barren – uncertain furniture Day 3 The idea of gallery as studio is not new particularly when workshops and work in progress etc are the substance of the crossover between studio and gallery. However the question of studio also reaches […]
Program !
There are people watching I know who will be calling me tonight Portsmouth June 5th MemorysThoughtsIdeas fill myHeadInQuadrophonic spin LoudlyOrbitingInWildAbandon Butno mainsCableTo pullout 4Surround soundSilence
Required Field – you must enter and walk in these fields Portsmouth 5th June 9 days to go Annotated short List: some with ‘momentary’ twittered poetry. Gathered from first 5 days of June and in no apparent dated order 1. […]
I post this purely out of silliness and to show that not all creative skills are transferable. I can’t make cakes. Can you tell what it is? answer in next post…..
Thanks are in order… The Kickstarter funds have just cleared for our performative istallation project ‘ChildsPlayShadows’; after Kickstarter fees, £1,175.01 is in the bank and awaiting confirmation of our new venue so we can get the ball rolling again, in […]
An investigation into edgelands, non-places and spaces traversed on the way to somewhere else. How can film be used to create collages about such places and how can the limitations of the camera influence what is captured?
For only the second time, Iraq has a national representation at the Venice Biennale. Curated by Ikon Gallery Director Jonathan Watkins, what sets it apart from the 2011 pavilion is that all the artists featured still live and work in the country. S Mark Gubb takes a look at the work on show and finds out how you pull off an exhibition from a country that has no curators, and of which curators on the outside know nothing about.
Arsenale, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
I’ve been busy since my trip to London putting together ideas for the LAN project proposal and meeting with local artists that I hope would be interested in getting involved. I’m pleasantly surprised to find that some artists whose work […]
Week 34: 6th – 12th MayI’ve long been interested in the nature of idioms and how they can contribute to an understanding of emotionality in different languages. Specifically, my previous interests have related to the ways in which animals are […]
I don’t know if it is my crafty roots poking through, but I’ve always had a bit of a thing about art that is only about art. I much prefer to experience and make things that relate to life. I […]
barren – 04/06/2013 Failure Back to George Perec and his note on failure – it is apt to say that it may not be wrong but the space the place where you are putting a mark may be uninhabitable. First […]
As I don’t have much in the way of heirlooms I’ve been buying a selection of vintage children’s clothes, shoes, and several crochet and sewing patterns in order to turn them into memory objects of a kind. I wasn’t sure […]
Week Three News Extracts from Buddy Leader, Anne Barrell’s weekly mail-out to the group. It’s been great hearing what the buddies have been up to and some lovely ideas are coming forward. Sarah Mulholland and Catherine Walsh have been sketching […]
BLUE MONKEY LOVES DAVID KEFFORD! Blue Monkey artist Anne Barrell writes, “I very much enjoyed the David Kefford talk at Towner on Wednesday. Part of what he talked about was the importance of artists support networks and about how through […]
Hit list Do you have a list of galleries, organisations, curators, artists and contexts in which or with whom you would like to work? I don’t have a list, but a couple of the people who I have met recently […]
