7.10.20 – 7.25.00 My good mama, its hard to forget you. My dear mother. 7.25.00 – 7.41.22 I will reward you in the next life. 7.41.22 – 08.11.18 My dear mother. Mama. Let me call you mama, the final time […]
2827.mov 0.00.00 – 0.05.14 Please open your eyes and see 0.05.14 – 0.17.15 At this moment, all of your children come back and kneel here 0.17.15 – 0.31.14 Watching you, our heart is full of sadness. Watching your ghost leaving […]
The weather is amazing. Blue sky! oh blue sky! I haven’t seen you for so long – it feels so good to have you back. we walked down the street, and it seems to have affected everyone, more shouting, more […]
The jig is up. I have to write a paper. Among other things, it is time to decide what to call “the other“. How does one do that when… A viewer needs something to view and sometimes there is nothing […]
The video and the finished object for ‘stone in a sea of fog’ were united for the first time on Monday of this week. The push was to get photographs of the complete piece so that they could be sent […]
Folkestone Artists Open Studios and House will be open 10th & 11th December. Does anyone think one town can have too much arts & craft? Theres loads going on in folkestone at the mo, open house, art sale at the […]
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I’ve been avoiding installing Dreamweaver, because that means I will have to begin the website. But yesterday morning I made a start and took the disc out of the box. I haven’t used the programme for 18 months and not […]
It wasn’t as busy as I had hoped tonight, but there was a steady stream of people or rather a steady trickle of people. The Arena Artists were fantastic, they where there from begining to end, organised everything and served […]
Ali Gracie, 'Butterfly Dark', Digital Photography/ Photoshop, 2011. Photo: Ali Gracie. Courtesy: Ali Gracie.
Glynn Griffiths, 'Untitiled #1101 [The brutality of being]', Sculpture - wood and polypropylene rod, 2011. Photo: Glynn Griffiths. Brutality and the crudeness of destruction.
Carol Harvey, 'Trapped', Photography, 2011.
Charlotte Frost reports from the international conference of ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) in Istanbul.
Showing three pieces at Blackburne House, Liverpool from 5th to 30th December. I use my art practice to explore ideas about the continuous development of the soul. These three pieces express this concept using inspiration from maps, with contours, routes […]
ART POLITICS AND REVOLUTION: THE SHAMANIC PRACTICE OF DRAWING THE HORROR NAZIR TANBOULI, STUDIO 75 FROM 25 NOV – 25 DEC. the exhibition EYE CANDY by Egyptian born, London based Nazir Tanbouli presents very violent and disturbing themes, such as […]
Just starting this blog with a little trepidation as it will be concerned with the lead up to my final show. I will attempt to make it chatty and informative. It will be fed by my entries in the Critical […]
Tomorrow night we have the first pop up networking event in Stirling organised by Joe Hall, a young woman new to the area. She tells me it is already over-subscribed. We are delighted. For those of us who live in […]
The “Anatomy and Art” exhibition is now up, after considerable organisational problems. Some of the students had indeed disposed of their work (sounds better than “thrown away”, but that’s what they did). Another poor soul had had a disaster moving […]
Last week I went to Nottingham to attend the AIRInsights event at Surface gallery, hosted by Rosalind Davies and Helen Jones from Walsall, who curated my degree show back in 2008. Lots of insights into approaching curators, and developing relationships […]
I had been feeling a little down about my residency in the Cloakroom. I wasn’t sure why but I was feeling less and less like going there. My avoidance tactics where beginning to seem thinner and thinner. Waiting in for […]
Dreaming Spires Another visit to the Cloakroom today. The cress had rotted, to a sort of brown primeval soup and was beginning to smell. Annabel (on constant watch on my mental state) and I spent a little time scraping out […]