Richard Taylor shares a Google document with Faye Green, a 2012 Fine Art graduate from Nottingham Trent University, who’s not afraid to pull apart her work to produce sculpture anew.
I have been selected to participate in the AA2A residency at the University of Salford and I will document the experience on my blog. The AA2A project provides placements for visual artists and designers in Higher and Further Education institutions […]
Relentless, with purpose I move away from you through, mist and green cold field a darkness commenced with others lost to play in the laps of the gods ‘Why take life that has potential’ Autism Research Centre 8th October: Wake […]
Back into the groove After last weeks slump I have been more ‘up for it’ this week. Not all my browsing last week was work aversion. I did browse through a couple of arts listing sites and identified some opportunities. […]
“So what has all this achieved?” It demands. “That last painting – is it your last painting? It was something of a mess, wasn’t it?” He had to agree. He had pressed on with it in despite misgivings. The one […]
A few images and not a lot of writing today … First image is of a tiger painting I created over the summer months for the simple enjoyment of painting – it became more and more illustrative than I meant […]
i played all day. this makes me happy the video outcome documentation of the day.
Discussion with LS (Part 6/6) I just wanted to bring the discussion back to your course and your experiences after graduation? Did you initially find it difficult to find work that was related to art therapy? Not really, I was […]
Discussion with LS (Part 5/6) Did undertaking personal therapy yourself inform your sense of the client/ therapist relationship? Yeah, it was important. You need to be able to be aware of what it’s like to be on the other side […]
Discussion with LS (Part 4/6) There seems to be a range of art therapy courses which are defined by different strands of psychoanalytical theory/ theorists. My course at the moment for instance is Jungian-based though I wondered if this was […]
Discussion with LS (Part 3/6) Typically art therapy applicants are required to have some level of clinical experience prior to starting on the course (at Goldsmiths this constitutes 1500 hours of working in health, social services or education). Can you […]
Discussion with LS (Part 2/6) I’d previously been deliberating a lot about whether or not I could be an art therapist. I generally find that when I talk about it to others they’re never quite sure what it is and […]
Discussion with LS (Part 1/6) A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to meet with Lee Simmons, an artist and art therapist who I first met whilst working as an intern at South Hill Park Art Centre. Lee was […]
I am coming to the end of my first site. It has been an interesting few weeks at The Boffy (Norton Well) and it has provided me with an array of finds. In total I carried out five separate excavations […]
‘I was always jealous of his better Christmas presents’ Autism Research Centre October 9th: awake disastrously early – just when you need sleep uninvited ‘fight or flight’ steps in – retime alarms – down to breakfast at eight (it’s always […]
‘Metrics of instruments – taxonomic obsessions’ Autism Research Centre. October 10th: Wake at 4 with start – PTSD bad during the night – snooze successfully till alarm – breakfast at 8 after packing – same items as yesterday – collect […]
‘Ripple marks and essential bodies’ Portsmouth and Train to Cambridge. October 23th: Spend most of the day on admin, drawing sorting the previous weeks logging on Olympic project at British Geological Survey – light lunch – prepare to leave for […]
Residency Plan Access to the AA2A scheme at Salford will give me the time, space and funds to make new work. In my arts education I have studied Fine Art, however I want to attend the university of Salford as […]
‘Reverse preconceptions – high expectations’ Autism Research Centre. October 24th: Wake early disturbed by nights dreaming. Pack bag then wash – trying to ignore the hum. Down to breakfast sit on own and observe the few others down at that […]
I came across this artists work today when I was doing some research. Nothing to do with the research but thought I’d share. http://www.jordaneagles.com/hemoglyphs.html His work is beautiful and yet so repulsive too. Watch his videos to see the processes […]
Well what can I say I’m delighted to write that I’ve completed my MA and have a certificate to prove it… Challenging and amazing at the same time so if there’s anyone out there thinking about academic study or already […]
There was a girl sitting opposite me on the bus the other day. She had lots of piercings and those scary ear rings that stretch the lobe so much that they flap about when she moved. She had an oversized […]
