My last post saying i was back on track must have tempted the Fates. Yesterday I learnt that all the artists in my studios are to be evicted. Four weeks to get out and find somewhere else to put all […]
Pedagogy is the word of the week. It’s also reading week, or (un)reading week as it’s colloquially known here in the fine art department. This means that there is no formal teaching, which doesn’t really affect me, but did give […]
This is me playing with bricks from my baby walker, would like to project this onto perspex within the walker.
Despite having given it over a week, I have failed to illicit a single comment on the work I submitted in my previous blog. The irony of this hasn’t passed me by – and maybe within this there lies a […]
One of my aims during this residency was to use it as a springboard to: Develop an online presence and investigate new audiences for my work. I’ve principally done this by creating a crowdfunding campaign (through crowdfunding site sponsume) and […]
With Ljusfältet part one (as I now think of it) out of the way it is time to work on part two! presentation of documentation gallery version of installation artists conversation booklet There are so many things that I would […]
Garbage as a Measure of Consumption The Guardian reports that Alexi Savov, an assistant professor of finance at New York University’s Leonard N Stern School of Business, has used municipal solid waste (MSW), or simply garbage, as a ‘new’ measure […]
Digital, digital, digital Its all go with the digital just now. Yesterday afternoon I spent time at NRO to use their studio lights to take photographs of the documents. Today I had some time in the studio planning the edit […]
‘Changin’ Scotland – The Role of the Arts, Culture and Identity in Scotland’ looked at how artists and others can influence public policy.
A collection of material relating to open exhibitions, including top tips on assessing and applying for open exhibitions and on setting one up.
In an effort to keep my brain fit, and keep in touch with everyone at BCU I’ve signed up for this post-MA reading group for researchers and (prospective and current) PhD students. It seemed like a good idea at the […]
Can generosity be a reciprocal practice? Artist interview with Kate Murdoch (part three, continued from yesterday) Kate Murdoch is a London based artist whose work reflects a fascination with the passage of time and the contrast between the permanence of […]
#5 I’m trying to get away from making pretty pictures of fairies and it has been proving a little more difficult than I had initially anticipated. I took a look at Paula Rego’s work that makes reference to Disney and […]
Exhibition Time Spent a lot of time this week thinking and planning for my exhibition in January 2013. Went to the exhibition venue and began sketching out some possibilities. There are 3 distinct areas that I can use so I […]
On the wall of my studio I drafted out a time-line for Veltas’ Journey’ which bullet points the 18 months of her displacement in time and events. I have not moved from the first bullet point! There are 5 canvases […]
Here is where we meet…Thank you to everyone who came to the events at the Queen of Hungary Project Space ‘Here is where we meet…’ We had a great few days of work, professional development and feedback. Thank you also […]
These are experiments with scale for my wall drawings – a couple of small tests and a large one. This is just to see how scale changes the perspective – does it gain effect or loose effect? I have begun […]
Here is the beast. B(7) Awating some ‘weights and measures’ evidence from the official weighbridge. sockateer s
