I’ve just finished reading Edward de Bono’s book on the ideas or language, thinking, design and perception. It has taken me some time to get through it. In the process I have broken my washing machine and been to visit […]
BA Honours Degree in Fine Art, combining practical coursework and Fine Art history
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
17 March – 8 July 2012
Spike Island, Bristol
21 January – 25 March 2012
Artist, horticulturist and a-n Communications and partnerships team member Maggie Tran sowed the seeds of her practice through volunteering and event programming. As working life flourishes she takes us to the tip of her roots to tell the tale.
Kingsgate Gallery, London
15 – 25 March 2012
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
10 February – 7 April 2012
Peter Martin, Sheffield-based artist, and curator of the graduate show ‘Repercussions’ at The Old Market Gallery in Rotherham, talks to Richard Taylor about pulling together exhibitors from across the UK and producing a show representative of both physical and virtual research into 2011 degree shows.
The second sawdust firing was better…the mixture of sawdust and wood shavings meant there was more air and the addition of some wax meant it fired up well. There was a lot of flame and then smoke. 24 hours later […]
The Stone Space is a lovely space right next to Leytonstone Library. Exhibition opens this Thursday and ends on 15 April.
Alice Thatcher interview – Use five words to describe your work DelicatePaper-like3-dimensionalContemporaryAngular – What makes your work different from anyone elses? Even though all of my recent paper-crane pieces are made in the same way, each piece is unique to […]
I am back from Germany after having done the Cologne shows. I never realised just how important the timing with the subtitles is. We changed it by slowing down the piece and this made the whole performance very different. Rather […]
Recent Combinations
TRADING STATION: Day 2 Today I met Nancy Atakan for the first time. She has been a great host today, sharing breakfast with me, showing me around Istanbul and taking me to 5533, the art centre that she runs with […]
Now this is something I really am less confident about. I’ve got this proposal I’ve written. It’s sat waiting for me to just attach it to an email and send it off. The deadline looms, but I’m convinced if I […]
ok this is speedy post. boys are in the garden playing… i think I have about three minutes before they try to kill each other again and I am back in mediationmummy mode. Got some sounds working today… am going […]
Halewood On the Saturday of our Liverpool trip we went off in different directions again. I had originally intended to cycle to Halewood to look at the car plant there, but instead after Friday’s cycle and given the building i […]
Finished rebuilding the framework into seven rigid modular sections that can be handled and moved easily. This means I can load and unload the van myself without having to rely on a helper, and I can shuffle them around to […]
Sorry to have been lax in writing my blog. Ridiculously busy with 5 part time jobs. 1. Mum to 2 (hardest work) 2. Activity Plan Manager (my paid day job) 3. Lecturer (filling in on some sessions on my old […]
I made 25 so far, and I noticed that I have to keep focused on the throwing of each one , not to rush into increasing the number. In the last batch a few were a bit uneven and may […]
