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. […]
Arts Council England confirms impact of Chancellor’s autumn statement on its grant-in-aid budget.
Three artists share £1,500 prize fund.
In the third instalment of our Christmas series offering alternatives to high street shopping, we profile festive fairs and selling shows taking place this week in Glasgow, Gateshead, Oxford, Northampton, London and Plymouth.
A statement released by the board of Scottish arts funding body Creative Scotland commits to major changes at the organisation.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich
20 October – 11 November 2012
Platform Arts, Belfast
2 – 17 November 2012
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 […]
Black Dog Publishing, London
1 October 2012
I’ve spent the last few weeks collaborating with artists Amelia Critchlow, Jane Harris and Chris Cawkwell, we are in the process of setting up an artist collective, we hope to be able to secure premises and are in the midst […]
Me Then Now is quite demanding and its strength is showing forcing me toward a difficult decision: persevere or give up? I believe the work has value. The most readily accessible part is the making of ephemeral portraits on a […]
Sporting League Results: Game 10 Athletico held Pointeso to a one – one draw, ending the leaders one hundred percent record. Sporting Radio Pundit L: ‘I think I’ve just witnessed the goal of the season courtesy of the Athleticans lone […]
