So, two weeks into the job, one week of sheer meltdown during a heatwave with temperatures nearing 40 degrees. Now it’s more reasonable for early September I can at least think, if slowly. I have been back to the Giardini […]
‘Look at Jason Oddy – pinholes + mouth’ This is the suggestion form my mid-phase review on Monday. So of course I have done a web search and found these intriguing images of empty corridors, empty rooms and objects which […]
We’re delighted to say that artist Garreth Hughes will soon be on his way to Finland! He’s the first Top Floor artist to take part in the SamWest exchange between Top Floor Studios at Spike and Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki. We […]
Saturday 3 September Today Invisible City is open during the day. 12.00 – 18.00. Today I will work on the rice paper screens that I prepared. They fit into the doorway, and are back projected. I will be inside the […]
21 August 2011 I was involved in a one-night-only exhibition at Telford’s Warehouse in Chester. http://www.telfordswarehousechester.com/ Including an open mic night, musical and performance pieces, the whole thing was a bit performing artsy. It added a different context for my […]
I’m very very busy at the moment; a busy-ness that seems to primarily consist of impotent, stress-driven flailing & stasis. On Saturday afternoon I took some time off & went to see some art. I feel like I’ve really neglected […]
Collaborations, residencies and exhibiting overseas…these are the things I’ve been trying to pull together over the last few months. It’s a mammoth project , which has so many interlocking aspects, that sometimes it becomes quite overwhelming. I only hint at […]
The process for producing an artist’s newspaper is not proving straightforward. The quote from the printer is way out of our tiny budget, even as a very thin, slimline newspaper. So I’m sitting on the floor amongst a pile of […]
PUBLICATION -Add To My Library Vol.II Designed by Aeon Rose This publication for the project was produced in a limited edition of 200 copies and distributed to Art Libraries and the host of international arts, cultural and academic figures who […]
Le Chéile at Oriel Ynys Môn Our next exhibition opens on Saturday, 24th. September in the main gallery at Oriel Ynys Môn, Llangefni, Anglesey. The gallery is holding a “Meet and Greet” between 12midday and 2p.m. on the Saturday – […]
Preparing for ‘PLAY NICE, NOW!’ show at Nolias Gallery. The exhibition was planned for mid- to late September, at Core Gallery, but we’ve moved it to the more centrally located Nolias and pushed it back to the first week of […]
Hania Stella-Sawicka. Courtesy: the artist.
Sophie Cullinan, 'Blues 2', Interactive Sculpture, 2011. Courtesy: Sophie Cullinan.
Bill Jackson, 'Corset', Photograph, August 2011. Photo: Bill Jackcson. Courtesy: Troika Editions. from the series RELICS
Venetia Norris, 'Ink Drawing Stock 1 (image courtesy of the artist)', Ink & paint on Sanderson Paper (38 x 56cm), 2011.
'Paul Fennell in his studio'.
Nicola Troll, 'Rising from the Flames', Etching.