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Domesticity. I had forgotten how much of it everyone else was doing. The washing machine repair man is here. He is miserable, patronising and has an air of smirky resentfulness about him. But what’s he got to complain about? He […]

Inspired by a conversation between some Twitter friends about a piece in the latest edition of anarchist letterpress journal The Cunnigingham Amendment ( https://warrendraper.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/o-fr…) I’ve decided to take my own 2 week ‘media detour’ involving a 14 day self imposed […]

[…continuation – see previous post] But I think showing this work in a gallery space can be problematic: articulating the communicative aspects (the most important bit for the artist) to an audience is not straightforward, and requires time and commitment […]

‘Dialogic art practice’ Came across this term in ‘Conversation Pieces’ (Grant H. Kester, 2004) and very excited about how it’s re-framing my world and thinking about what art is, and can be. It’s a brilliantly heavy read – well-researched, without […]

MEAUSURING THE EXPERIENCE – 10 Does a studio group or any other artist-led resource provide anything more than affordable space or access to equipment? As my Survey of group studio provision [1]indicated, nearly half of studio groups are involved in […]

MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE – 11 Are artist-led organisations more successful at attracting or retaining audiences? Quantifying ‘audiences’ as regards visual arts activities is not easy because although it is possible to cite how many children participated in an residency, it […]

I am the Campbell part of Sagar and Campbell. I’m hoping the informal nature of blogging fits with my own nature, being dyslexic.We (sagar and campbell) have worked together as public, community and glass artists for about 10 years. This […]

Airspace Studio Show ’12 Preparations for the upcoming group exhibition at Airspace Gallery featuring all studio artists (including the two graduate artists-in-residence) are underway with titles and ideas bouncing off the walls like so many footballs. The general feeling is […]

Trash Conference is nearly here! On Thursday I’m off to Brighton to present the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish at The Basement (Kensington Street, Brighton) as part of the TRASH Postgraduate Conference at the University of Sussex http://sussextrashconference.wordpress.com I’m showing a […]

Precious Metal. By Ruth Geldard. There was no trumpet. And looking at the disparate group of five musicians setting up onstage, I thought it unlikely that one would be produced. We had obviously made a mistake, even so I felt […]

Made it to the studio! Been too long. Found everything I had abandoned in July all there, covered in a lovely layer of dead flies. A delightful welcome! Took many bags of stuff from my house back again. Began endless […]