Better Conversation week 21st-27th Nov 2011 Thanks to the wonder that is Twitter I know its ‘Better Conversation’ week this week 21st-27th November 2011. And I got to thinking about what does it take for me to converse better? And […]
Back to Margate again today- to invigilate the gallery all day on my own. Twenty five visitors, ten of which said ‘What did this place used to be? I love the wall/floor/ tiles……’ Its called the Pie Factory – Doh! […]
Evenin’ all! It’s been a busy week. The research project is going ok, except I’m now having to scrat around for childhood stories from people… so if you have any, let me know!I have to present it to my peers […]
Recent cyanotype experiments on a larger scale (A2). Taking an unassuming detail from the Minories, a sunken gate lock as a focus, as it is a space of a very small scale, how would that situate in relation to the […]
I can’t wait to make a start on installing the work now, but I have to be patient, I need this time to make more pieces. I’ve got about twenty that have to be finished, I can’t put them up […]
Carting this flippin’ canvas round with me everywhere I go, just in case I get an hour or two here or there to work on it. First coat of paint now applied and dry, last worked on it last Saturday, […]
Platform have been working hard since I last posted about us. We now have a website, membership structure, exhibition plans and hopefully studio premises. Our new website is http://www.platformartsthelens.co.uk/ Where you can find out about becoming a member, our exhibition […]
Jack Hutchinson speaks to volunteers at Surface Gallery, an independent, artist-led gallery and studio complex in Nottingham. Its expansive programme involves exhibitions, talks and residencies.
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
29 September – 12 November 2011
EB&Flow Gallery, B&N Gallery, London
4 October – 5 November 2011
after a morning painting outsidde I realsied that I was recreating works gone by . I want to undrsatnd them better what made the intresting to me. Was it the subject, forms, colours or a other. In the afternnon I […]
OK, So the heater didn’t work in pablo’s room – it brightened up the room so much he didn’t sleep. He then locked himself in his room somehow – a scary moment – but we managed to talk him through […]
I got a great letter back from Julia from Platform China – she gathered notes from the seamstresses about the dinner event we held in Beijing. Yang Rui: As the participants are involved in the whole work, it reflects the […]
I got an email back from Julia from Platform China in Beijing, she sent notes from the girls that we worked with that night – the seamstresses – Inspired by the work of Lygia Clarke, and the positive social aspirations […]
Bye Ceri. So Ceri Hand Gallery is leaving Liverpool in early 2012 and setting up shop in London. This came as a big shock to many of us in Liverpool, although we could understand it perfectly at the same time. […]
New Painting! With little effort I could make it ‘better’ and ‘perfect’. However I think its strength lies in its rawness. I may change my mind. There seems to be an ever growing list of possible titles. Working title at […]
Comments now enabled! Thanks Franny. Dog walked; emails checked and no ‘revenue-generating’ work in so studio day here we come.
It has been a quiet time on the blog front for me recently. Apart from not feeling the urge to log on and blog, it is getting near the Christmas deadlines on my course. The pressure barometer has been cranked […]
we did the art trail. legacy here: http://belperarttrail2011.blogspot.com/ and we enjoyed it, and we said we’d have another go in 2012. we keep a blog of what we’re doing: http://belperarttrail2012.blogspot.com/ and we’re running a fun participatory activity we call the […]
the project is complete. finishing the activity report was rewarding and i was able to really reflect on what i had done and acheived and look towards future activities and other outings of the snee snaw.
I ended spending more time on the talk “German Romantics, Minimalism and the Sublime” than I had anticipated and continued to edit it until the Wednesday night before the talk. Some of the editing became quite vicious as a result […]
