I have looked at my designs for this series of mosaics today. I have to modify the lettering which I will start tommorrow. I am looking at them and thinking they will challange me big time. It’s so easy uploading […]
Richard Taylor, online editor of a-n’s Students community and Degrees unedited, maps his journey over four years and shares insights from one invigilator’s chair to the next.
Since graduating from Leeds University in 2007 Joe Simpson has developed his craft as a painter blending his practice with commissions and more personal projects. With his show ‘Musician Portraits’ open in London, and his portait of Maxi Jazz in the BP Portrait Award 2011, he takes time out to fill us in on his career so far.
I am at the point with my dissertation research (working title: The nature and representation of the sublime) where ideas are starting to gel. It is a pleasant point, where half-formed ideas, associations etc. are swimming around in the head […]
Wiriting proposals is occupying all of my time. Has to be done because paid work must be found. There seem to be a lot of suitable projects around at the moment, but all with short deadlines. Giving them all a […]
creative conversations episode 3 goes live I conclude the conversation I had with Julie Penfold at PVA mediaLab. We briefly discuss the shock of PVA losing their Arts Council funding and that they are fundamental to future developments that involve […]
Almost there now! yep I have completed 28 hours of my 30 hours of blind drawings, so thought I would give a quick update of how things have been going with a few select pictures. Sometimes I have found it […]
So now it is only a day till the first performance and I am heading over to the Oval house with the first of my props when I finish this blog. This morning I remembered (a bit too late) to […]
Reflecting over the past year or so – things are really picking up. Hooray! Two weeks ago I installed another private courtyard garden commission – relating to the landscape and beautiful setting of the coastal village of Robin Hoods Bay […]
We gave our talk at Aid and Abet on Saturday. It was interesting to present the very beginnings of our respective research interests. We presented our talk in a small room, a constructed space within the wider space which is […]
woohoo I have finished my 30 hours of blind drawings. I have to stay it is quite a relief, although I do have a slight sense of achievement as well! I do think though that these last drawings are the […]
Well, I think we have made a decision to go through a visa service for our visa. This will last another 30 days, and then we will have to do it again in Chongqing. However, they are apparently less stringent […]
I have gutted the walls of the hot pink war room after two frustrating days trying to identify a debate central to what I am doing. I have not been following the work. I have wasted valuable time attempting to […]
So this is a little funny for me to write/you to read as my second blog entry on my laptop, which has decided not to work since Thursday. Lots has happened since I last wrote my last blog entry, but […]
Today, we sent out details about ‘Supermarket’ to artists who we’ve either worked with before, or who’s work we like – asking if they would like to participate. This is going to be quite hard, as we can only realistically […]
