
Jessie Brennan: Cities & Eyes
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I think our relationship to the world is tied to our relationship with objects. We are surrounded by things we make, modify and throw away in a continuous cycle. The form of these objects depends on their function, and function […]
Water Light: Experimental film project with artists Harriet Gifford and Hazel Stone. This is a free public screening of short films by us, the two artists, onto the facade of the old cinema building on Whitstable High Street. The event […]
Following inspiration from an unlikely source, it is clear that what needs to be depicted; what needs to be represented and painted is LEADERSHIP and HISTORY. A uniform is more than bureaucratic, it is armour; a shield; from those that […]
The BID people did return and said something smarmy along the lines of “Made any money today” so I smiled and re-iterated I was giving money away. My proposal to re-enact Steve McQueen in The Great Escape as the Cooler […]
Almost exactly a year after my plan, I re-visit my plan and discover that it is not going to plan. At all. This was my plan: “A Plan 1) Become more motivated and do more visual research 2) When not […]
If you’d like to learn more about writing proposals, read my latest Rebecca Projects blog post: ‘A Good Proposal’
Ooh, quite excited that the lovely Alice Bradshaw is coming to Lincoln to install some work for our exhibition at the Empty Shop space!! And this morning I also received copies of Ehud Lavski’s comic The Invader, which is going […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE – 8 Do artist-led organisations improve with age? Are the ones which only last a short time ‘unsuccessful’? Many organisations in this report have lasted many years and are now as much a part of the visual […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE – 9 I studied300 artist-led groups in 1995 so one thing I’ll be doing to update my original research is reviewing how many of that original number remain now and of those who do, finding out whether […]
Would you like to take part in Li-E Chen’s three months research and development project PERFORMING THE CHANGE? Activities will involve: – visiting the Hayward Gallery and study closely the Contemporary Chinese artists’ works in ART OF CHANGE: NEW DIRECTIONS […]
With the first week of the project under my belt, I’ve identified several sites on the map that I will be looking to explore further this week and had my first meeting with Keith over at Letchworth Museum. I’ve been […]
Ian Robinson With a month to go to my show on 10th Oct still plenty work ahead http://lnkd.in/x6rHyK (facebook event) see photo
as per. not much time to blog – just to update: Superhero costumes – 2 finished, 2 half complete New project – nearly ready to submit for funding (fingers crossed and recrossed) Children’s autumn workshops – planned – except for […]
It seems to be a time of endings at the moment. Ros and I took the Farningham Hobby Horse Project out for the last time on Saturday. Beautiful weather and the usual lovely crowd. We should have been returning the […]
NewBridge Fieldwork ::: Berlin ::: September 2012 NewBridge Fieldwork is the first part of a new project and collaboration between The NewBridge project, (Newcastle upon Tyne) and Berlinerpool (Berlin). The intentions of the project are to promote and develop new […]
Manifesta9: Coal > Rubbish (Part 1) Manifesta9 is definitely all about coal. Based in the former coal mining building in Waterschei, Genk (Limburg, Belgium) the curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, with associate curators Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades, have gone OTT on […]
Manifesta9: Coal > Rubbish (Part 2) In thinking about the coal and rubbish of Manifesta9, the question arose; is coal rubbish? It could be considered 300 million year old organic carbon-based rubbish. But in its natural, mined state it has […]
Well it’s properly over now. The babies have come home and are shoved in those big blue Ikea bags, waiting for me to find them a home. The song is over, the fat lady sang. I sang all the way […]
DO YOU KNOW GREATHAM AT ALL? erm no actually John I don’t but I’m sure I can Google it (haven’t got sat nav). It’s a bit past Hartlepool towards Middlesborough then off into the wilds of Billingham. An odd land […]