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Adam Dix, The Advocates, 2010.
To play their part in the economic recovery, many workers who have retained employment are being asked to do more, for less.
According to Dany Louise, at the State of the Arts conference artists were given a platform by being squeezed onto a monitor in a corner of the coffee room where they had to shout to make themselves heard. A better […]
I would like to make the following comment to Mark Dean’s Debate, a-n Magazine, March 2011.
My letter, which was published in a-n Magazine (February 2011) regarding the ‘Partners in art’ article from November, ended with the question ‘do you want to know more?
Anna-Marie Gray scrutinises unpaid internships and questions their impact on one’s career prospects.
A selection of AIR members discuss what representation will look and feel like for artists, and suggest campaigns that AIR should prioritise. Downloadable PDF version [size 1 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
The Sporting League: game 18 The recent convention at The University Of Universo continued questioning the validity of the existence of The Sporting League. The next meeting of the great minds will feature ‘Is consciousness – a mere construct?’ Meanwhile, […]
MAKING PROGRESS Yesterday I enjoyed some of the pleasures on offer at Towner, our new partner in the Blue Monkey Network. In glorious Eastbourne spring sunshine I met with Matthew Rowe, Towner’s Artistic Director, on the cafe balcony with its […]
As you enter the space you find yourself in a narrow corridor. To your left is a dark space where a video triptych is playing, to your right the corridor is lined with framed drypoint prints and around the far […]
Considering the film still. To document my paper eating I will be using a matchbox pinhole with XP2 35mm film. Attached to the winding apparatus will be a knotted string which I will pull on to wind the camera on […]
Xiamen is treating me well and I’m head down hammering out the performance. The next will be on Saturday and I expect there to be some development upon the one in Beijing last week. There was some thing I noticed […]
Finally made my first set of promo boxes and sent them off yesterday. The aim of them is to promote a specific piece of work and to give people a mental nudge to keep me in mind for opportunities that […]
I’m going to pick up almost exactly where I left off, since, as usual, by the time I got to the end of my post I realised I had touched on something interesting (to me) but had run out of […]
This will be part of my end of degree show. Having problems deciding on how to present the work. A big issue is how I can use these separate threads in one exhibition!
I have a new haircut. All thanks to arts. Hair was cut whilst dry. And i thought I was going to wear the hat afterwards till early summer – but actually it is a pretty awesome haircut. Have a look […]
I haven’t posted in over a month, I think it’s because my momentum has slowed some what. I have completed the September challenge, not desperately successful, but completed none the less. I attempted to fly a kite for 2.5 hours […]
The art auction raised over £2500 for the Pakistani Flood appeal. Everything was sold. I don’t know who bought mine and what it went for. I think the organisers will have enough on sorting out payment and admin etc. so […]
Eating paper ‘A few months before Salvador Dali died I was at a gallery in San Francisco, who featured him. They had a video playing continually of him, rolling paper up in a ball and eating it. True. I was […]
Here are a few of Sam West‘s aims and ambitions: o to develop sustainable artist networks that function outside traditional economic frameworks, o to develop models of mutual peer support and provision which bypass the need for government funding, o […]
This Blog will chart the activities of Sam West as we research and develop sustainable artist-led activity in the UK and beyond. Sam West has just received a NAN Futurific! Bursary : which will help us to further develop artist […]