Monday 22nd August – Post 2 – Musings on Understanding: John Devane, Wendy Elia, Linda H O’Grady. Devane’s pieces contain contrasts and similarities, yet they have the look of a family, of a canon. For the artist, they are as […]
Sporting League: Game 34 Universo kept up their title challenge despite an early scare against relegation threatened Indentine. Universo boss: ‘Yeah it was close but we produced the goals when it mattered – so I can’t ask for much more. […]
I want to be back in the studio. I want to be ordering materials. I want to be making things. Having slept on them, and cogitated through a couple of days, I’m seriously excited about some of the new concepts. […]
GOOD TO BE HOME. On the train back from Edinburgh I took great care to restrain myself from just moving straight on to the next thing on the list. A list to end all lists has been accumulating in my […]
If the long school holidays do one thing for an artist who supplements their income by teaching, it’s that they give time for the play I mentioned in a previous post. You can carry one train of thought from one […]
Parse– JOHN BALDESSARI. Added To My Library by Thanos Stathopoulos Writer/Curator
Dead moths and petticoats in the crypt…. There was a feeling of something special happening in the crypt on Friday when artist Franny Swann moved her Moth Boxes into the space. From the moment I asked Franny to share the […]
Had a day off on saturday and visited a place called Koli. I imagined it to be a small town like Joensuu, although when we arrived it was very different. To get to the peak of Koli you have to […]
Bayerns continued their strong run in with a run of the mill victory over the tired legs of relegation threatened Metronova…Universo brought back their dynamic duo after their boss controversially rested them in the previous match…and he was proved correct […]
Richard: I am beginning to think of how work that I send up to Ross at Abandoned House relates more specifically to the work we’re planning for in Edinburgh at the end of October. I recall Ross’s highlights from a […]
Janey: When Catriona wrote “… I surrendered to an honest and uncomplicated relationship with the work, the collaboration of our three minds and most importantly, play.” >> I felt a really good CLICK. During my masters I wrote a lot […]
My moth boxes are gone – I took them down to St Mary in the Castle Crypt in Hastings yesterday and installed them alongside Cathryn Kemp’s residency work. It was the first time I had seen her installation other than […]
Janey: I want to call this Day 2 in AXO, however I’m not actually in AXO yet. I’m staying with friends, but they are away for the weekend, and I am sitting in their flat drinking coffee and soaking in […]
Statements….. I hate them! I have to write’ 150 words about a particular work and 150 words concerning my practice as an artist. How can I have just spent two hours writing, and rewriting the same thing over and over […]
By: Catriona As we all experience a day a little differently I thought I’d start my blogging with a quick round up of yesterday’s events from a different perspective. So…day two of the install (or maybe we should be describing […]
Paul Klee Vol.I the Thinking eye VolII The Nature of Nature. Added To My Library by Jonas Ranson Artist/printmaker
Bayerns served up a platter of three goals to keep their reluctant recipients Indentine inthe relegation zone. Bayerns boss: ‘I’m pleased with how our players have done thus far, but now we’ve entered the business end of the season we […]
NOTE TO SELF: Write down ideas as you have them. Too many of my best ideas arrive fully formed at very inconvenient moments when no sketchbook, paper or back of fag packet is available. Also at annoying times – in […]
Out of curiosity I visited the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. I haven’t been in years. It was the last day but was surprisingly calm. At first it all felt quite cosy (I think) as if I was within some kind […]
The brilliant http://www.marketproject.org.uk/ is holding a public debate Too many artists on 9th November. Here are my suggestions to get the ball rolling: The ‘panel’ (me) proposes an annual cull, by instigating a variety of systems in order to maximise […]
Context: Many have commented on time and place through writing and through artwork. Calvino wrote about objects invested with history and Bachelard wrote about spaces. When Bachelard talks of ‘The Poetics of Space’, he talks about poetic connotations that can […]