Sunday 26th June 2011 I have been a little under the weather again today, but I have been pushing on as I have asked to start installing the show tomorrow, as I do not want to leave it until the […]
Monday 27th June 2011 (apologies for the lateness, our internet has been down) Well we managed to install the exhibition today, with the help of YanYan, two students from SFAI on summer leave, Li Cao, YanYan’s housekeeper and a Ban […]
Project up at VARC was great – I love really intense working sessions, partly I think, because you can really feel a sense of achievement by getting a lot of work done, something which often seems remote possibilty most of […]
The behaviour extracted from everyday living and restored in the choreography of Pina Bausch is minute and particular. A gesture as slight as the twitch of a fingertip becomes a brittle motif available to repeat schematically yet barely stylized if […]
After the assessment and the Pecha Kucha presentations that a number of us did recently I have been reflecting on where my practice is and what form my MA show could take. Up until now, my interests, at least within […]
It has been a fantastic opening. I was overwhelmed by the amount of people who came, almost every person I have visited in Chongqing so far, also a few people from outside the city. I also gave a talk which […]
In aid of ideas about artist-led groups I went to part of the Outpost Summer Fayre Symposium (Norwich) yesterday (by chance actually, but let’s pretend I’m just well informed and ‘out-there’). Lots of energy and inspiration and falafels, but sorely […]
“Mémoires” του Guy Debord 1958, Paris, [Recent publication Allia, 2004, Paris] ADDED TO MY LIBRARY BY GEORGE ICAROS BABASSAKIS ICAROS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires
Sporting League: Game 26 Novia came back from a goal down against leaders Universo to subject their opponents to their second defeat of the season. Sporting Radio Pundit X: ‘That’s made things pretty interesting hasn’t it? I mean look, Universo […]
I have a yukky, sniffly cold and worse still, I have let myself be utterly consumed by projects with schools and community groups etc. For some bizarre reason this always happens to me at the end of the summer term. […]
Sam West meets Oksasenkatu. On Wednesday 18th May, our final day in Helsinki, we met with Jakko from the artists group Oksasenkatu to discuss the possibilities for studio exchanges between their group and studio holders at Spike Island. As we […]
The Swedish show looks amazing and we were really hoping for a good turnout on Sunday. Sunshine, happy people and a great exhibition meant we all had a party. Torbjorn and Eva stayed over for a few days and it […]
It’s been a week since I last wrote anything here and I feel like although this blog has been good to me things are changing and it may be time change tactics. I’m into Phase two of my MA and […]
images from recent work in show, after the show comes down. Having returned to the show after the hiatus of the opening I was less dissatisfied with the work, time and distance is so important and impossible to hurry. An […]
Richard writes to Ross Hi Ross, I am going to try and send some more work to you this week. I think we need to use the Abandoned house and work with that some more… it is a very interesting […]
Artists Talking Online Editor Andrew Bryant explores notions of commodity and compromise following a lively discussion at the June AIR Salon.
Clinton De Menezes, 'Passage Series: Container', Mixed media, 2010.
Giuliana Lazzerini, 'Summer Exhibition - Watercolours', Watercolours, Friday 1st July till Saturday 30th July. Photo: Gordon Giarchi. Courtesy: Giuliana Lazzerini. "York Walls" Original Watercolour painting on paper.
H.19 x W.28cm.
Marion Balback, 'ColourBands Poster'.
Phoebe Cummings, Flora, detail from the floor of the residency studio, Victoria & Albert Museum, unfired clay, 2010. Photo: Sylvain Deleu
In 2009 and selected by regional groups, twelve arts commissions worth £5.4 million were awarded for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Emily Speed takes a look at how some of the Artists Taking the Lead projects are progressing around the halfway point between commission announcements and their presentation.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Following successful integration into the 2010 London Design Festival, Origin, the Craft Council’s Contemporary Craft Fair, will be at Old Spitalfields Market 22-28 September in a purpose-built pavilion, presenting over 200 makers with work to sell.
A look at current projects and commissions taking place in unconventional settings.