For the past two weeks I have been struggling with my failure to secure any funding. The NAN Futurific bursary wasn’t successful, so I couldn’t go to Berlin to see my work there. I no longer feel able to keep […]
Went into the studio today and saw a load of pallets ready for the Design and Build workshop next week! It looks like an awful lot. The carpenter and builder were also there, as were the plumbers, installing a bath […]
Simon Liddiment begins his residency at Standpoint Simon Liddiment will be working in the studio at Standpoint from today (4th April) til 6th May. An exhibition of Simon’s work will take place on 27th April (gallery open 12-8) with an […]
Axel Antas: NEW TO NATURE at Rokeby Gallery, London.Exploring relationships between landscape and technology, nature and artifice * Chris Welsby on TECHNOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE “In my single screen films and single channel videos the mechanics of film and video interact […]
The degree show ad that Coleg Menai considered too racy for the degrees unedited readership:
Here we are back at the Rich Mix trying out the wire on its new spools. Still not quite right: they manage to unspool and get so tangled we have to cut the wire. I think the trick is to […]
As so often happens, making stuff has got me off the hook. Whenever I’ve felt I’m drifting, that things aren’t really coming together, I’ve just kept on making stuff. When you make, happy accidents can happen, you have a body […]
Etruscan temples and domestic houses had terracotta tiles and ‘heads’ as votive pieces along the roof edges. Votive clay statues were made in abundance in regions where the clay content was dense, throughout the region of Etruria- which extended from […]
there have been some updates @ www.ryan-hughes.co.uk have a look if you’ve got 5 mins spare!!! new work, new works-in-proress, C.V. update, slight reformat/design to some pages… been really busy making today as well – will post again later in […]
I spent some more time drawing the paper ‘nuggets’ today. I still don’t know why I am doing it, maybe I’m just filling time.
Now it’s my turn to conceive, organise and select a show for the Studio. I chose to work with collage, mash up and remix as it’s something I’ve always been interested in in art-cinema, and I have always loved collage […]
Being a recepient of a Grants for the Arts, I would like to share my thoughts as the project develops over the course of one year. ” A thousand Sheep” project includes a residency at River Bourne Community Farm, in […]
Studio Swap Residency – Day 1 The idea of proportion became more tangible then, and I was often tempted to involve proportion in my every creative attempt.Lau Chung Hang, “The Proportion of Rectangles” Amongst other amazing features of CAC’s residency […]
The Toulou guided tour lived up to and exceeded my expectations of what a Chinese coach tour should be. I think I’ll need an entry in itself to cover it, so I will save that for later. For now just […]
Hoorah – i have had a piece accepted for Orebro Open this summer. http://www.openart.se/ It was the work in progress, just the prod i needed/ carrot at the end of the stick to finish the piece. Sometimes I am more […]
Sarah Collicott and myself had another meeting with MDM props to review design and timetable for Southgate Artwork. MDM could only do prep work until mesh is delivered, which we are hoping to be beginning of May, that means that […]
Possibility holds potential hope and joy, a sweet quench for thirst.
Finally gotten an edited version of the piece I made down at PVA up online. Bit of a bugger to to this, as surprisingly enough, listening to it via the web is always going to be a much lesser experience […]
Am currently focussed on exploring unit on visual cultures and networking practices and finding it hard to come up with something both engaging in audience terms and relevent to these technologies. So far have devised a project around the idea […]
I’ve been thinking more about how the costs of video production affect the way its valued, and realized my last post had a pretty obvious omission from the discussion of low budget styles of filmmaking: the No Wave cinema of […]
Sporting League: Game 24 Leaders Bayerns made hard work of their match against Indentine, finally running out as two goals to one winners. Bayerns boss: I never doubted that we’d get a result here, but the opposition made it difficult […]
Yesterday I installed Bunting:LittleBlackFlags:GardenParty at showborough house sculpture garden. Once it was installed and I started reading over my notes on the work and began to write a descriptive text for the work I decided that I need to program […]
Never ever EVER cold cold turkey from antidepressants, it isn’t clever. I have been stumbling around like the denizens of the Norwich road: eyes pointing in various directions, speech slurred, bowels uncertain. Indeed I have begun to feel a certain […]
I made some drawings today. I was trying to figure out what element of my work was the work. The act, the photographs, the chewed objects, the drawings all contribute to the work but what is the artwork? Making the […]
Ten weeks in WCA studios 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KD73iTisc
