thinking about the difference between producing ideas as arts, and making works as arts.. producing ideas as a work of art: often focus on the concept, idea and result of the work or product. This can be very exciting and […]
Another great day out….down to Hastings to join the QR code walk around the town. Neil and Dan from Zeroh lead the walk – they having been responsible for implementing the project on behalf of Telling Stories. The QR codes […]
Sarah Pickstone is announced First Prize winner of John Moores Painting Prize 2012.
Olivier Larivière has won the £1,000 Exeter Contemporary Open 2012 award.
As Whitstable Biennale draws to a close this weekend, we talk to its director Sue Jones and explore how the town informs the art.
Public meeting in Glasgow to address the need for artists’ exhibition fees.
Please turn away if easily offended. Oh ages and ages ago, there was a discussion about the derogatory connotations that go alongside the term “Local Artist” and even the picture conjured up in my head is of an elderly watercolourist […]
Thank you for applying for the FLINT microfest. We received nearly 200 applications from artists across the UK, Europe and beyond. The quality of applications was extremely strong, and I am sorry to disappoint you but on this occasion your […]
I am a mature student on a five-year part-time degree in Fine Art at Bucks New University at High Wycombe and about to begin my final year. In my first four years I have worked in a range of media, […]
disembodied, re-embodied So here is the rest, or at least some of the owner of the shoes. I disconnected her from them digitally. Staying connected at the margins is quite difficult. Choosing which connectons to maintain, which to ditch requires […]
I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY I’m still swinging, sometimes pretty uncontrollably, between withdrawal and reaching out. The see saws of the first weeks of grief after the deaths of Nana and Maria have become less frequent but seem to be […]
Um, so, ever since I heard people, lecturers, talking about ‘art practice’ on my foundation course in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I’ve been curious as to what the term actually means, and why it’s so important to us to have a ‘practice.’ Rather […]
Been thinking that I might be being too irreverent to be taken seriously. But then I remembered some words of wisdom. Never a truer word said than in jest.
I am tired; it has been a busy week. My head is swimming with the tasks for my Swedish course (finish reading a novel that I only bought last week, learn all the tenses of 10 irregular verbs, write and […]
I am sitting on the floor of the Tate Turbine Hall and strangers keep coming up to me and telling me highly ppersonal stories about themselves. There is the young Chinese engineer who confesses to being a reformed liar, the […]
Lots of PVs around at the moment…… or Opening Nights as the more PC version now seems to be. Yesterday I drove to Battle and the Pure Art Fair PV because Ros Barker – my Farningham Hobby Horse partner- was […]
Part time five year degree course in Fine Art.
