The UK’s newest photography festival, Diffusion, has just opened to the public in Cardiff. We speak to its director, David Drake, about opportunities, challenges and what sets it apart from the rest.
Evaluation of the pilot year of The Space, a joint three year venture between Arts Council England and the BBC.
While the measles outbreak has been getting all the headlines, Swansea’s Art Across The City has been brightening up the place with a series of works in the public realm. We sent Cardiff-based artist Kathryn Ashill back to her hometown for a guided tour.
2013 Degrees publication highlighting the best graduate art and design shows around the UK.Downloadable PDF version [size 6 MB]. Requires PDF reader.Issue also available in flip-page format (requires Flash) – including non-Flash version for mobile devices.
This is a small part of something l posted on face book, its why l am the person l am today someone who needs to express oneself in what ever form is available. The image showing is of me as […]
Had my meet with Richard Hollinshead a sculpture and director of Grit and Pearl, a public art agency. There were many good points he raised. While video as a piece of long term public art would be problematic, often now […]
There is a distinct probability that I could be setting out to provoke this morning… Whether or not this is a good idea, or even if this is the right arena, we shall have to wait and see, but as […]
This video shows a snippet of Marie Chouinard’s piece, bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS. The “Canadian choreographer whose work is known for its sexually voyeuristic content. Early performance events saw her urinating and masturbating on stage and auctioning herself off for the night […]
A colleague of mine told me when I first suggested about the fetishism chair that he had some real,PVC material that i could have. it arrived today. I really like it. its such a tactile material its smooth and shiny […]
Ive been engrossed within penis making and creating the throne recently, but always in the back of my mind the trap chairs have been niggling me, I’m not happy with their overall look. I have decided to alter them. The […]
Welcome! I start this blog with all the best interests at heart. I hope to be able to take you along the journey as we progress to the end of our MA show in mid-July. However, in the following few […]
A good point to start would be the interim show/assessment we had last week. It is generally the case that for our past assessments, tutorials and group critiques we set up the work in either our cleared-out studio spaces or […]
Today I added a coat of pink paint to the gin – trap chair. I feel that this pink for obvious reasons makes the piece stand out. It also adds to and compounds the sculptures prejudice to women, using a […]
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping (Latin flagellum, “whip”) the human body. Specialized implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o’ nine tails and the sjambok. Typically, flogging is imposed on an unwilling subject […]
