Bringing alive a now demolished but much loved dance hall in the north east town of Hartlepool is the impetus for this piece. Working with groups that cover the entire spectrum of age, I am making a video installation which […]
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
26 October 2011 – 22 January 2012
Following a public meeting held in Edinburgh last night, Richard Taylor reports back on how we need to act to stop a paid for Public Entertainment License coming into place in Scotland.
Fine Art BA(Hons) ‘Falmouth has a distinguished 40-year history in the education of Fine Art students. Throughout this period the Fine Art course has maintained an environment of creative diversity, enabling students’ personal vision and ambition to develop within critically […]
BA FINE ART
Glass and Ceramics BA Hons
I have a few long running projects on the go at the moment, and some pieces of work that are labour intensive, with a finish date well into the future. But sometimes, it’s nice to start and finish something in […]
The current website is a-n’s fourth. For historical interest I thought I’d show images of the previous three. But where can I find the images. The earliest versions were static html pages – not driven by a database and those […]
As one of the lucky recipients of an ‘Artists Bursary’ to attend the State of the Arts Conference 2012 I had applied precisely because the intentions of the conference seemed to epitomise my own concerns I went to the conference […]
We had an exhibition at the beginning of February for all second years. There was some really amazing work! It was so interesting to see what every one has done so far as don’t always find the time to look […]
Projection Platforms. It feels like I’ve been making them for the entirety of my practice, but its only now its become apparent that I make projection platforms, these images that for me, help deal with the problem of the eclecticism […]
Lots happening all of a sudden: Bunting Forever is getting big and I’ve been asked to register it as a Line the streets project for London 2012. http://www.dadonline.eu/node/332 Thanks to a professional press release and marketing document the project profile […]
It is Friday afternoon and I am wondering where the week went. It must be is a sign that I’m busy … Two weeks ago I wrote an email stepping down as project coordinator for Sandcastles in Greece. This week […]
I went to listen to artist Matt Stokes speak two Wednesdays ago at the Arnolfini, and came away really inspired! The inspiration has lingered all week and has fueled some new thinking. As a recent graduate, I also found it […]
Out of time and place… We left Heathrow early on the morning of the 29th Feb and arrived in Tokyo on the morning of the 1st – but if it was in the UK it would have been the middle […]
Wild Flowers I bought a few packets of wild flower seeds…..I thought I would plant them in the shape of those rings that someone on a motor bike had made. They had done this on one of the greens which […]
The dissertation is now ‘done and dusted’ and only needs to be bound. The the last element in this module is a presentation on the subject which will be given some time before Easter. Now working on the final show […]
Below is the link to my previous blog which today is joined with the birth of this one. http://www.omar-saif.blogspot.co.uk/
Shibuya and the Special Melon… Ya means valley according to our majestic Japanese CCW contact here Gen. Gen is a bit like the key to Pandora’s box. Not understanding any Japanese characters means that everything is unknowable. Although very pictorial […]
