OMG May be OMFG, says it better! The blockage that is holding up this project does appear to easing and I have been told to expect a contract next week. I have also been asked to submit final designs to […]
Why is it when the work starts going well the personal life starts going wrong. After struggling to find inspiration for a few months, I recently got on a roll with lots of ideas and idea development going well. The […]
The last few days, with the enormous help from Bruce at Basement Arts projects Leeds, I have spent the bulk of my time trying to work out a plan of action. Last Friday, I received an email from the organisers […]
I’m suprised to see that it’s almost three weeks since I last visited my blog. I’ve been immersed in teaching prep rather than art work so now reflecting on where I was so that I can pick up and get […]
Editing my talk for the gallery tomorrow, I seem to have somehow broken iphoto. My head is full of Army Seafort specifications. I think I need some fresh air…… Dominique Rey
Next week! Andrew Bracey in discussion with Peter Ashton Jones, artist and co-founding editor of painting magazine Turps Banana Thursday October 27th 6.30-8pm Andrew will also be presenting work in progress at Standpoint Gallery over Thursday 27th and Friday 28th […]
I have decided enough is enough with living on a low income and I am thinking of returning to full time work. So unless I take up another residency…. which is really unlikely… I am calling an end to this […]
Today: experiments with tiny, tiny felted sheep and the realization there may be others who work like me what with all this layering and looking in and looking back and experimenting with scale
Mmm… convergence or divergence? a good prompt for a post, thank you David Riley for your comment. My painting activity at Angelika involves converging points. Elements coming in from different directions, both formally and from source. I’m letting them in […]
Rasmus Nilausen, The Florentine, oil on linen, 65x54cm, 2011.
Digital capabilities have revolutionised artists’ working practices, from transforming the kind of works they make to how they interact with each other and audiences.
On reading Mitra Memarzia’s report on diminishing resources in undergraduate courses (‘The future of art education’, a-n Magazine September 2011) I was moved to both endorse the findings and speculate further on the continuing erosion of specialist teacher training in art education.
I have been reading some interesting comments recently in your magazine about the issue of artists when they leave education and enter employment. I feel I would like to comment on this issue. As an arts graduate I am now […]
I have recently responded to a couple of exhibition opportunity announcements and followed them through – the most recent: Calling all artists for a group exhibition at The Brick Lane Gallery.
Through a letter published in the Sunday Telegraph, 2 October, a consortium of arts bodies including a-n called for inclusion of arts and culture in National Planning Policy Framework.
It’s sixteen years since the Disability Discrimination Act came into force; so are disabled artists more in the mainstream now, or have the goal posts just moved sideways asks Emma Geliot.
The continued squeeze on arts funding is throwing up some interesting solutions to supporting artists, whilst raising some serious debates about the future of the profession.
In October, Eden District Council announced a cut of 70% to Eden Arts by 2014.
Arts Council England and NESTA announced first grants in a major digital initiative, and Katriona Beales went to Apha-ville to glimpse the digital future.
Manchester-based artist Jacqueline Wylie is researching ways in which artists use social media.
