
Cupar Arts Festival 2011
Various venues, Cupar
8 – 18 October 2011
Various venues, Cupar
8 – 18 October 2011
I.B.Tauris, London
1 – 3 February 2012
At the moment I am going through two difficult tasks. Firstly, finding a space for my degree show. i am in a group with around 15 others and trying to find a venue in our price range is proving difficult. […]
Journalist friends on the local paper tell me that a press release for my May exhibition needs to be in three months before the event if I am going to have any chance of getting publicity. Evidently they work that […]
Organisation for the fundraising for the MA final show is really getting underway now. I have now started a blog dedicated to the fundraising exhibition:http://sixbyfourexhibition.blogspot.com/ When I (hopefully) start recieving pieces I will upload onto the blog, as well as […]
Day 6 and things are still gathering momentum. I’ve had workshop space offered to me, request to give artist talks, empty shop space offered, potential for other empty shops, offer of funding from the council, support from the local college, […]
Looking out of the window in despair. If the snow continues like this I won’t be able to get my work to KINETICA.
So, lately I have been thinking a lot about process in regards to my practice. In August of last year, artists Christine Sullivan and Rob Flint did a residency at Motorcade/Flashparade and gave an artist’s talk for the Spike Associates. […]
Background It has been a golf course since 1895, that 116-7 years old! Outline planning permission seems to granted for a 90 bed hotel, but the rest of the development plans seem less advanced. So it will be interesting too […]
The object of chess is to stay three steps ahead, a strategy also employed by businesses who use chess tactics to ‘ thrive in the face of incalculable complexities and unexpected change’. It struck me today how invaluable these tactics […]
This week I’m having a break from my conversations to bring you a recording I made last year of the sound installation ‘Impossible Architexture’. This works was made by young people from Portland Rocks aided by local artists ivon oates […]
I have been in a bit of a bubble. I’ve been ill on and off since Christmas with bronchitis and I’m on my 3rd dose of antibiotics. The case is also consuming a lot of headspace. There is some good […]
I was having trouble with the projectors this morning and stood there for a minute wondering what on earth I was doing, and whether it was actually all nonsense after all. Sometimes I spend too long fixed on the technicalities […]
Keeping track of my experiences in the biggest city in the world, during a workshop and residency at Tokyo Wonder Site. Made possible by CCW (Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon) through funding from the British Council (PMI2). 1st March – 30th […]
With this blog I intend document my search in perfecting a teapot and finding “my” teapot style.
Artists talking blogger Kate Murdoch had a previous career in Social Services before becoming an artist. But rather than take the ‘safe’ path through art education she decided to go it alone. In this interview she talks to Andrew Bryant, editor of Artists talking, about this and other issues.
Payne Shurvell, London
27 January – 3 March 2012