The crit at which I presented my work two weeks ago has continued to play on my mind. Perhaps the anxiety stirred up for me that night hasn’t ever really gone away – all the feelings associated with making a […]
Directing you to the stream I have been troubleshooting problems that might arise during the live stream of my performance. I have read that ustream.TV make there money by intermittently broadcasting advertising during the streamed event. It is really important […]
Here is a painted version of another of the rooms at Eltham Palace. I applied large areas of smooth paint to flatten the perspective and make the space appear indinstinct and unreal. Again I used colours similar to those in […]
Sporting League: Game 20. Second and third placed sides Novia and Universo Collunteen cancelled each other out in a game that had everything apart from the goals Pundit X: ‘That was a cracking game…I thought Novia had nicked it in […]
while getting changed from a swim, i dropped some change on the floor. from the next cubicle i heard “oh wow my lucky day.” there were many things i could do from that point. i chose to continue in my […]
This time last year I was in Stockholm, nervously displaying my work as part of SUPERMARKET. The build up beforehand and the amount of work involved made January and the beginning of February 2012, fly by. Now I feel a […]
Organising the Fundraising Auction is taking up a lot of my time but I still have ideas buzzing around in my head about the Degree Show work. The Antibes painting is driving me nuts!! Can’t seem to get it right; […]
My practice has taken a number of unexpected but exciting directions since starting my degree and third year, so far, has proved no different! If anything, I would say I am even more surprised by the routes I am beginning […]
# 2 [22 November 2012] I thought it might be a good idea to give you a bit of an overview from last week in the studio. It was very busy! I had an installation space for a few days […]
3 [22 November 2012] So after a busy week in the installation space (of which we have named “The Cabin”) it was time for a group crit. As I had been changing the space multiple times in the day I […]
# 4 [22 November 2012] After my few days in the installation space I was feeling a bit lost for a while, until I found a chest of drawers in which I decided to display a number of my Grandmother’s […]
# 5 [22 November 2012] I managed to get into a differenct installation space today, so I decided to continue with my exploration into light – playing with different slides in the slide projecter and multiple layers and colours of […]
It’s been a while since I last made a new blog. I am hoping now I am quite in the swing of things that I will be blogging a bit more frequently now… I have started making some work in […]
Over a year ago I contacted eleven soap manifacturers asking to sponsor me with 2 tonnes of soap bars for a project in a former Public Baths by the river Don/Sheffield. LUSH showed interest straight away and supported me through […]
Common Practice’s new publication, written by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, offers new ways of evaluation and measurement in the art world.
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
Colin Glen, 'Confusion to Clarity', Graphite and Oil on canvas, 2012.
DCA, Dundee
9 February – 21 April 2013
Curious Duke Gallery, London
7 February – 7 March 2013
wanted – artists, curators and metaphysicians working across the themes of science and religion recommended shows – Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine and Bigger Splash at the Tate M. John Cage at Dancing Round Duchamp [Barbican] Brilliant speakers at MKG […]
finally our performances was done. I’d like to appreciate my colleagues and staff. Thank you. I found some issues through participation in this project. one of them is the most important thing from last century. what do we want to […]
Since I last made an entry a lot has transpired with the shifting and shaping of the work and the final push towards presenting it in TPAM. Now as I sit post shows to consider the next step of R&R […]