I’ve been in Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum constantly for a few weeks now; working on the install of Henry Moore in the Art Councl Collection. It looks good and has been increadbly popular over the past few days […]
Sleeping ladybirds are snuggled in the small spaces made by the burnt wood as it has split in the burning process. I am working gently around them so they are not disturbed. Possibly they have spent the winter nestled there. […]
Last time I visited here I was in the waiting place, and now, I realised, I feel like George in George’s Marvelous Medicine. The pots are simmering nicely and the concoctions I’m working on are alluring and treacle like; with […]
I started off today trying to remember to remember to plan… which went quite well for a little while. The trouble is when things aren’t quite working, it is very hard to stick to what you are supposed to be […]
knock knock, open wide, see what’s on the other side knock knock and more come with me through the magic door… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpRD_il9s8 the artist is not an individual the artist belongs to art art belongs to the public collectors and […]
+ Journey Through The Light + Hungate Medieval Art, Princes Street, Norwich NR3 1AE Private View: Thursday 15th March 6.00pm—8.00pm Exhibition dates: 16 March to 15 July 2012 Exhibition opening hours: Saturday 10.00am – 4.00pm Sunday 2.00pm – 4.00pm Admission […]
+ JOURNEYS + THROUGH + THE + LIGHT + Hungate Medieval Art in association with The School of World Art and Museology at the University of East Anglia is seeking Stewarding and Events Volunteers for Journeys Through The Light, an […]
Performance sketch for Glasgow International 2012 – Whistleblower your table shine is mine: Seduce and destroy. Swan-like I am hunched over black mass, caressing its uneven contours, coveting its penetrating beauty, as I whisper my fantasies of masculinity into […]
People of the Eye are a newly forming collective of (British) sign language poets and visual artists, working together. Each poet has created and performed a poem,to which an artist is asked to creatively respond. The insights of the artists […]
An insight into my creative practice in the build up to the final degree show at Oxford Brookes University. Through the investigation of embroidery, I am attempting to capture notions of the sublime through domestic stitch using imagery from the […]
What does it mean to be an “Emerging” Artist…what is it we’re emerging from – the womb of creativity? It’s something I’ve grappled with whilst trying to exhibit, and to keep painting. As a “self-taught” artist, another non-descript term, I’ve […]
Museum Studies
Vilma Gold, London
12 January – 19 February 2012
We catch up with Beth Webster, in her final year of her Fine Art degree at Lincoln University, and talk about the concept of beauty, histories of found-objects in art and the ‘spin’ of self in one’s practice.
The Condottieri As the renaissence scholars amongst you will know the Condottieri were mercenary soldiers contracted and paid to fight for the Papacy or their Italian City State employers; Florence, Vience etc. Freelance Professional Soldiers. We encountered exactly that on […]
Music for winding down and pondering on a Sunday afternoon… Elbow: The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver World Party: Santa Barbara Villagers: I Saw the Dead Nick Drake: Man in a Shed Elbow: Scattered Black and Whites Miserable Rich: […]
