A random selection of resolutions, predictions and plans for 2013, from the impact of arts cuts in Newcastle to an artist’s intention to ‘do less’. Now, what are yours?
Video of artists Katharine Meynell and Aaron Williamson discussing shared interests in their practices, identity politics and shifts in education, funding models and public perceptions of art.
Reliance Square, 29 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EY, London
6 October 2012
I’ve enjoyed reading the a-n random selection of resolutions, predictions and plans for 2013, as they appear to be so positive. I was particularly struck by the Quote of artist Leo Fitzmaurice DO LESS and DO WHAT I WANT. It […]
Where to begin? There is a massive backstory to this project, which reflects both the rapidly changing and extraordinary socio-economic climate we are living in, the historical threads that underpin it and within that my own personal and at times […]
Keeping. It. Going. With regards to the title of this blog, ‘Keeping It Going’ hasn’t felt easy this past month or so. Keeping anything much at all going has proved difficult, in fact and I did very little throughout the […]
I normally keep my blogs here on artists talking to a narrow, time-limited period to fit in with being in residence somewhere, however, I’ve found that there’s lots of threads of work that need finishing and developing from my month […]
Studio75’s final project Several Skeletons from the Same Closet It is now the beginning of 2013 and it is time to look back on the last two years of Studio75. We started the studio in January 2011. We wanted to […]
My current practice is founded in a discovery of empathy with the Process artists of the late 60’s East Coast USA. Particularly, Bollinger Serra and Judd on from Pollock were working in this way, where the process of making is […]
The Artist Statement I cherish and am very protective of my own chosen moments of solitude, but I am also aware that long periods of time alone can send you into a thought process of constant questioning, with no one […]
Well 2013. Welcome. You have not made a particularly good start but I’m prepared to be just a little bit patient with you. I hold in my aura the power of positive thinking and I am sure THIS will be […]
Right then. Respectability. I don’t quite know where this tangential thought has come from, except it has grown out of my last piece of work to do with parents and children, expectations, behaviour and so on. I am thinking of […]
Happy New Socks everyone! Here are the measurements for A7: He now weighs a whopping 35g with packaging now 87g and if you stretch out his new festive innards, he measures 52cm! I have to confess he got lost for […]
Sock A(8) now weighs 38g 80g with packaging (Christmas card retained by sockateer E) Sockateer E feels with all this added weight, Sock A needs a little comfort and protection, so has been given a padded sole.
I Can See a Rainbow “Any colour, so long as it’s black.” Henry Ford When I said watercolour portraits at the end of the previous post, I imagined that I would paint as I had in the past, a face-to-face […]
‘need 10’ Portsmouth: January 1st woken at 1:35am screaming child next door woken at 5:23am screaming child next door woke at 7am – not at fear o’clock Late up. Seem to have found series of mirrored patterns in the matrix […]
For the first time in a very long time, I have felt very apprehensive about the coming year. Usually, on the 1st of January, I have started to fill in my wall chart by now, knowing what I will be […]
The movement from Snapshots to the new batch of found photographs, the Photoshoots, marked a change in my approach to the photographic image. Here the red-screen ‘arena’ was identified, which set the focus on that area which defined the posed […]
‘Circling around your answer’ Portsmouth January 1st I am fascinated by hearing the landscape Definitely agree Slightly agree Slightly disagree Definitely disagree I often find it unnecessary to see people in the dark Definitely agree Slightly agree Slightly disagree Definitely […]
Back in May, Axisweb announced they were having a clear out of their books and publications in their Leeds office, inviting their membership to get in touch if they wanted anything as they were going digital. This was just before […]
Rubbish research in Axisweb’s cast out MAP Magazine archive (part 2): MAP Issue 17, Spring 2009 (p.88) Review: Superflex, South London Gallery, 16 January – 1 March. Kate Cowcher reviews Superflex’s film Flooded McDonald’s. “Certianly waste-generating, waist-expanding global corporations such […]
The Director of FACT, Liverpool, provides his thoughts on the year just ending and the one just beginning.
Currently reading: Carloyn Christov-Bakargiev (ed.) – Arte Povera (1991) Phaidon, London. “Arte Povera literally translated means ‘poor art’ but does not refer solely to the poorness of materials.2 (p.16) Whilst Arte Povera may have set a precedent for the kinds […]
