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Just when I think I might have got somewhere, something happens or someone says something that makes me realise nothing’s really changed. The prejudices are still out there. I suppose this latest rant has been prompted by Marion Michell’s blog: […]

If you’ve been following this blog, you might like to read this newly published interview in which I talk in more depth to artist Jane Boyer about many of the issues surrounding my work. Jane is curator of the forthcoming […]

An interview with Nathalie Eigen: What’s your contribution towards organising the degree show? I’ve been desperately looking for sponsors to help raise the £4000 or so needed for the degree show catalogue. Big companies aren’t proving successful so we’re going […]

Currently reading: Jo Applin – Bric-a-Brac: The Everyday Work of Tom Friedman, Art Journal 67.1 (Spring 2008) pp.69-81 http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_luhringaugustine_com/ArtJournalSpring2008.pdf Abstract: L’Invention du quotidien (The Practice of Everyday Life) .4 The significance of Friedman’s work lies in the conceptual strategies of […]

Inspiration is a peculiar thing isn’t it? Been thinking about it since my last post about recognising one’s own working habits and patterns. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve never experienced the *flash* thing that comes from nowhere. […]

I have been way-laid somewhat with various non-art chores. I believe it’s called “Real Life”…But I’m back on track. I can see a clear path through the clunkiness I mentioned in the previous post. I don’t know how other artists […]

Surreal workshops – or where a workshop should and shouldn’t be held, a lesson learnt. In St Marys hospital the main women’s and maternity unit, and where the concept of the chandelier began, we were to hold a drop in […]

BOAT PAINTING Continueing with my large boat painting. It’s getting closer to what I’m after – not quite there yet but have repainted the boat at least 3 times trying to get to a more impressionistic image. Also trying to […]

Sporting League Results: Game 11 Pointeso cemented their title credentials with a comfortable win over lowly Chamber Athlete. Pointeso boss: ‘It’s good to get back to winning ways. I think we’re a much tighter outfit compared to last season. Our […]

ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE My Marion Keene doll lives! Karin in the States has done a great job of bringing mini Marion alive. The doll is a combination of poses from Marion’s 50’s heyday and I am looking forward to […]

Fashion images reveal the unreal – they portray a perfection that fails to exist and which resists any hint of unpleasantness. So, do they have any value at all? Seemingly trivial details of fashion – the turn of a collar, […]

Mass media sources tend to echo traditional perspectives – to maintain a position of status quo. The nuances of such perspectives may be so deeply ingrained as to be unrecognisable – part of a natural background interference – affecting the […]

MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #17 Role of artist-led organisations “Visual artists are the experimental branch of a larger cultural movement investigating the politics of representation.”[1] In defining what artist-led organisations provide, contributors to the study characterised artist-led organisations as being clear-minded, […]

MEASURINGTHEEXPERIENCE #18 This should not be interpreted as being because artists aren’t sufficiently experienced to get their businesses going within the same time span as other types of business, or because they aren’t well enough versed in the ways of […]

Yesterday, I did the long drive to Leeds to pick up the work from our last SCIBase exhibition – ‘Inhospitable 1.1’ at 64 Wellington St. ( one of East Street Arts (ESA) project spaces ) Packing up the work and […]