range of funding […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #25 In Care, Diligence and Skill: a handbook for the governing bodies of arts organisations[1] the general criteria for assessing suitability of proposed board members are described as: • Quality: regardless of age, profession and other characteristics, […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #26 It is true to say that artists do not necessarily automatically hold the skills and expertise necessary to run an organisation. To fulfil all the things required of them, artist-led organisations must undergo a steep learning […]
The book is printed and pre-orders posted. In the end I raised enough funds for a limited edition of 50. My main concern was that it looks a quality object and the printers got there in the end. So, thirty […]
The Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths University of London is pleased to present MAKE–METALIBRARY at the Special Collections ,an exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Christina Mitrentse. METALIBRARY is a site specific interactive floor based installation gathering together the complete MAKE magazine […]
What a glorious few days! Have been enjoying being outdoors – Sunday breakfast in the garden; ‘business’ lunch in the garden’ ‘business’ meeting at the cafe on the sea front where the wild flowers planted as part of DAD’s “How […]
‘I am a chair therefore I am a chair’ Portsmouth – Brighton – Portsmouth July 9th Still resting and finding it hard to deal with ‘outside’ at the moment – sometimes its hard to push outside of you when the […]
Whilst in Oxford last week to move in to my new studio at Magdalen Road Studios I had a very bizarre and thoroughly compelling encounter. I was staying at a friend’s house and whilst there, the proof of “Are There […]
My Website/s I’ve got that sort of feeling at the moment that’s like when you come back from holiday and everything feels kind of flat. Although there’s nothing on the immediate horizon, I’m reluctant to start on my own work […]
Introductions. There is a meeting arranged at the end of my second week with artists from Chisenhale Studios. This gives me a good deadline by which to produce my first trial prints. Before I start mass production I need to […]
mid-morning at Situations office, Spike Island. Beautiful poster from Slow Space Bjorvika on notice board. Claire Doherty begins by asking me about my practice and where I see my work in 3 years from now. Am unnerved as it seems […]
Smooth Space monday morning planning meeting following visit to Claire Doherty from Situations at Spike Island in Bristol. My co-Smooth Spacer comfortingly calls it a paranoia meeting. We are trying to work out how we approach the Geopark partners to […]
friday afternoon, Plymouth University’s Marine Institute and a meeting with Paula Orrell who is currently involved with Tamar Project; Artangel; Efford Take A Part; Alias Arts; Karst Projects; Curatorial and Visual Arts South West. The Marine Institute is a fabulous […]
Submitted application from Smooth Space to Alias Arts for support from their advisory service. Organised an exchange/share – swapping use of our camera & equipment for help with re-building our website. Began re-writing Smooth Space values document. Began to think/plan […]
Supporting the exhibition Portfolio NW (the Bluecoat, Friday 26 July – Sunday 15 Sept 2013), this blog features new critical writing from North West based writers, artists and curators. Bringing together eight North West-based artists, Portfolio NW celebrates creative talent […]
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s knowledge sharing event at Google’s London office was a high-impact juxtaposition between one of the world’s most successful companies and the subsidised visual arts sector. Dany Louise reports.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
The Government makes clear there’s to be no let-up in the push for earned income as Culture Secretary Maria Miller focuses on economic goals for Arts Council England in the year ahead.
Arts Council England has set aside £40m for exceptional projects and contingency funds for National Portfolio Organisations over the next two years.
Last week saw the start of the installation and unfortunately I couldn’t be there for the beginning of the week but luckily my lovely peers worked on rebuilding and painting the whole of the space, including mine. On top of […]
A New Look for Public Toilets in Dover (part3)‘The additions’ In my last post I was too busy talking about telling Stories, singing and loud expletives and I forgot to write what I actually ment to talk about: The artist […]
I’ve been back from Chongqing for just over a month. It’s taken a while to get back into things and I’ve only just got round to sorting through the drawings from the workshop I ran at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. […]
i saw you there! Talk with Anne Deeming, Thursday 11 July 2013, 6.30pm At Friska, 36 Victoria Street, Bristol, BS1 6BY (Free) Our first public realm commission project with Bristol-based artist Anne Deeming has been a real learning curve! We […]
We invited Swansea-based writer, artist and curator Rowan Lear to produce a piece of creative writing in response to her experience of i didn’t see you there: Looking for Anne Deeming’s ‘i didn’t see you there’ By Rowan Lear “Carry […]
