Yesterday went to set up an exhibition in The Willow Gallery, Oswestry. It went well the group exhibition looks great. I can’t go to PV as I am working, I am finding a bit difficult at the moment to fit […]
Richard: We have reached a point where actual physical exhibition is in fact to be reality. After popping down to meet Ross at Superclub in Edinburgh (and battling through the festival crowds on The Royal Mile), and after attempting to […]
I will write, it may be nothing but I must write or i will not exist fully. I am making and to write whilst making confuses me. When I think about making it runs like a film in my mind […]
Thank you to Franny Swann for the very encouraging comments about my drawings and beautiful dead things. It’s really great that she can see pieces emerging A concern with my work has always been a perceived dislocation between my thoughts […]
Having those visitors travel across to see my work on Monday had quite a big impact on me. I know it sounds silly, after all it was only two people – but the fact that they travelled 13 miles on […]
the response from the exhibition submission was: no. … “We received a high level of interest in this and a large number of proposals. Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate your work in the exhibition as we do not feel […]
Not a very arty day today. I have been preparing for a telephone interview and could only really put my mind to this. The job is for a Visual Assistant at Debenhams and I did some research on their website. […]
We have some exciting news! Oksasenkatu, the artists group that Sam West met in Helsinki are offering a studio holder from Top Floor a free residency space between the dates of 8th – 23rd September. The residency space is based […]
So I’ve not really put much up about me for a while. I’m currently reading Danchev’s 100 Artists’ Manifestoes. In total honesty what I’ve read so far has been interesting but not amazing. The manifestoes are solid documents but the […]
Vitamin D New Perspectives in Drawing. Added by Naomi Murtagh gallery director/ Art Work Space-The Hempel Hotel
THESE ARE NOT POEMS is installed! And the vinyl lettering arrived after all. Here are my five completed “shelf poems”. It’s a brief show – closes again on the 19th – but do come and have a look if you’re […]
Marina Velez Vago, photograph, 2011.
Danny Howes, 'Rain Soaked Wheat (Norfolk)', Oil on Canvas, 2011. Courtesy: Reuben Colley Fine Arts.
Hayley Lock, 'Lecture 6. Crystal Quarrels: If foot or eye offend you', Digitally manipulated print on photo rag, gems, glitter and chain, 2011. Photo: Hayley Lock. Courtesy: Brantwood House, Cumbria. Imagined portraits and objects inspired by the people surrounding John Ruskin and selected writings.