“Ever since Marcel Duchamp exhibited his “found object” Urinal almost a century ago, art’s relationship with utility has been brought into question. What would happen to its artistic identity if Urinal was taken from its gallery mounting, replaced in the […]
Watched an interesting DVD this week called The Joneses, directed by Derrick Borte, 2009 the premise is: A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they’re living there, they […]
I’ve been home from Schiedam for nearly two days and the momentum for writing the blog has slipped, so to come back to the things that I promised myself I’d write about (and I think that it is useful to […]
It’s great to chalk up some good news. Firstly, Sarah Key has been shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize http://www.threadneedleprize.com/ Secondly, I have been shortlisted for the Nottingham Open 2011 with four paintings. Also, My large drawing was bought on the […]
17th September – 4th December, various venues, Plymouth UK VIA presents a nomadic model of working as a curatorial framework. The project questions how artist-led practice can thrive in ‘in-between’ spaces, and subsist/grow alongside existing structures created by institution or […]
For the full time MA students it almost over; all that is left is to take down the work figure out how to take it home/ sell it/ store it and collect their results. I’m half way through and I […]
I’ve just reviewed and edited together some clips from one of my performances over the weekend – Interesting to see how it looks from the other side of the canvas… Performance drawing at Invisible City, Ruimte in Beweging, Schiedam, Netherlands, […]
A neglected blog sits in the corner of my room, glowering at me resentfully, as it has been for some months. Tonight I finally resolved to face it head-on, and wrote a respectabley sized post to update. Then I tried […]
In the second of two interviews between long term collaborators and bloggers Alice Bradshaw and Bob Milner, Bob interviews Alice about curating, labels, and keeping a space open for your practice.
