One final image. It’s not my favourite “holiday snap”, but everyone else seems to like it.
Last night was the opening of ‘Autography’ at the Nunnery Gallery. I had a great evening and received some lovely feedback on my work. A number of people were also tweeting using the exhibition tag #MadgeGill. Highlights included: @RosalindDavis: “A […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE – 6 Stage 1 report – Refreshing alternatives collected short information from c300 artists’ groups/organisations including – artist run festivals/events – community arts groups with visual arts prominent – education groups – exhibition-based groups – fine art […]
Approaching the first anniversary of my move to Stockholm it is not surprising that I am looking back as well as forwards. It is hard for me to believe that this time last year I was packing up my house […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE – 7 The Stage 1 study threw up a range of areas of questioning to be tested in the detailed case studies including: What kind of relationship should there be between artist-led organisations and public funding bodies? […]
Read my interview with Shireen Qureshi: Straight from the Nerves (thought I’d do straight forward in-your-face-advertising and cut to the chase) P.S. I hope you like the interview.
We are preparing for Desmond Brett’s Artist Conversation with Lee Grandjean this evening. The talk marks Desmond’s residency at our space. Desmond Brett took his BA and MA at the Slade, and has shown widely including in ‘Eastern Pavillions’, London […]
Bielsko-Biała Next town to record on the route is Bielsko-Biała. I know the town quite well. Some of my family lives here and some years ago I used to go to art school in Bielsko. I visit this town on […]
phew, what a round-a-bout. I am trying to organise a public outdoor screening for a new film as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite. Mostly I have encountered enthusiastic and helpful people but trying to establish whether or not I […]
Jack J Hutchinson’s residency at the Nunnery Gallery concludes with an exhibition of his drawings alongside those of Outsider artist Madge Gill. But how did this research project into the archive of a little known artist come about?
Artist in residence Keith Wilson will be discussing his work at S1 Artspace – and asking the audience to help complete it.
(continued from the last post) The lights in the gallery was something was worrying me for most of the week, but when I came back to the gallery on Saturday afternoon, it was much better, as some of the strip […]
THE SPARK THAT BLED Overheard, this morning, in the doorway of Snowden’s Greengrocers, Cross Roads: Albert Snowden: Its a sad end Man: He were eighty you know Albert: I didn’t know he cut his wrists Man: (turning to walk away, […]
I finally managed to see Tracy Emin’s She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea at Turner Contemporary, earlier this week. It’s such a beautiful title for a show apart from anything else. I took my parents with me as they […]
Using a very good lesson in how not to do things, I’ve spent the morning coating some of my paper objects in resin in the hope that it will strengthen them. I hadn’t used the resin since last summer and […]
DESMOND BRETT RESIDENCY A sunny, peaceful day at the Project Space and Desmond is some days into his stint here. Sounds of hammering, dragging, sploshing and ripping from behind the shuttered windows. Lots of improvisation and an energetic process of […]
Here is my new Superhero Costume entitled: Superhero Costume (belt). My children think I am mad, but then begged me to make them one – really hard to explain to them it’s not really THAT kind of superhero costume – […]
