
practicing
I wonder what a practice is and why it’s so important to have one.
I wonder what a practice is and why it’s so important to have one.
The short listed artists for the sixth Northern Art Prize are Margaret Harrison, Rosalind Nashashibi, Emily Speed and Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan.
Went to the AIR event in Whitstable yesterday and met lots of new people, something I enjoy doing. Am hatching a project around the idea of studio/creative space in Dover …. more on this later if it goes any further. […]
the reality of MY margins I’ve become aware this week that although my practice is socially engaged and negotiatiation is at the core, sometimes when something matters to me then there is no negotiation. At that point, I want to […]
Here’s an interesting dilemma: we’ve been approached by an artist who would like to block book the Project Space – a semi-permanent residency in other words. The considerations are: 1. That would pay for a portion of the rent for […]
Lunderbach Central Scholars Library. Kyla. Age 23 is scrolling the art opportunity pages on a Pointeso gallery website. ‘Hotel Trollov is a Pointeso based international curatorial laboratory of performance and installation. Perceptual paranoiac perspective and themes of surface valuation is […]
I’ve hung “Are You Listening?” up in school. The children loved them, made up stories about what the adult that made the hand marks was saying to the child, searched for the marks, twirled them and spoke to them. I […]
What is there to say except depressingly, friday has come early this week. sometime later…… re-edit of posting…… No I will not be defeated. With this badge I will be omnipotent. Look!
Induction Today I had a behind the scenes tour at the Norfolk Record Office (NRO). Being behind the scenes is something I image most artists relish and I am no exception. Susan, Principal Archivist at NRO was a great tour […]
Long before Banksy, artist Walter Kershaw was painting large-scale murals on the sides of condemned council buildings in 1970s Rochdale. Now his work is being celebrated in a Radio 4 documentary.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
30 June – 22 September 2012
Just before I went away, I wrote about how for the first time, I felt that I’d actually earned a holiday this year. I’ve been thinking about this, intrigued about where this new train of thought has come from. I’ve […]
I meant to end this blog months ago. The residency itself ended in February and we launched the book in early July. But happily Keeping Time won’t go away. Projects never have neat endings do they, even if events and […]
‘There is no story that is not true’ Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Dear Jean I always knew I had a guardian angel. I always knew I had a guardian angel Jean, I always knew I had one I […]
I remain highly ambivalent when I post here with details about how M.E. affects my life and art-practice. Almost as soon as I press ‘publish’ I want to suck the words back in – partly because illness is such a […]
17th august 2011 i blogged about a rejection of an exhibition proposal. a year later, that same proposal recieves this email “Hi Andrew Sorry for the delay in getting back to you but time has not been on my side […]
I think, this is the final post on ‘ What Keeps You Motivated to work in the arts…” Thanks to all those who contributed…..another debate to come! @marjojo2004 Art-making – best conversation with the world. Open. Speculative, Undogmatic. Best way […]
Just joined the Celeste network as it has cropped up several times over the past week so must be something that gets you noticed? Be interesting to see if anything comes of it. Random thought – are there any male […]