Sometimes, it dawns on you that a change has happened. This weekend has felt like that. It feels like a sudden change, but actually it has been gradual. Is there a more positive metaphor than “the straw that broke the […]
Perthshire Open Studios started yesterday. Visited two in Braco, Lys Hansen, an international artist and Clare Robinson a young textile artist who has re-located from Edinburgh to Perthshire and works for Liberty. And this is what always surprises me about […]
Ouvrir Venus, by Georges Didi-Huberman.Added To My Library by Dr.Raphael Cuir, Curator/Art historian/ Arts writer
5 – 27 May 2011 ‘Beyond These Walls’ was the first exhibition at Contemporary Art Space Chester and the second showing by Chester Artist Collective. http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/8448 I made one of my Landscape works, by applying oil paint directly on to […]
Blissful art retreat has left me peaceful and refreshed. Two weeks sleeping next to a beautiful beach with only the constant sound of the sea, plentiful sunshine and fresh ocean air. No phone signal, no internet, no text messages, no […]
The last few day have been spent in Groningen in Holland. As you come out of Groningen station you are instantly assailed by the strangest building – Groningen Museum. It was finished in 1994 with separate sections deliberately commissioned from […]
Friday 2 September – Opening night performance. My space was prepared with a projector inside the doorway beaming onto the back wall. The picture from the CCTV camera on the outside of the room appears on the brown kraft paper […]
Two of my paintings have been shortlisted for the Valeria Sykes Prize and will be in the New lights Exhibition in the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate! Just need to get them from London to Harrogate … Does anyone know of […]
Meeting tomorrow to discuss details of the kiln. Green Estate have not yet seen the new design for the kiln and we have not seen the progress made at the site, so its going to be exciting to see what’s […]
For the last few years, I have regularly logged onto A-N and read some excellent ongoing blogs written by both strangers and friends all tackling interesting subject matters and touching on aspects of what it means being an artist today. […]
Two days have passed since I last blogged – and in regarding an event that only lasts 3 days, that’s probably not enough. It has however been a really good 2 days and I think I want to record more […]
I’m a visual artist and writer who will be spending the next year studying an MA in Arts Management, Policy & Practice at the University of Manchester. Using my experiences over the next year as a catalyst, the main aim […]
Supersaurus, Swansea
17 June – 15 July 2011
