This should be easy to write today, shouldn’t it? But I want it to read right… I want to contaminate you with enthusiasm… Eight years I’ve been working with tablet technology. Eight years I’ve been waiting to get into a […]
Just before Christmas I received two unwanted pieces of news. Firstly my ACE Grants for the Arts proposal, 21st Century Fetish, which I had been working on for 6 months, had been rejected at the second stage. Secondly, my second […]
I’ve been sorting through my finds’ list this week, checking descriptions and possible categories, attempting to group things and doing an initial scan for trends and relationships. There are so many things that I collected that are small parts of […]
Yesterday was my last working day at the Centre for Drawing. I could sense the clock ticking all day and despite trying not to, I felt more pressured than I had in previous days. I knew that I only had […]
Last night I presented my work alongside three other artists for a group crit event organised by Q-Art. It was my first ever presentation under these circumstances and I came home feeling absolutely exhausted. I had a rough idea of […]
Contemporary Art Society North has partnered with commercial galleries from Bristol and London for pop-up exhibition tours of the homes of collectors in Manchester.
Stuart Middleton awarded £10,000 prize for his work Jump!
Julie Rafalski, 'Dear Marcel,', C-type print, 2013.
Steve Clarkson, 'Fiat 500 left side', Digital print, November 2012. The image shows a snap shot whilst working with 3D scanning data. The image views the vehicle in transparency, revealing aspects both interior and exterior.
Jane Ostler, 'If the cap fits', Oil on canvas, 2013. Photo: Jane Ostler. Courtesy: Jane Ostler. I became interested in the relationship between land and sea, and where they meet. You can use this as a metaphor for the meeting of the male and female sides of a human being, and the conflict that occurs when there is a push/pull between these impulses. Rational/irrational; scientific/spiritual; safe/dangerous; dead/alive; repressed/liberated.
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
26 January – 7 April 2013
Hauser & Wirth, London
30 January – 9 March 2013
MENTAL SORRING… …Is the title of a performance piece of mine from the late 70s. It’s actually an anagram of my name and refers to the ‘fragmentation of self’ examined in the piece, being somewhat influenced by my day job […]
Axisweb Curated Prize As part of my research for the Axisweb Curated Prize, I interview the artists in my selection on their use of rubbish/waste/discards. Interview with Inguna Gremzde AB: Why do you work with rubbish/trash/discards? IG: After arriving to […]