We tested the Old Theatre Deli tapas last night for the’Drink and Draw’ event to be held in September by Southwell Artists. The food was delicious and the service excellent. We needed somewhere to seat 100 people so the Deli […]
Phew! It has been another busy day, and two long traffic jammed bus rides to and from the SFAI new campus, although admittedly I fell asleep on both the way there and back. I have not yet had a bus […]
Ok just found out this blog is in the top 10 artists blogs on a-n so now I feel guilt ridden for not updating…sorry :( Thanks to those people who do take time to read this, I always seem to […]
‘They can’t freeze it ya know’ ‘mm what?’ ‘The polar bear, they won’t be able ter freeze it’ It’s 7.30pm and 17 seconds of silence had passed. I’d been watching a shrew, bemused by its fat little body tumbling amongst […]
Words. I have too many of them. I have little of significance to say in relation to myself this week. But the urge, (which I believe is an Irish condition), to spill them out nevertheless, remains with me. This week […]
Sporting League: Game 15 Universo Collunteen beat Pointeso in what proved to be a bad tempered affair. Pointeso boss: ‘We outplayed them and they outkicked us…simple as…’ The one goal to nil win moved the Collunteen seven points clear but […]
If you want an honest opinion about your artwork ask a teenager. Yesterday I asked myself whether the idea for something can be more interesting/important than the final object created so today I asked the students of Wey Valley School. […]
George John stewart, 'Jura-2'.
Ellen Bell, 'Tales from the Spare Room', Text & book covers, 2011. Photo: Peter Stone. Courtesy: The Artist.
Leanne Broadbent, 'Gretel', Mixed Media on Canvas. Based on the Grimm fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel.
How do artists go about delivering a very large commission to deadline? Emily Speed interviewed Shauna Richardson about her Artist Taking the Lead Commission: The Lionheart Project.
away from my tree and shack from the beach and the mangrove far from the wilderness and sanctuary I swear to you I will never make any boring art When we bought our home in Batchelor it was the tree, […]
There are many threads of conversation going on in my work at the moment. So much so it feels I’m juggling. My research is following a vaguely Deleuzian hit and miss / pick ‘n’ mix approach: I’m writing poetry and […]
Still thinking and mapping so no images of new experiments yet, busy winding up to start a new series. There’s such a lot to consider, materials, techniques, process and influences I went to the ‘The Shape of Things to Come: […]