Becky Hunter is a freelance art writer whose blogs demistify, with honesty and intelligence, the processes of making art, writing about art, and finding a place in the wider world of art. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about criticality and affect, the prickly subject of money, and why we need idealists.
I love it. When something I am thinking about, usually following something I have read but can’t really pin down in my own terms, happens in front of me. Twice. A few weeks ago when I was wading around in […]
So I need to figure out how and when I am going to film this video piece. i keep going on about it expcting it to happen, when it needs to be planned. My tutor told me thats one of […]
The children’s first day back to school_ Back home_ I’m picking left over bits from a christmas cracker, finding appropriate space for the new toys, other than the middle of the kitchen floor or the overcrowded breakfast bar. Still looking […]
Here’s another experiment with the new studio setup. Court markings.
In Certain Places January 2012 Field Research leading to Collating and Editing Today there is rain, gales and weather warnings in the north west of England; the sky is dark before I even wake up. In this project I will […]
Not much to say today, just a load of photos. Comments welcome as always. I’m exhausted from getting all this together, hung and plugged in, forms filled and handed in.
…and a few more photos…
…and some more… they’re looking a bit dull here… sorry… something’s happened to them on the way somehow. I’ll mess about a bit, or take some more before I take them down next Wednesday.
Organised Yesterday was a day fully committed to becoming organised. Planning and sorting through a backlog of projects, I’ve whittled them down to three projects to work on at a time. 1/ ATM Family Portraits 2/ Shadow Portraits 3/ Sculptural […]
Sporting League: Game 29 Bayerns put three goals past seventeenth placed Metronova without reply. Pundit L: ‘I’ve never understood why Metro never seem to get it together. It’s a great set up over there, a fantastic city, but the football […]
As befitting of the New Year, various blog posts have highlighted artists’personal successes and failures of 2011 and looked to forthcoming shows in 2012. Rather than do this, I want to quickly put the spotlight on the organisations that I […]
Sickener, just discovered the worlds loingest scarf is 33 miles long…thats gonna take some beating, so…. on second thoughts then, i think a colour,(blue/white) to represent each year since the strart of the guild will be a good move. Waiting […]
I lived in London for seven years. I moved down there to study Fine Art, and went on to discover a passion for writing. By the end of my Masters, I found myself in a bit of a black hole. […]
This blog documents the development of a project by Lisa Wigham, which has been commissioned by In Certain Places. Lisa is one of five artists selected to create new artworks in response to the city of Preston, which will be […]
Arts Council England have today announced the appointment of Simon Mellor as the organisation’s new Executive Director, Arts.
During his final year of Fine Art at Coleg Menai, Maurice Lock fills us in on the sublime, its theatrical placing in his practice, and the use of materials as variants in finding and staging the artist’s answer.
16 November – 21 December 2011
In 2012 I will be Artist in Residence for 8 months at the Muse@269 Portobello Road, London. http://www.themuseat269.com/
Fine Art, specialising in Printmaking
Sheffield takes its name from the River Sheaf, which can be traced back to the Old English word shed; as in water shed. Of course watershed also alludes to the evening airtime of adult-content T.V in Britain. I’d like to […]
A blog detailng the transition from the ‘inside world’ of university to the outside world.
This blog documents the development of The Gates of Paradise, a project by Collaborative Space artists Jeni McConnell and Hannah Elizabeth Allan, commissioned by In Certain Places. They are two of five artists selected to create new artworks in response […]
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