The Sporting League: Game 14 Tempers flared in the Sporting League match between Yop Lane and Olby. The Yoppites were incensed at the referee adding an extra ten minutes injury time, blowing the whistle as soon as Olby scored. Yop […]
Thinking, this morning as I walked the dog, that this time next week I will be in Malaga, installing our work for the exhibition.Both excited and nervous. I’m listening to Spanish podcasts to brush up on my (very) rusty Spanish […]
The next idea evolved from thinking about this re-occurring notion of the public and the private. I wanted to take an existing collection of something that was very personal to me and plunge it into the public sphere. The audience/viewer […]
From Winternights to Summerfinding … and Summerfinding is fast approaching. Well, I don’t think anyone knows for certain what date or exact period was celebrated as Summerfinding in the Viking period, but modern heathens usually take it as May Eve/May […]
I first came across Peter Lanyon’s paintings over ten years ago. At the time I had a conundrum, I was looking at a career in the visual arts but my natural affinity was with moving in the world, not looking […]
Great, we have our first studio booking for a project starting in May and it looks as if the studio will be used for another project involving re-used timber in June. And before all that UCA architecture students may use […]
THE COCKFIGHT is up, and I think it was a fight, at any rate Comerford and Tanbouli appear to be exhausted. From Sunday to the early hours of Thursday morning they not only drew and coloured vast sheets of paper […]
I’m late writing my blog because I’ve been applying for a job that has resulted directly from my internship which I started today. Thank you cosmos for the break. Working was so pleasantly enjoyable, I hardly noticed the time go […]
Results of AIR’s survey of its members on the subject of access to art education; and a call for arts education to be accessible to all.
I was so happy I almost started painting again! Things have moved along with the project and I see a spring and summer ahead of me working in the Thornden Woods with tree surgeons, bushcraft experts, woodland wardens and Kent […]
Part 2 I’m relieved to feel I’m on a similar track in my own work with regards to self and context. Reading Sean Burke’s Death and Return of the Author, which I have mentioned before in my blog, was a […]
Part 1 I wonder sometimes if I will ever be able to learn enough (I already know the answer to that is, no). I just finished reading an essay by Rosalind Krauss called Line as Language. It was first published […]
International Award for Participatory Art http://www.artepartecipativa.it/e-pablo-helguera-il-vincitore-della-prima-edizione-del-premio-internazionale-di-arte-partecipativa Pablo Helguera has won the first edition of the International Award for Participatory Art. The Award, a biennial project promoted by the Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, is dedicated to artists with an […]
Great site addressing important questions: // Can socially engaged art do more harm than good? // Are there ethical responsibilities for social art? // Does socially engaged art have to do civic or public good? // Can there be transdisciplinary […]
