It is amazing that my degree course seems to have disappeared without a trace. The authority that converts (‘translates’?) foreign qualifications to ones that Swedish institutions (and employers) recognises is having a hard time with my Art & Social Context […]
Crocuses (or is it Croci?) in a Berlin cemetry..
a peaceful place for a chair in the sun, It was when I found this that I decided to draw outside again..
Victoria Redgrave – Installation Life isn’t always what we want it to be, it has its up’s and down’s. Society consists of all kinds of people and backgrounds in every imaginable situation. We can become immune to the issues that […]
Jacqui Thomson – Textiles I am a textile artist who uses embroidery and the art of the stitch to explore feminist themes, ideals and the everyday lives of women. Women have always stitched, be it purely for pleasure or out […]
My current work is about the inability to define, to stereotype, to group and to mark. It is about the challenges faced by a generation immersed in a virtual reality that consequentially affects the harsh reality of the world beyond […]
Most of my work has been about the definition of art, truth and authenticity, why we are artists and why we choose to create. What happens if you give an artist a pencil, pen, tube of paint or a video […]
First post, Friday 27th April. Well, the cheque from ACE dropped onto the mat a day or two ago, so this seems like a good time to start. Ok. This project is to develop a piece I made last year […]
Today I have been trying to get the last few bits and pieces ready for workshops over the next couple of weeks. Within a restricted amount of workshop time, there is always the practical problem of how long things take […]
A blog by John Boursnell, reporting on, or at least thinking out loud about, the project 5 actions / 5 texts / 5 songs – a live art piece that uses repeated actions, ball-bearing dropping, cassette looping and singing to […]
Shisha, the Manchester-based agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts has closed.
An initiative by leading artists’ organisations aims to improve artists’ access to funding for their practice.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
In July 2010 the Rural Cultural Forum (RCF) produced a report, Creative Rural Communities (CRC), that sets out why a Rural Cultural Strategy (RCS) is needed and the form it might take.
Twelve visual arts organisations in the South West have recently taken part in an audience benchmarking project delivered by Audiences South West in partnership with Turning Point South West.
Kirstie Bevan on Neil Armstrong
Masa Kepic helped instigate a-n’s first live Twitter debate, here she gives an overview of the issues raised.
Jack Hutchinson gets to grips with the latest digital networking tool and asks: how and why should artists be using it?
Flow is a tidemill, a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel and houses a range of musical machinery that responds to the river. It is one of the twelve Artists taking the lead’ commissions to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. ~Flow is the brainchild of the artist group Owl Project and producer Ed Carter: To bring their fantastical idea to life required the skills and expertise of a diverse range of professionals, including Nicky Kirk, a chartered architect; Amble Boat Company; and David Willcox, a waterwheel designer. Here David, Ed and Owl Project talk about their experience.
Annie Carpenter, Defying Entropy Attempt #1, sculpture, 2011.
