BA (hons) Fine Art Painting. About 12 people in my department, our Degree show will be in June. Traditionally the students exhibit their work in their own departments but this year it might be mixed up a bit.
Chair of AIR Sally Sheinman’s intro speech from OpenAIR: Effecting Change.
I received an artists’ bursary from Arts Council England through application to attend the State of the Arts 2012: Artists shaping the world conference at The Lowry in Salford on Tuesday 14 February 2012. Arts Council England provided evaluation forms […]
Welcome to Walsall Stepping out of the train station I see a sign for New Art Gallery Walsall. The gallery is really close by and it is an impressive modern design. In the ground floor window looking onto the street […]
The week hasn’t exactly gone the way I’d planned it. But seeing as I didn’t actually plan it, I can’t really complain. I did tackle most of the tasks on my list, and some I only tickled, apart from that […]
Once a Factory now a Hotel I arrived a bit early although it gave me time to write up my blog. The pub interiors have a mock period look and felt warm and cosy wth the open fire alight. Factory […]
I thought I should write a more upbeat assessment of sota12 – only because reading yesterday’s post really does reflect the fact that I was really tired after it. Sore feet throughout the day really didn’t help. So, I really […]
Since starting this heretofore empty blog, I have been brainstorming with a colleague from our Byam Shaw days to come up with a viable proposal to fund the fabrication of a monumental sculpture for indoor or outdoor, temporary or permanent […]
Caroline Fisher gave a good talk last night – concise, clear, focussed and full of interesting information about the curatorial process within the High Society show at the Wellcome Collection. I think audience members also found it fascinating to hear […]
In addition to the publication adventures mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been helping other artist friends with their projects, in return for help they’ve generously given to my projects in the past, and also because it’s just fun and […]
Small scale paintings on board dipicting objects in direct relation to eachother, or isolated.
Diptych painting, dipicting a whole range of objects, symbols and items.
Yayy!! It’s finally finished! After copious amounts of glue gun, the remnants of a tatty book (it was otherwise going to be pulped so i only feel slightly bad about cutting it up) and many hours of slicing, sticking and […]
Tonight I am mostly planning to sort out the gigantic pile of receipts and papers l have been trying to ignore for the past month whilst having fun with socks. I know that there are seveal bills in there somewhere […]
Monday 13 February 2012: Pre-conference events I was really pleased to have been awarded an artists’ bursary to enable me to attend the SOTA12 conference this year as last year I couldn’t attend due to the ticket price. I did […]
Tuesday 14 February 2012: SOTA12 The film What Matters, which artists’ bursary recipients had already previewed the night before, was probably the highlight of the first session in the Lyric Theatre of the grand setting of The Lowry. Kirsty Wark […]
The Arlene Phillips interview was the low point of the day. Why Arlene Phillips?? Hasn’t she got enough airtime? 30 minutes dedicated to her interview was excessive in balance with the rest of the day. Perhaps it was fatigue of […]
This article in the New Statesman sums up sota12 pretty well: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital… The networking was good; the debates less so. What weren’t they saying about the cuts to come? Having picked out my highlights as Kirsty Ware and David Edgar, […]
cosmic travels at pure evil gallery We leave ordinary life outside as we enter Pure Evil gallery for the DJ Food exhibition on this fine Thursday evening in an increasingly cold and miserable London. DJ Food’s The Search Engine has […]
Money. If I want to get my shed out there in the world, fill it with music and loveliness, and give people a good time, it costs me. A van with a man, volunteers to lug it about and help […]
A crucial radiator has broken. It’s cold. Today I did not work on Sunday’s talk. I interviewed florists. Florists shouldn’t officially appear on this blog, they’re part of a separate project. But I can’t help it. I’m making no attempt […]
