Today I have been completing the fourth in my new series of postcard-sized drawings. I have documented my mark making process in a short promotional video for the exhibition. I’m pretty sure this type of video would horrify Gill, but […]
THE MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF INVENTION ah it’s good to be back. Well passing through actually. My other project (the Rink Revival – see project blog on here) is erm.. somewhat taking all of my time at the moment. But […]
Paint Club East: a talk by Rosie Snell at the Minories Gallery in Colchester Rosie talked about the physical, and practical aspects of her paintings as well as ideas, and influences, the starting point was the notion of reality as […]
The 21-strong list represents a range of practices from artists working across the Northern regions.
Anyone fond of the question ‘but is it art?’ will have a field day if they visit Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege during the Olympics, but they will probably have a bounce on it too.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
6 March 2012 – 27 January 2013
Expression of intertest that could contribute to a one day participatory event. Maps of the world, from memory (2012) Materials White A4 paper (landscape), clip-board and felt tip pens (coloured for children; black for adults). Instructions Draw a map of […]
Performed literal#37 at Hazard on Saturday.
60 40 Starting Point Series exhibition now up and running. Exhibition runs untill 23rd September. To hear clips of the artists talking about their work (me included) follow the link below: http://www.siobhandavies.com/studios/events/curren…
July Wakefield Artwalk: Rose Harries & #tweetart Wednesday 25 July 2012, 5-pm Westgate Studios, Wakefield In the Project Space: Westgate Studios Member Show Presumed Curable by Rose Harries A display of drawings taken from photographs of patients at Bethlem (Bedlam) […]
blueberry bushes in Machynlleth, Wales..the dappled light was welcome after so many days of rain!
Today I have been reading Deanna Petherbridge’s superb essay on Gill titled ‘Recouping Otherness’. She explains that, from the sparse facts of her life that we do know, Gill spent a long time in bed after a miscarriage and illness […]
Even though I’m not at the residency space today I have been thinking continuously about what I can do next and what I want to work on… Haven’t felt this motivated in months its so good to have a focus. […]
another 10 hour shift at the studio. For most of last I was in at 7.30am and left at 5.30pm. I tore paper, people came to visit or stopped as they walked by. They asked; ‘how much do you need?’ […]
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Last week, what felt like nearly everyone in the art community of Somerset arrived at Barrington Court for an afternoon with Antony Gormely. There was little in the way of advertising about this event so it was surprising at how […]
The last post on here was all about vermin and I concluded with writing about the irony of ‘rat’ being an anagram of ‘art’ – the rat ate my art! I’ve just had confirmation through of the dates to take […]
Take a line for a walk……see where it leads you. Mr Beckenkrager tells me his name is Prussian. We are in his conservatory in Seaton Carew; a seaside passing though point just south of Hartlepool. He is 80 now and […]
I’ve published a Research page on the MoCR blog including a reading list and further links: Reading List Baudrillard, Jean. (1968/1996). The System of Object. Verso. Baudrillard, Jean. (1997). Fragments. Verso. Berger, John. (1980). About Looking. Bloomsbury. Beuys, Joseph, et […]
