Being a recent graduate of Fine Art I am desperate to start my career as an Artist. Unfortunately these things do not always happen overnight so I have to take a ‘normal’ job so that I am able to pay […]
BILLBOARD DISPLAYED ON TRINITY BUILDING www.christinamitrentse.com EMBLEM-DECONSTRUCTED & DESTROYED: A HOMAGE TO JOHN LATHAM A public billboard commissioned by Trinity ∴ viewable 24/7. As part of Add To My Library pays tribute to John Latham’s book relief sculpture which penetrates […]
Trigger Happy A few weeks earlier I got my burstinng portfolio and went through every drawing and piece of paper in there and chucked a load in the recycling paper bank. I been sweeping my workshop floor and chucking out […]
AIR Communications Officer Jack Hutchinson heads to the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Istanbul to explain AIR’s latest collaborations and how they are impacting on the lives of artists.
Results of AIR and a-n’s largest ever artists’ survey. This document provides essential information both for artists actively lobbying for improvements in artists’ working conditions support for artists’ practice and professional development as well as for policy makers and funders […]
Gosh – another long night – Pablo has a cold that turns into a awful weeze and cough from around midnight to 4am. He didn’t have a temperature, but those nights are long – It sounded like he was having […]
17 January 1947: Operation Charlie One of the incidents that Dave Evans (the person we are investigating and collecting UFO information on behalf of) mentioned was Operation Charlie from 1947. My initial enquiries have located mentions of both the Chain […]
Eight hours before I left Canada for the UK I discovered I would have to cull and re-pack my significanly over-weight suitcase.* This, despite the fact that I had decided long before that books were not coming with me. I […]
A-N’s residencies toolkit is really useful. I’m using it as a checklist to draw up an outline for my planned upcoming residency. Although I’m not against creative, loose verbal agreements, I think it’ll be good to have a few stakes […]
Email of rejection from http://gli.tc/h/ still looking forward to seeing the show though!!! And finding an alt. home for 4thD Plinth. Poss. in London… First day of work @Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum tomorrow. And emailing Bernard up at […]
Thank you for your comments Richard, David and Sam. Yes, space = time! It was felt last year by tutors that 60% of the studio had been underused. This year Fine Art has lost some space to the Foundation course […]
Hello there everyone. Im the current Artist in Residence at the Bond Company in Digbeth, Birmingham.The residency is for 1 year from September 2011 through to September 2012′. I will live on site, working in my studio and in the […]
21st SeptemberI had a fantastic morning today. I rode my bike along the canal following through to Brindleyplace, home of the Ikon gallery, sealif centre and the NIA. It was an enjoyable ride, I didn’t measure gow many miles or […]
Sarah Jane Brown, 'Lost', Oil on canvas.
Claire Mc Dermott ARBS, 'Idenity AC', Idenity AC, 09.2011. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott. Mc Dermott developed her botanical drawings of Michaelmas into an object, by drawing it in mid air. This action gave a freedom to ?the drawn line? when botanical drawings do not. By simplifying the ideas, the need to conform in accuracy was lifted and the feeling of being trapped within a process or style was pushed aside.
James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, Farnham
7 October – 17 December 2011
Feeling exhausted as Pablo got a fever during the night and couldn’t sleep. He seems better today, but he will have a quiet day today – we got him a few kids DVD’s to keep him occupied. At the moment […]