Sometimes, when I’ve finished work for the day, I really can’t be bothered doing anything. To add to my lethargy and the tiredness still felt from installing my work on Tuesday and having to sit through a dreary ‘development’ day […]
I’ve written a few Art Work Life Balance exercises now and this weekend I have been putting together a few proposals to different places for residencies or to perform or exhibit them. Initially I started with 7, I haven’t performed […]
Day five. First thing the photographer from the Sheffield Telegraph came to to take pics for article that will be out next Thursday. Can’t wait to read and see it. Only had one visitor today, my friend Katie Hilton. She […]
Between the 11th – 28th of March, I will be undertaking a residency at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and making work in response to its collections. The work will be developed from the Victorian, Georgian and Geology Collections. http://www.davidbethell.com/index.php/artwork/work…
Plans for a new gallery in Leicester gather momentum following Arts Council England’s £600,000 cash injection.
In Joshua Sofaer’s latest Artist as leader interview for a-n, artist Richard Layzell and businessman Richard Hicks discuss Layzell’s seven-year tenure as ‘Visionaire’ at AIT software company. Here, Layzell writes about what came next and the continued relevance of his experience in industry a decade on.
The Rythm factory, London
8 March – 3 April 2013
17 February 2012. The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles. Recording Time: 39 minutes.
As part of his Artist as Leader research, Joshua Sofaer talks to David Wilson, the Director of The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, about the “grey areas” and “inspiration as a form of leading”.
A weekly diary of my three month residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Where I will be exploring texture within the digital video medium.
Documenting the run up to my first solo show at the prestigious Cornerhouse arts venue in Manchester,UK. The show opens on the 18th April, and I have many personal factors (i.e. children/lack of funds/time) to contend with in the run […]
Today I have been glazing my ceramic pieces, trying to think about the glazes and how they will look with the glass and resin I will be adding, Im using lots of the Green/orange speckled semi matt glaze… Ive found […]
Day three. Carved seven grains today. Fran documented again and put one of her excellent images onto Facebook. Got ‘To and From Grain Warehouse Sheffield’ printed today for Leeds book fair on Saturday. There were five visitors today an one […]
Time If I could have anything in the world it would be to work as a full-time artist. Instead I am a part-time artist with a full-time job. When I started LoLB I was working part-time in Central Library as […]
This is an event me and 5 fellow artists have organised for next week.Have a look at our website: occupiedevent.com
Ongoing work on our 2013 calendar of events, involving numerous small segments of admin-type work here, there and everywhere. One of the events is our May residency that we had an open-call for and for which we are about to […]
So here I am, back in the land of blogging. I used to do this kind of thing 15 years ago, before it became hip; before most people knew what a blog was. Never thought back then as a young, […]
Intro I received notification for this residency way back in early 2011, after seeing an advert for on Axis. So for me it has been along time coming. Really great to be here, in the country that flows through my […]
After reading through my blog I have decided to add a post about the progression of this project as a whole. I originally planned to focus on contemporary interiors, but am generally more drawn to historical ones and keep on […]
I’m just having a bit of a shaky day. I had a very close near miss on the M6 last night, where without the presence of mind of a couple of other drivers, who slammed their brakes on to give […]
‘The hotwater bottle who thought he was a cat’ Portsmouth March 7th 5:27 wake 5:27 what is this? 5:27 seems encoded in ACGT unwanted marker unwanted mutation flee virtually no resistance Up – tea – wash – dress – leave […]
I have found some inspiration from a couple of Italian designers called Formafantasma. Unfortunately, I didn’t see their recent show but have now documented the images that I can find. Seeing their work has tied in with a recent tutorial […]
Day four. I carved fourteen grains today. I’m on a mission to get quicker to carve as many of the soap bricks as possible. Don’t think I’ll manage to do all of them, but it is about the process and […]
A new report from public art think tank ixia highlights a significant fall in the size and value of the sector in England.
Policy makers often outsource consultation to independent specialists, but do they get the full story or just the tidied up version? Ahead of Creative Scotland’s open meetings series, the arts professional behind Stramash Arts shares first-hand experience of having the ifs, buts and maybes expunged from the conversation that led to the funding body’s creation.
