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Whilst it is great to win a prize, when the dust settles and the cold light of day arrives, there is work to be done. It isn’t enough to just rely on a piece of work that has been successful […]

Ross: There is a sense of momentum around this project of late. With things slowly beginning to take shape, a picture is beginning to form as to what the a final outcome may be, and if in fact an exhibition […]

Discourses on Art, by Sir Joshua Reyonolds. Added To My Library by Tom Morton Curator/Art historian

Today we talked about funding. Had a meeting at Leasowe with the director, staff and outside interested parties to work out a funding strategy for a continuing residency programme at the centre. It’s essential that we get this absolutely spot […]

Just a quick one today with a couple of photos. I like working with these old clothes and threadbare household textiles. There is a feeling that they might fall apart in your hands as you stitch them. I’ve come to […]

Woke up this morning with a swollen ankle my poor leg cant take the mosi bites. We decided to go and check out some second hand stores in Joensuu looking for random stuff that might inspire and some blue cloth […]

Monday 22nd August – Post I – Musings on Understanding Third week of the show. Alone in the rear gallery space, I contemplate the works around me, and their ‘relationships’. The overt thematic is the reciprocal nature of artists, since, […]

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 […]