Why talk about illness when talking about art and ideas is so much more interesting and comfortable? Because in the end a professional art-practice comprises of more than making the work – after all it needs to be exposed to […]
Visited Ort in Balsall Heath yesterday. Cute and cool higgledy piggledy cafe/gallery/performance space fronting the most amazing building. Celia showed us round this vast cavern of prospective artist studios, workshops and office spaces, topped off by a beautiful light and […]
Taking paper from the house to the shed and back in this unrelenting rain is a challenge. As are the leaks in the shed roof: not a good combination with paper – could lead to mould. The work itself is […]
Final Hurdles. Closing in on dates, the work has become more apparent to me; as a series of pictures, based on local and memorized imagery, with an inquisitive view into the relationships that occur throughout the making, thinking and finishing […]
Went to see Zhao Renhui (the Institute of Critical Zoologists) at Cardiff Chapter…amazing for its mix of fiction and fact and the quality of displays. It added another dimension to the concept of display with the use of diasec for […]
Blog continues here, as ‘State of Play’: www.a-n.co.uk/p/1927328
I am delighted to be showing my new glass work alongside work by 15 other women artists in the exhibition I am curating called Never Done. The aim of the exhibition is to show work by women artists from around […]
A collection of my most recent Photoshop editing using a variety of different background but keeping the same figure composition.
Studio days are flying by and I find it hard to believe it is almost a month since the last post. My work reflects my interest in my sensory responses to the experience of walking through cities, particularly London and […]
These are some thoughts I scribbled down yesterday, and I wondered if anyone could comment or point me towards some reading matter on the subject. Driving along today I began to reflect on the photographs I added to the Reside […]
So it’s been a while since I posted. Mainly this is due to the fact that it’s been a bit of a strange few months in which I’ve not been too sure what to write. Over most of this time […]
IAN IRVINE Most of my work involves using images, phrases, and appropriated aspects of popular culture to make (mostly) prints and paintings which draw on traditions from inside the canon of 20th century art, but also ‘encompass’ many other areas […]
Well…a lot of work going on in the back room here, but I have got to the point that I no longer know if things are hanging together well or quite where to go next. I think I need to […]
A song for your listening pleasure… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI&feature… That ol’ Cor Blimey crew is back together again at Core @ Nolias Gallery for a show entitled (A)Wake. (A)Wake was prompted by losses of loved ones by some of the artists involved. […]
Things have calmed down the last two weeks, I’ve managed to get into the studio a few times and actually have started making some new pieces! Nothing is finished yet, but at least I don’t feel so stagnant. My studio […]
As Memory Foam moves forward and I form ideas for Oasis including words and phrases that I could build on Oasis frames (see previous post DAD) I’ve been researching the types of messages most commonly written, often by the flower […]
Yesterday I visited Andre Stitt’s studio in Cardiff with MA and MFA candidates from CSAD. We talked about the role of the studio in art practice. During the tour, we discussed rituals associated with studio work. Sifting, sorting, prioritizing and […]
A New Studio I have taken another positive step towards rebuilding my practice. I have a new studio space! I am sharing a studio with Katie Goodwin, with whom I worked with successfully in the past during the MA. We […]
interesting artivcle about goth culture etc….. http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/music/2012/apr/26/goth-life-fields-nephilim
I haven’t updated this blog in a while due to the demise of a relationship, a blessing in disguise for both my personal and professional life. My posting abilities were also inhibited by a seriously hectic schedule. I threw myself […]
Cardiff goings on. Last night, was a very busy day for art in Wales. There was the opening of the solo show of Richard Cox work at Howard Gardens Gallery; The opening of The Institute of Critical Zoologists at Chapter […]
Exposed Materials and Processes in Art Practice: I love it when art-bloggers write in detail about their materials and methods. Very helpful, indeed. Stephen B. MacInnis from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island is very, very good at communicating regarding this aspect […]
