this morning i have accepted my conditional offer of a place on an ma in art therapy for enrolment in septmeber 2013. my condition is to pass a second interview where i can demonstrate some wider reading about the subject. […]
The ‘Skip Day’* at the end of July rewarded me with four doors in addition to the one I found in the abandoned in the cellar at the apartment block. These are going to feature in my new work. So […]
Had quite a nice day off today and although I’ve spent a lot of my time making paper planes, I did it while sitting in the garden, so it didn’t feel so much of a chore. By the end of […]
The last couple of days have literally been a case of getting my head down and making some work. I’m really excited by the drawings I’m currently producing and the language of the marks I am making is quickly evolving, […]
Rokiskis & Obelai The records we have found for the Beinarts lead us to the town of Rokiskis and the nearby village Obelai, in north east Lithuania. In Yiddish, these Shtetls were known as Rakishok and Abel. Online, we find […]
Participation. Documents of Contemporary Art. Edited by Claire Bishop, 2006. Viewers as producers A book about the social dimension of participation, rather than the activation of individual viewer in interactive or installation art. Reviews the history of practices since ’60s […]
Lets talk UFO’s The talk in Liverpool went well, it was a great opportunity to order our thoughts and working methodology. It was good to reflect on the process and share it with Dave Evans (who first suggested the UFO […]
After few months of editing my previously collected material I am back on my journey recording four new locations to complete the 12 hours sound clock of “Krakow to Venice” project. The first location to visit after the break is […]
Ostrava Continued As the first orientation point we visited the Nove Radnice (new town hall) – largest town hall complex in Czech Republic, it was build in 1925-1930 and it is one of many examples of modernist architecture in town. […]
I’ve been reading Michael Atavar’s ‘How to be an Artist’ (top tips always appreciated) and finding it working in a very serendipitous way. Dipping in at random – like taking a fortune card, I have always found something pertinant to […]
As Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery relaunches with a renewed vigour for artist development, its director shares the lessons learnt over a challenging and rewarding year-and-a-half.
Blackall Studios, Shoreditch, London
5 – 8 August 2012
Out of the Blue, Edinburgh
2 – 30 August 2012
‘Jobs for the Boys’. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01l7wqh A great short programme on Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ re new Evidence that there is still great discrimnation in the arts and that unless you come from a middle class background it is still very […]
I arrived in Leicester yesterday, and today is day 1 of installing and making my work. It’s a little bit like a 4 day micro residency with a private view on the 5th day. The space is huge, so my […]
Artifical Hells by Claire Bishop is out – GREAT READ! http://clairebishopresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06…
Read on line and on paper: The Long Nineties Revisiting art’s social turn and the 1990s – the decade that has yet to end http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the-long-ninet…
With two months to go to my solo show on 10th Oct there is still a fair bit to do. See enclosed the studio….
