MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE – 12 “The Arts Council…has handed down responsibilities to the regional arts boards who in turn have farmed out functions to mini-quangos. Every step of the way a new little bureaucracy has been born to ensure the […]
Mary Dupontesco waiting outside the hip Gallery Mavo Fazed awaiting her interview for an unpaid internship with the potential of making some high calibre contacts. Intercom voice: ‘Yes, this is Gallery Mavo Fazed can I help you?’ ‘I’ve got an […]
A little bit of history – where I come from. I have never studied art or photography my background at school and university was always science and I never really thought about studying art or photography. Having done all this […]
Shoe lady continued I was gathering Acts of Kindness on Saturday in Melbourne, when I met a dark haired woman from Sheffield. ‘Aha’ I said, ‘Were you sitting on the station wall with your shoes abandoned beside you last week?’ […]
I’ve got a few projects in my head, some big, some small, some quite realistic, some outrageously ambitious. But that’s where they are, in my head, some are half typed. I need to get something off the ground before I […]
All the way down to Hastings again today….to take the work to the Hastings Museum and Gallery. Discovered that the museum curator had chosen part of one of my images for a huge poster at the gate. Brilliant. Wonder what […]
As the inaugural, artist-run CAVE Art Fair draws to a close in Liverpool, we get the views of some of the exhibiting artists – and a potential buyer.
Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
7 – 19 September 2012
GALERIE GERKEN, BERLIN
8 September – 11 October 2012
New Scanner 54 Art Prize Preview until the end of October. Listi 8 has been busy renovating our new space in Pointeso Parkway over the summer months. The new gallery is located at the former non – place Workshops on […]
Currently Reading: Mark Dion – Archaeology (1999) Black Dog Publishing p.18 On Cabinets of Curiosities, Colin Renfrew outlines a distinction between Natural Curiosities and Artificial Curiosities; naturalia and artificiosa which underlies much museum classification. He also outlines divisions between nature […]
In truth I am overwhelmed, yet the approaching wave has not broken across the bow. My work explores layering through the medium of history. This revelation coming to me as a fever grew to lay me low, brought on by […]
The Art Takeaway! Oxford Collection Museum of Contemporary Rubbish participated in The Art Takeaway! at Tsangs Kitchen, Oxford in June 2012. The Art Takeaway! is an interactive production where audience members choose from a menu of original art. A distinctive […]
TRASH Art Exhibition Thursday 13 September 2012 The Basement, Brighton Museum of Contemporary Rubbish participated in the TRASH Art Exhibition as part of the TRASH Postgraduate Conference at the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. The […]
TRASH Conference Friday 14 September 2012 University of Sussex Tracey Potts was the keynote speaker on Your Own Personal Landfill: Stuff, Matter and the Myth of Eco-decluttering Her presentation focus was on clutter and stuff vs matter, challenging the pseudo-biomedical […]
Walking my chihuahua-pomeranian, Bella, this morning, trying to be mindful and appreciate the moment, the few days we get of curling Autumn breezes here before it just gets cold, thinking about what a practice is. I like Sophie Cullinan’s idea […]
Liverpool Biennial 2012: Hospitality: The Unexpected Guest I’ve only seen a fraction of the Biennial so far, and not much rubbish to note except Laura Keeble’s John Moores Painting Prize short-listed “I’d like to teach the world to sing!” which […]
Museum of Contemporary Rubbish is back at it this week with another exhibtion and collection, this time in Lincoln. Abandoned At The Exit Wednesday 19 September 2012 Revival, Sincil Street, Lincoln, UK Exhibiting artists: Ehud Lavski, Alice Bradshaw, Laura Wilson, […]
Hi both So lovely to open my e-mail inbox and see you both in there. Huge, humungus congratulations Elena; you worked so hard and gave it your absolute all, and we all loved going on the journey with you. I […]
A day of research, thinking and reading in preparation for writing/making the text for my piece “I have Nothing To Say’ for the Inhospitable show. This has variously involved, in no particular order: -looking at Douglas Gordon early text pieces […]
Untitled (Firewall) which was showing at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent came down last week, I was super pleased with it! I’ve never been more worried about a show in the weeks running up to it, I was concerned about making […]
Although the residency doesn’t officially begin until Tuesday 18th, when we have a welcoming party for all 10 residents, today I met with 2 of the residents from the programme. Galen Olmsted is an installation artist who studied on the […]
This will be my first visit to Berlin and my first Curatorial Residency. I intend to use this blog to document the research I develop during this 3-month residency at Node Center for Curatorial Studies. The research I develop will […]
