Lucy Harvey – Chronology Wigan Canal & River Trust Office 08/11/12-20/12/12 Lucy Harvey is a visual artist responding to our narrative relationship with objects through craft processes, assemblage and mixed media approach. Her small scale sculpture and installations appropriate objects […]
Interview with Lucy Harvey (see previous post for more information) AB: Why do you work with rubbish/trash/discards? LH: My main motive lies in collection and from my own need to amass physical mementoes from my travels; the things I collect […]
Once again I’ve found myself appreciating being part of a community via Artists Talking. Being partially deaf, it’s infinitely easier for me to communicate in writing. Listening requires a lot of concentration, I often miss quite a bit of any […]
PROVENANCE: The Archive Show Mistaken Presence at Greyfriars, Lincoln 12 April 2012 – 6 March 2013 Provenance marks the beginning of a yearlong project of new artist commissions that look to reflect on the nature of storing, displaying and re-telling […]
Have had a great week. I’ve been in residence in Space Gallery Folkestone where i am also showing work. One of the first visitors was fellow artist and a-n blogger Jane Ponsford who is planning a lovely itinerant project around […]
Currently reading: The Value of Things – Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska (August/Birkhauser, 2000) http://mfaroundtable.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/value_of_things_intro_museum_pt1.pdf Preface Nick Barley and Stephen Coates introduce this publication examining of the two institutions of Selfridges Department Store and the British Museum as a web […]
Currently reading: The Value of Things – Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska (August/Birkhauser, 2000) (Part 2 of 4) Part Two: The Store Walter Benjamin recognised arcades as miniature models of bourgeoisie world as well as birthplace of modern consumer culture. […]
Currently reading: The Value of Things – Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska (August/Birkhauser, 2000) (Part 3 of 4) Part Three: Shopping Shopping as purchasing at leisure was incepted over 100 years ago. “Rather than merely ‘buying’ something, we are now […]
Currently reading: The Value of Things – Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska (August/Birkhauser, 2000) (Part 4 of 4) Part Four: Culture Industry Here the authors provide an critical account of the culture industry. On the public and private faces of […]
After re-reading the Lefebvre text, I took some time to relate it to my practice, and it has afforded me a useful period of reflection – I’m becoming more aware that it will be difficult to re-make Watermark here in […]
Following on from a very informative tutorial with our visiting tutor I have been re-evaluating what I am trying to do. She suggested that some of my work is unresolved and this has made me realise that I have not […]
I am back again, finally, after sorting out all of the kerfuffle with eldest son. The Mail Art Exhibition finished on a much more positive note, and is now awaiting its next destination, which will be the U.S! The interview […]
Organised by Cubitt Education, this year’s Festival of Blackboards considers the practicalities of affecting change at a local level.
Artist-led groups come together in Bristol for a day of discussion and presentations about collaboration.
Frieze Art Fair 2012, London
11 – 14 October 2012
UCA Gallery, Chatham
22 – 27 October 2012
Various locations, Stoke-on-Trent
2 November – 21 December 2012
I’m slowly starting become more confident in my new academic role, but as the weeks progress, I’m finding it incrementally more confusing. The more I read, the wider my research question becomes, and given that I’m looking at theoretical and […]
Presentation: A happy disaster! So this week I wanted to write a little about what I’ve been up to for the past couple of weeks, seeing as I haven’t posted for a while. This week I was completely preoccupied by […]
Depressing but not surprising to read that London’s councils are selling off the family silver (‘Flashmob against sale of Henry Moore’s Old Flo’). I have often feared that Britain is collectively becoming like some senile old relative from a previously […]
I have been working on the e-mailout blurb for the U.F.O discussion and video screening in the Project Space next Wednesday. Predictably, because I am doing the talk myself, alongside Nicola Naismith, I’ve left it rather late for a mailout, […]
The second instalment of Tamarin Norwood’s initial response to Paul Scott’s sign language artwork ‘Three Queens’: 2 – After watching for the first time… — Two things came up during this first encounter with the poem. I was anxious. I […]
I am not going to lie; it has been a turbulent year for me so far. I am so passionate about my art, and being an artist is all I can imagine myself doing in life, and yet, for all […]
I am a concpetual artist who makes work about death and religion. I am preoccupied with ideas of mortality and the way this clashes with my atheist beliefs.
