Page 1810 – a-n The Artists Information Company

Three more days to go before I depart for Helsinki and instead of packing the first thing I want to do on my day off is write my blog. Making a new post is giving me a space to structure […]

I think watching a re run of ‘A Grumpy Guide to Art’ last night has triggered my natural grumpiness of the whole art scene. Today’s gripe will be about artists ( whatever gender) who have partners in well paid jobs. […]

Over coffee this morning I’m intrigued by something I found in a book*. It talks of ‘Open Work’ and is all about work that is completed by the viewer. It gives as an example a piece of music (‘Third Sonata […]

New work on Axis front page today – ‘Box of Tricks’ http://www.axisweb.org/ If you go there take a closer look, it’s tiny

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Added To My Library by Lorna Robertson ,Artist

I’ve at last got my new pinboards up, which means I can get my accumulated research out of the carrier bags and up on the wall where I can gradually add to it and move it around as I see […]

Just helped a fly escape from the window. We were both having a miserable time with him thwacking himself against the glass. The first time I got him to fly out he bounced off the air and back into the […]

As promised, here’s a little more on rates of pay in the art writing world – as well as some notes on why I decided to start this blog. Honest About Freelancing was inspired by a frank email exchange I […]

We’ve been given the go-ahead to mount an exhibition of student drawings in the Medical School later in the year. This is going to call for a certain amount of long-distance organisation. First off, contact all participants to get permission […]

Sporting League: Game 28 There was nothing to separate Bayerns and Tranquilayers in a frankly predictable one – one draw…Universo looked to have shored up their recent defensive frailties with a three goals to nol away win over Yop Lane…The […]

I’m surrounded by bags sitting on the floor of a train to Cornwall for a week of camping. The firefighting is on hold for a bit and I’m hoping to find time to reflect on the past couple of months. […]

Two weeks behind in my Renaissance art history course-work, thanks to school summer holidays and sketchy childcare arrangements… nevertheless, I made this with the aid of my daughter. She very generously donated her little boy-doll standing in as Baby Jesus. […]