Starting to find time for the studio work again. I have been playing in the sketchbook and I have primed two new boards. They are half the size of the previous ones. I hope to be half as precious and […]
These words are written about ‘Working Title’, an exhibition and workshop at aspex gallery, Gunwharf. Clothes-less. There are obvious hints of ‘human-ness’ in much of Kate’s artworks, a fact I noticed after going through most of the images on her […]
It’s a lovely sunny morning and I am working outside. I bought some colourful A4 card from the supermarket and started marking up grids, and cutting out letters for my ‘Follow the bear’ sign. Anna translated this into Finnish which […]
I abandoned this blog in favour of the Butterfly Park one as that took up all of my time and was essentially my MA project so it seemed daft keeping two blogs. However on the slim chance that someone reads […]
Yesterday (Mon 22 Aug) marked the first day of the production period for Invisible City, an event that will be staged in Schiedam, NL on 2, 3 & 4th Sept 2011. I’m one of the artists who has been invited […]
Sorry to have been awol for a while. So busy writing my contextual report it’s untrue. However – it’s done!!! Can’t quite believe I’m saying that, published online through Blurb, people can buy a copy, not that anyone will want […]
Janey & Catriona: We were in AXO until 3am. We made short films out of stills. The cats brought in a dead bird to show us. Its intestines looked like flowers. I thought of Emma Hamilton. We toppled a sculpture […]
The work of Art in the mechanical reproduction, by W.Benjamin Added To My Library by Kathy Noble curator/TATE
More Musings – Bren Head Tuesday 23rd One of the nicest things about curating a show, is meeting the artists involved. Today I had the pleasure of meeting Bren Head who came to see the show without the bustle of […]
After dropping off my exhibits for the Angels of the North show at Greenbelt 2011 and having a great chat with Carla Moss and Andrew Shelton about ghosts in the curtains, the practicalities of hanging and whether anyone including ourselves […]
It’s horrible. I’ve moved my to-do list onto my phone, in a smug little app with tick boxes and urgency stars of different colours. I put my lists there because you can have multiple lists and multiple tasks, and add […]
Editing the videos from NYC has allowed me to lose myself in great memories… The visuals are ready, I just need to work on the audio. The video I uploaded to vimeo this evening sticks out a little from the […]
I’m going to try and sustain a blog over the whole course of a project… for the third time! Invisible City is an event taking place in Schiedam, NL 2-4 September 2011 and i’m involved. Claire Weetman, Invisible City- New […]
Arron Kuiper, Box 8, oil paint, aquagel, glass vitrine, 2011.
As UK’s universities continue their radical overhaul to deliver a more streamlined and affordable ‘service’, art education is facing up to the challenges this presents to the sector. Attending Cubitt’s July Festival of Blackboards, Mitra Memarzia observes that art students […]
New high profile museums and galleries have opened across the UK, but how can they best contribute to the local arts and culture, asks Emily Speed.
Organisations around the UK facing cuts or closure.
Led by curator Vicki Lewis and artist Katherine Clarke (muf), the We Are Artists, How Can We Help? action research project questions the presence of artists as a model in regeneration. What does the artist gain? Is there a benefit swap between the artist constituency and their neighbours?
New ways are needed to measure the types of value being delivered by small visual arts organisations, according to a new report looking at the role and value of the small-scale visual arts sector within the wider arts ecology.
