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Ivan Smith
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Ivan Smith

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"IN THE FRAME"
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“IN THE FRAME”

Lizzie Patel, '"IN THE FRAME"', Silk and wool fibre, 2009-2011. Photo: Andy Small. Within the environment of an historic, working watermill producing silk, a conceptual artist, worked collaboratively with a dancer & community groups exploring the imaginative potential of creating public art.
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"Once I Sat Upon a Promontory"
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“Once I Sat Upon a Promontory”

Pierre Diamantopoulo, '"Once I Sat Upon a Promontory"', Patinated stoneware, 2011. Photo: Artist. The notion of putting a Bottom on a pedestal appealed to my sense of the absurd. This refers to Oberon?s speech to Puck in Midsummer Night?s Dream where Bottom?s fate is sealed. The small-headed Tang Horse doesn?t belong in this story, though, somehow, it works.
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Untitled blog post from "Life after my MA"

Well I have handed my Dissertation in, Had a two glass of Cava to celebrate. formative Assessment tomorrow, Just getting things together. Still got one sculpture to finish by 26th which is no problem but will not finish for tomorrow. […]

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Untitled blog post from "Wanderings"

TRIALS AND TECHINICAL TRIBULATIONS! What a strange and frustrating week it’s been. Annoyingly random hours for Census Collecting (but nearly all finished now!); an imminent weekend house swap in order to dog/granny/house-sit; a couple of days on-and-off spent wondering what […]

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Untitled blog post from "10pm"

I’m 29 for the next two hours. Today my copy of a-n came through the post and in the Degrees 2011 section my article was published! According to one artist friend this makes me an establishing artist. I doubt if […]

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Untitled blog post from "Artist Residencies 2011"

Artist Rebecca Price has been working with musicians in preparation for her project at St George’s. She begins her residency blog: The Colour of Music, Rebecca Price The launch of ‘The Colour of Music’ is now less than a week […]

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Untitled blog post from "Group Therapy"

I was really thrilled when I received an email from Alexa Wright last month, introducing me to her current project: a photographic collection on the subject of mental health called A View From the Inside. Alexa stumbled across this blog […]

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Untitled blog post from "BSAD"

So even though, I have tonnes of work to be getting on with and even though I still haven’t got enough dust for my degree show, I have started new projects, organised more events and found myself drowning in more […]

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Untitled blog post from "Getting paid"

Crowdfunding revisited. After writing a guide to crowdfunding, I have been watching visual arts projects with interest to see how they’re faring. Here’s the guide if you wish to have a look: www.a-n.co.uk/p/100291/ It seems arts aren’t doing that well. […]

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Untitled blog post from "Learning to Paint"

I have work in a curated exhibition called “Beyond the Horizon” at Emrace Arts at the RA centre, Leicester. The exhibition is a collection of work from leading contemporary artists of the East Midlands whose work relates to landscape. The […]

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Untitled blog post from "The Yangtze River"

28th April 2011. First Day at Chongqing I finally arrived at Chongqing. This is my second trip to the Yangtze River. For the first trip, I went to Yi Chang, the downstream border city of the Three Gorges Dam (Chongqing […]

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Untitled blog post from "The Yangtze River"

29th Apil 2011 First real day with the river Today has been a full and important day. After months’ preparation, I finally had the opportunity to stroll and sit next to the river. In the morning I set off to […]

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Untitled blog post from "The Yangtze River"

1 May 2011 Today’s experience seems to be damaging for my emotional well-being. I went to downtown Chongqing with the intention to find the photo lab but even the policeman seemed to know nothing about their local area. So I […]

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Untitled blog post from "What The Matter Is"

Not sure where this is going, but listen to this: “A taxicab drives up outside the theater. A man gets out of the cab and draws a gun. Across Twenty-third Street another man, a pedestrian, stops, kneels by a streetlight, […]

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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"

I’m starting the last of the ‘big jobs’ on my flat. Over the last two months I’ve allowed myself to be totally consumed by decorating and other DIY. Having said that I went to a wonderful talk by Dorothy Cross […]

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Changing face of artists employment
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Changing face of artists’ employment

Explores the affect of the economic recession on the livelihoods of artists in terms of access to employment and career opportunities and raises concerns about how artists’ practice is likely to fare in this period of arts austerity. [HTML format]

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