Untitled blog post from "Artist’s notes"
Decided to completely rehang my show today to make it more about process and emphasise the fact that it is work in progress.
Decided to completely rehang my show today to make it more about process and emphasise the fact that it is work in progress.
It has been a brilliant day. I have been exploring London with fellow student, Sarah Rilot. We visited AVA in Islington where Kate Mccgwire is having her first solo show. Huge beautiful installations of feathers and smaller delicate works were […]
A few more photos Finally the photographing of the documents is complete, well undoubtedly there will be one or two images I may need to go back and take but I have plenty to be going on with. After spending […]
After yesterday’s announcement by Newcastle City Council that it intends to cease funding the arts in order to meet central government budget cuts, we talk to two visual arts organisations affected by the proposals.
At the end of October, Arts Council England announced its new structure, in response to a 50% cut in its admin budget from central government. The former Executive Director of ACE North East assesses the shape the organisation is in and expresses some concerns for the future.
Graduating in 2012 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Time Based Art & Digital Film, Sylvia Law has been selected for 2013’s edition of RSA New Contemporaries, and has since returned from the John Kinross Scholarship in Florence.
Kate Murdoch’s post on her 1st blogiversary, as Marion Michell called it, is lovely and affirming. It is simply wonderful to be acknowledged and it’s profoundly humbling to see people’s positive reaction to what you do and say. Thank you, […]
Now to the art! Although I fell into a tired slump afterwards my artist-self, that part of me that lies down last, felt renewed, refreshed, re-energised on a deep level. That I did not see what I expected turned out […]
It is important for me to offer my pupils a broad variety of ideas, stimuli and starting points once they have completed a certain amount of set tasks to help them focus in the initial stages of developing their own […]
Crisis – Opportunity? You would have thought that by the final year a student would have everything figured out but it would be dangerous to assume this. In fact we are still learning. At the end of my 1st year […]
So my brief mention of the mural yesterday has prompted an a-n tweet of this : www.a-n.co.uk/p/381668/ Oh how I wish I was anywhere near a recent graduates ideal pay – never mind somebody with several years experience! I am […]
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 and tried to do an […]
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 had a few hours […]
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 belongings. I selected items that […]
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 fabiric. I thought it created […]
Progress A week has passed since being given the go ahead on my proposal and images have been arriving from Parliamentary Archives and permissions for using some others is being sought. I’m spending plenty of time resizing images and organising […]
BA Fine Art at Oxford Brookes encourages students to engage critically, explore imaginatively and take risks, to form an independent fine art practice. The broad-based course aims to equip students with creative, interpretive, critical and analytical skills to develop an […]
Artist-led organisation Studio Voltaire opens an ambitious fundraising venture in the heart of London’s Mayfair, with contributions from Jeremy Deller, Mark Leckey, Linder, Cory Arcangel and many more.
A new petition is calling for Brighton & Hove City Council to protect artists’ and makers’ workspaces.
Axis, the online resource for contemporary art, celebrates its 21st birthday today.