Philanthropy We gathered again last Thursday at the Norfolk Record Office to further explore documents from the strong room. Each document is related to the Land Act Tax and the five selected commissioners who were selected to be explored in […]
Michael Bland While some of the group were exploring The Friars Society, one of the history detectives, Patricia and Laura from the Parliamentary archive explored a series of documents related to Michael Bland. Bland has been described in some notes […]
Ramblings of life after graduating from a fine art degree and working in the education sector.
The fifth edition of Brighton’s bold and innovative photography festival – ‘Agents of Change’ – opens to the public tomorrow.
We report from the opening of the fifth Artes Mundi prize in Cardiff, featuring seven international artists including Tania Bruguera, Phil Collins and Teresa Margolles.
today is limited time day so i just want to share another video created during this year. The work original idea is connected to the Sound and Vision performance mentioned in yesterdays blog. The concept of the revolving eye developed […]
It is only a few weeks away before my exhibition of Urban Nature at Alexandra Palace. I will be at gallery TG L9 from 11-14th October 2012. Please pop by and say hello, sit and have a chat or even […]
Another thing that struck me in conversation yesterday with Joanna about the collective pieces made for The Voyagers was that it allowed me to deal with emotional content in a way that is ok for me to handle. Making something […]
I spent the day down at the Boffy today doing my first actual excavation. I decided to start the excavation with a 10m x 10m area covering the entrance. I recall Keith mentioning that entrances can bring up some interesting […]
Arrival in Liverpool, Monday 1 October, 1.45pm A pack of schoolboys zigzagging up and down the steps of St George’s Hall blazers flapping in the wind all jonpaulgeorgeandringo, taking photos A beach flip-flop on the pavement Japanese students standing in […]
I’m going to shift the focus of this blog – it’s due to an excellent talk given by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley on Surviving as an artist. The key thing I heard was the importance of communication – of […]
Ljusfältet* got the go-ahead this week, which is both great and scary! The context is a little odd though – it is too complex to explain however I am a little nervous about how political the whole situation seems to […]
Is performance art an under represented minority in contemporary art gallerys?
I spent some time drawing axe heads in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and then found an interesting essay by Herbert Read in The Origins of Form in Art. He talks about early human artefacts such as these passing […]
Invigilation is always a problem, no matter how organised you think you are. The rota we set up for the two exhibitions was pretty tight anyway, so when one person told us she couldn’t do her day, there was very […]
I have launched my first Kickstarter Campaign for this project! I have launched my first Kickstarter campaign for this project. It’s taken me ages to put together as I did a lot of research ahead of time to understand how […]
