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Ed Pien Ed Pien is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. He has been drawing for nearly 30 years. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, he immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eleven. He holds a Master of […]

A brief rude awakening for my Group Therapy blog, on what is (I had not realised), its two year anniversary. I’ve not been positing here because I’m writing reams in other places. But the subject matter that Group Therapy is […]

Siobhain Moakes Siobhain’s current work concerns the adaptation of the visual field of the viewer to the received image. She has had many difficulties with her eyesight over the last few years and this has stimulated an interest in conveying […]

A bit of harking back…. Franny’s words that make me go aha! Include: Mantra Security blanket Mirror the past Found and made Memories Repetitiveness Authenticity Struggle between control and letting go…. Julie’s words that make me go hmmmm! Include: Landscape […]

Shortlisted for Nesta but not through to selection. Still, shortlisted is good. Had a couple of hours in the studio again this afternoon and finished this piece. Title not yet decided upon.

with just 3 solid weeks left until studio spaces get taken down, and exhihition spaces start getting built, you can feel the panic!!! I have nailed my timings for exposing and developing my photo-etching plates. All i have to focus […]

Venice It is a strange feeling to be in Venice when the Biennale is not on, all my previous visits were in conjunction with my visits to the oldest established art festival La Biennale di Venzia. I have thought April […]

Further updates on upstairs studio plans, some people have been moved around to better occupy the space and to form a more coherent display of works.

Spent yesterday afternoon painting my light box and plinths. Tried out putting foil round the interior of the light box which made it brighter but also discovered that there was an element of uplighting which will light the prints. However […]

Stuart John Hine Stuart has worked within the area of community arts for the past ten years. Currently his practice lends itself towards creating contextual visual art for the gallery space. Taking his experiences as a youth and community arts […]

Decision-time: My art-life needs to change. Or should I say evolve? Have been thinking hard these last few months about what I can do and how I can do it. The thing is, I’ve got M.E. and it affects every […]

I’ve just had some prints delivered for work at Southams Cardall Collection; I’m really pleased with them and can’t wait to see them installed! Unfortunatly I have to wait at least 2 weeks before I get to see this due […]

Trying out different Photoshop layers, colours and patterns. I really like the coloured versions of the image but it’s hard not to go overboard with the colour – maybe subtlety is the best option? I think the rich colours add […]

A couple more Photoshop tryouts…

C O – E V O L U T I O N T H E O R Y & P R A C T I C E I am an east coast Canadian currently on sabbatical in the United Kingdom […]

It’s been a little while since my last post and that’s mainly because I contravened my rule of not doing any unrelated performances. And so, last night I found myself interpreting four performance scores from 1970 in a cold warehouse […]

questions seed questions crop questions questionable relationships reading↔writing writer↔reading reader↔writing writer↔reader writing↔sounding sound↔read reading↔sounding h’m… What colour are your eyes? what colour watches my thoughtfollowing linear left to regimented right jump down hopskip down to the last letterz [start, return […]

Blog posts for me are a bit like approaching revising for GCSEs ( the memory is etched on my brain), the longer you leave it between sessions the more paralysed you feel at restarting again. Once the post in January […]

The ‘Official’ Open day has been and gone now. So though we’ve been open 3 weeks, its official and now hopefully, maybe people will start hearing about us and popping by. Harriet Harman MP and Shadow secretary for Culture was […]

Tracie Shaylor Tracie Shaylor’s practice shows an awareness of trajectories within modern art history and an understanding of where the individual’s practice can situate within that, whilst still finding a form of expression that was not imitative. There is a […]