Well it feels funny now the show is up and the preview is over my to-do list(with regard to the exhibition) complete and I feel disinclined to start another one just yet. The hanging was hard work it seemed to […]
When is a piece of work a piece of work? This is especially relevant in the case of this series of works i’ve developed in Schiedam (but also throughout much of my practice). When my work involves an intervention, where […]
FAQ I don’t live near anywhere near Leeds/Wakefield/Huddersfield/Manchester/Birmingham – can I do a course via distance learning? Yes. All 2011/12 courses are available via distance learning. I can’t make it to the enrollment exhibition – can I apply online? Yes. […]
ENROLLMENT UIK online enrollment is the same dates as the Next To Nothing enrollment: 15th September – 1st October 2011. Download the enrollment form: .doc bit.ly/UIKdoc .pdf bit.ly/UIKpdf and send a completed copy to: [email protected] Or copy & paste the […]
Many thanks to Charlotte Norwood for choosing The Collaborator as this month’s Choice Blog – I’m flattered and pleased! Flushed red cheeks are clearly the order of the day today: I have just come back from a meeting at the […]
Richard: Suggested title: New Works by Ross Hamilton Frew and Richard Taylor Storage vs production It has been over a week since we last touched this blog – in place of bad weather and what’s worse to come hurricane wise… […]
Whistle blower your table shine is mine In my mind’s eye I saw from below the coffee table again, its underside constructed for ultimate-fold and transportability. Atop this table, opposite from where I hid, stood a woman wrapped in a […]
I’ve sorted out some of what needs sorting out but for yet another day I have avoided art. I think I need to plan my days better or I will continue to fritter my time away.
I’d lost count of the amount of times I’d heard the opening words ‘You have the right to remain silent’… and yet, I couldn’t remember the whole statement exactly as it should be said. Why is that? I watch endless […]
I have become a blip addict ever since signing up a few weeks ago. It is an amazing photo-sharing site and the bit I like is the social networking which in this case really works maybe because it is linked […]
I should go to the sea more.
still from Nutcracking by Lumiere et Son.
Julia Wilkinson, ''Festival'', Acrylic on canvas, 2011. Photo: Julia Wilkinson.
Catherine Scriven, 'Green Smoke Rising', Digital print. Courtesy: www.catherinescriven.co.uk. Green Smoke Rising is a response to an ancient (850AD) Japanese Tanka poem evoking the transience of beauty but constancy in nature where nothing is lost only transformed into a new configuration.
Fiona Campbell, 'Cloudless Sulphur (detail)', steel, wire and found materials, 2011. Photo: Tim Young. Inspired by the form of a Cocoon of the Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly
When I start a new project, it is certain that I will encounter new problems that I could never have envisaged. ‘007 v John Ridley’ concentrating on and examination of my father and his dedication to his business career have […]
University of Incidental Knowledge are delighted to annouce the 2011/12 Course Programme. Courses 2011/12 * Diploma in Artwank * BA (Hons) Avant Garde * BA (Hons) Comedy * BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste * BA (Hons) Film * BA (Hons) […]
Diploma in Artwank 1 year part time Description: Go see some exhibitions, read some art magazines, flick through some glossy art publications. Photocopy and/or photograph and highlight any examples of overblown, pointless, dishonest, artwank prose. The stuff that rubs you […]
BA (Hons) Avant Garde 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops incidental knowledge at the highest level. Taking the basic interpretation of Avant-Garde to mean: unconventional, innovative, […]
BA (Hons) Comedy 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops incidental knowledge at the highest level. Unlike other courses, the title doesn’t refer to the subject to […]
BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste 1 year part time Description: I want you to work. Only through the application of thought and the process of creation can you absorb the essential information on the sly, incidentally and accidentally, that will […]
BA (Hons) Foreign Language 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops foreign language incidental knowledge at the highest level. Incidental Foreign Language is acquired not necessarily abroad […]