On Tuesday evening Ros Barker and I attended a West Kent Reception for the great and the good. All dressed up and being very grown up we soon found we were the only arts related invitees and we were definitely […]
A new home for Edinburgh Printmakers and the expansion of Cove Park artists’ centre are among the projects receiving major investment from Creative Scotland.
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
21 July – 30 September 2012
Recently I have been re-visiting Arthur Koestler’s 1964 classic ‘The Act of Creation’. It’s over 700 pages so I have only ever dipped in here and there, and I’m sure it must be very dated in art theory terms. Nevertheless […]
The rain is still trying to dampen our spirits, but camaraderie is high and everyone is focused not only on the launch, but on the six weeks ahead. That’s where we will come face to face with the public. I […]
It was now the beginning of August and the Olympics were in full swing, but it wasn’t all doom and gloom; I made a breakthrough with the Embassy and managed to get an outline of our project in front of […]
Over the next week I chased the Embassy and it paid off. They had as I thought, been busy with the Olympics, but were now able to engage in dialogue. We set up a meeting for the 10th Sept, how […]
There was only one thing for it – Be Firm! So I thought about it, and thought about it, and proposed to Philly (&Matt) that we stick to the original game plan and each artist just paint one child each. […]
Question … I hear you … What about the artists? Have they started work yet? Well it’s been quite a month. We got past the hurdle of artists agreeing to contribute more than one piece of work, but we were […]
This is the last week before I start the actual excavating and I think I’ve narrowed down my sites to four. I was originally planning to possibly do up to five but after some very eventful visits last week I […]
The strange thing about so many events and exhibitions going on at any one time- as in the Liverpool Biennial, sometimes has the knock on effect of ‘arting’ people out. I’m a little concerned that the exhibition that is presently […]
