Off, off and away…. I fly out tomorrow to Tokyo. Early. There’s 10 of us going in total, me from Chelsea, 4 from Camberwell and 5 from Wimbledon. We’re a mix of disciplines – designer makers, fine artists, illustrators, graphic […]
Today Susan got naked for a mod rock cast to be made of her body. I wasn’t surprised because she’s the kind of art student that loves taking her clothes off. I thought in this photograph she looked a lot […]
A really lovely linkage has just happened. Former studio mate at Core Gallery, Mo Negm just commented on my post #5 about the This ‘Me’ of Mine blogsite, he said: “Interesting blogsite Jane, and an intricate subject matter – the […]
Working with Assistants: So, I’ve been increadibly lucky that I have had a number of lovely people and amazing artists who have decided that they would get something useful out of working (for free) as my assistant. I would never […]
Met an Arts Council person today. So incredibly nice! Not a scary person at all. Understood exactly what I was doing. Explained how much money I could have. Explained in detail how to get it. What could be more pleasant? […]
In the local paper they had an advert about a new art space in the town. It had secured Arts Council funding too. So I set about creating a proposal, using all the knowledge I’d gained at unversity to enable […]
So the Degree show is looming, and finally I have some plans. Last week I put forward my idea to the rest of my year group on my course. I explained how I want to design part of, if not […]
Soo tired. Dissertation writing is hard when you misplace the caffeine. :( I think I need to go on an adventure tomorrow lunchtime to find some. We have a contextual studies lesson tomorrow morning, but I do have an extra […]
And now it is time for my second blogging attempt. I shall start with where I am at the moment. It just so happens that I am about to commence construction for my final piece, the great plan that will […]
Examples of my work:
Current goings on in Cardiff, What a brilliant weekend its been, the weathers been something other than fierce mild, hurrah. To celebrate, I visited the Book Arts Fayre 6 at Ffotogallery, in Penarth, which along with the inquisitive Daniel Blaufuks […]
The pressure is beginning to mount now; I need to have one wax completed so it can start the journey to becoming a bronze. A decision has been reached that one piece I have been working for the last 2 […]
Come a little closer My work tends to be quite dramatic when viewed from a distance – maybe even a bit theatrical. I notice it draws people in, as they try to work out how I have done something such […]
Things are looking up. After our worry about not finding a space for our MA show – several options have now emerged. ‘Motorcade/Flashparade’ has now become available, as has ‘The Diving School’ So we have gone from having no space […]
Well, I got quite a lot done over the last few days. I wrote out my ideas for the exhibition at the new Library of Birmingham along with the elements that I would like the library folks to supply or […]
A very busy period of activity has ended. The comedy course took up 6 weeks of Monday nights, but also a lot of rehearsal and writing an rewriting of material. It has been a success though. We all had our […]
Introducing… Hello, we are the People of the Eye collective. We are a group of visual artists and sign poets who are gathered together to explore in various ways, through various media the nature of the visual in sign language […]
3 posts in 3 days… what can I say? I’ve had a thoughtful week and everyone else in the house is obsessed with football, and I have to avoid it somehow. It’s Monday morning and it seems appropriate to post […]
am puzzled that when it comes to open submissions for art exhibitions/competitions there seems to be a development that says you pay your money to submit, and because there is such a large volume of submissions we can’t get back […]
My starting point for last semester was somewhat confused. Firstly, I wasn’t sure what I was doing after the long summer break, and secondly, I found myself caught up in the symbolism of birds, a concept I struggled with in […]
Visiting Art Studios in Glasgow. An Intro: To blog or not to blog; I am posting this as my first entry, as an introduction to my path as a practising Artist…as it really illustrates my own personal journey in the […]
I have been so busy recently. I completed and sent back my student ambassador profile questionnaire last week and finished writing my review on Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World at Modern Art Oxford which can be found here: http://www.rovesandroams.com/2012/02/graham-sutherland-an-unfinished-world-at-modern-art-oxford/ My […]
Visiting Art Studios in Glasgow. October 20, 2007: “Room by room, picture by picture an image was painted in my mind. Some had larger spaces than others, some more organised spaces…others a collage of mess, spreading itself across the floor […]
Yay!! I think it has been quite a productive day. After three hours of discussion, photoshop mock ups, mood boards and general experiments this afternoon, our group seems to have decided on a cover for the catalogue :D We’ve also […]
Last Thursday evening the launch for ZeitgeistAP (ZAP) took place. ZAP is a new venture created by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley with the education of artists by artists at its core. It was a great night and it felt […]