
The Lost Arts project
Lost Arts is a partnership set up by eight unions whose members will be directly affected by cuts to the arts. The project’s coordinator explains what it’s all about.
Lost Arts is a partnership set up by eight unions whose members will be directly affected by cuts to the arts. The project’s coordinator explains what it’s all about.
Conjunction 12 is the third edition of Stoke-on-Trent’s contemporary arts biennial. We talk to artist and curator Anna Francis and to Bethan Lloyd Worthington, one of this year’s commissioned artists.
HASHTAG GENEROSITY A Twitter curation On the morning of Monday 29th October, I did a general search in Twitter under ‘generosity’. I was struck by how people interpreted and used ideas of generosity to communicate on Twitter. I selected 10 […]
Distillation, documentation, participation… Homeopathically speaking we will always be there which underpins the non-documenting stance. Well, provided the receiver was present. Maybe when ideas get so convoluted, it’s time to take stock and say’ just why are we doing this?’ […]
In my last post I wrote a bit about a project that I’m putting together in which I would travel across the North Downs from Surrey to Kent, round the coast past Dover to Brighton and back to Surrey again. […]
Here are some images forwarded to me by the Here Is Where We Meet group, in residence currently at The Queen of Hungary Project Space. They are ‘in conversation’ tomorrow evening with Nell Croose-Myhill of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual […]
Sometime late afternoon today, I’d reached a point where I just wanted to tip the contents of all my boxes on the floor ,leave them in a tangled mess and go home. I was so tired and agitated… sick of […]
Time gets used up really quickly on my day off these days, but it does at last feel as if a few things are starting to happen. Tomorrow I’m meeting my friend Chris, who, with her husband Brian, runs a […]
Parliamentary Archive Today was our group London trip. On arrival after a welcome cup of tea and a biscuit (thank you Laura), Mari arrived to take us to the Acts room in Victoria Tower. The tower was designed specifically to […]
Recent decisions on business rates relief due to central government cuts are threatening the future of two studio and gallery spaces in Liverpool.
Christie’s, London
12 – 15 October 2012
Liverpool Tate, Liverpool
15 September 2012 – 7 April 2013
Deborah Smith explores modes of dissemination for contemporary cultural practices. Includes introduction from guest editor Smith, and article contributions from William Davies, Maria Fusco, Adam Sutherland, Sally O’Reilly, Sacha Craddock and Rob Wilson. From the a-n Collections series. Pdf [size: […]
Launched in 2009, The Manchester Contemporary is an art fair that looks to encourage and develop a market for critically engaged contemporary art in North West England. We talk to Paulette Terry Brien of The International 3 who, alongside Laurence Lane, has been Curatorial Coordinator for the last three editions of the fair.
Lauren Healey talks to Neville Gabie about his extensive experience of residencies in settings from building sites to Antarctica, embedding himself in communities and the importance of establishing the right kind of relationships.
London Last Friday I went to London to visit the Parliamentary Archives at Westminster. I had the opportunity to look at documents which relate to our five Norwich commissioners. I will be going back with the group tomorrow to explore […]
After seeing some collage work, I like the idea of using this to literally personalise foxes rather than representing them or using them as symbolism for something else. But at the same time keeping their stereotype of sneaky or even […]
Mock Artist Talk +2 Q. The recent project ‘Survived Socialism’ in the Window at Airspace Gallery [15-21 October 2012] exhibited new sculptures which had a minimalist approach. Was that intentional or did it develop that way? A. The works themselves […]
Introduction to the Induction I feel like a student again going to university for the first time. The Fine Art Department at The University of Salford is a neat and compact building made up of studios, workshops and project spaces. […]